WOMEN'S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 134, 7 May 1940, Page 9

WOMEN'S WORLD

Miss Iv. S. Galbraith is a Palmerston North visitor to Wellington. Mrs Leslie Bird, of Christchurch, is staying with her parents, Mr and Mrs A. M. Spilmaii; of Main Street.

Mrs E. L. Christian has returned to Palmerston'North after a lengthy visit to Wellington and Masterton. A London message states that Miss Lucy Lopdell, of Hamilton, is attached to the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force as a motor transjxirt driver.

Mr D. Sutherland and Miss M. Sutherland, accompanied by their parents, were Wanganui visitors to Wellington to attend the closing ceremonies of the Exhibition.

Mrs C. R. Luke, of Victoria Avenue, is visiting Dunedin for the capping ceremony at Otago University, when her daughter, Mis* Helen Luke, will receive her B.H.Sc. degree. Miss Luke is a dietitian at the Wellington Hospital. Miss Audrey Black, of the Canterbury School of Art, is spending the vacation with her parents, Mr and Mrs W. G. Black, of Argyle Avenue. Miss C. Black is the guest of the Swiss Consul, Dr. Schmid, and Mis Schmid, ot Wellington.

Mr and Mrs A. Grigor, of Fitchett Street, have had staying with them their daughter, Mrs Kingsley Brown, and her husband, of Pukekohe, who were returning from Wellington, and their niece, Mrs H. Anderson, of Stirling, Southland, on her way to and from Auckland

Mrs M. H. Oram, of Feat.hcrston Street, attended the capping ceremonies at Canterbury College, when Miss Margarette Oram received her B.A. degree. Mr« Oram is at present in Wellington and Miss Oram is remaining in Christchurch till the end of the week.

The death has occurred of one of the oldest residents at Te Mata, near Raglan, Mrs. Eliza Mold, in her 94th year. Arriving from Oxfordshire in 1878, Mr Mold joined the armed constabulary and, after the force was disbanded. took up land at Te Mata. Mrs Mold is survived by five daughters and two sons, and there are 40 grand--children and 32 great-grandchildren.

Mrs Louisa Cockburn, of Meeanee, whose death occurred in the Napier Hospital on Sunday at the age of 82 years, was one of the earliest settlers in the Gisborne district, and went to Hawke’s Bay nearly 30 years ago. She came to New Zealand from London in 1870, arriving at Gisborne where she shared the anxieties of raids by Te Ivooti and his followers.

Mrs Agnes Richards, who passed away recently at Wanganui at the age of 78, was the daughter of a very early pioneering family. Her father, Mr William Tannahill, left the Clyde on October 31, 1839 for Port Nicholson in the Bengal Merchant, and arrived six weeks after Christmas, 1840. He married Miss Elizabeth Dougal, of Glen Park, Scotland, whose father was Laird Andrew Dougal, of Glasgow. Miss Dougal had also travelled to New Zealand on the same boat.

A New Zealand girl, Miss Margaret Selby, of Greendale, Canterbury, has been described _to the Queen as “an outstanding example of what a Land Army volunteer sboijld be.” She is working on a 1200-acre farm at Tlietford, in Norfolk, states an overseas correspondent. Miss Selby is well acquainted with farm life, as she is a farmer’s daughter. The Queen talked to Miss Selby when she took tea with 100 Land Army girls from all ports of Britain. The New Zealander was presented by the Dowager Lady Scafield.

(By “Nanette.”)