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Miss Joan Wilton,- Rangitumau, ii visiting Dannevirke. Miss Joyce Newland, of Porirua Mental Hospital staff, was the guesi of Miss Beryl Newland (Masterton) and Mrs H. Peters (Lansdowne) during the weekend. Mrs E. T. AV. Love, Ariki-elect oi Rarotonga, who will leave New Zealand next week for Rarotonga, was farewelled at the last meeting of the New Zealand Women Writers’ and Artists’ Society, Wellington. “The thing that interests me most about women in the services is that they love drill; there is nothing they like better than being put on the square to drill under a real hard sergeant-major,’’ said Lieut.-General Sir Guy Williams, military adviser tc the New Zealand Government, in an address to the New Zealand Club in Wellington yesterday on conditions of life in England during the war. For women in the army, said General Williams. saluting had at first been voluntary. It was found that the young, good-looking subaltern got a salute, but the older officer, anxious to get a salute so that he could return it, received none. So it was made compulsory.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1941, Page 2
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180PERSONAL ITEMS Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1941, Page 2
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