PERSONAL.
Mr E. A. Coekroft attended a ma-chine-gunners’ reunion, at Timaru on Saturday.
Mr R. J>. Leith, of the staff of the Timvald , railway station, has been transferred to Mount Somers.
A motion of sympathy with Mr R. M. Dunlop in his illness was passed at the annual meeting of the Ashburton Bowling Club on Saturday evening.
Mr G. H. jD. Hefford, who has been on holiday in. the Auckland province since the sinking, of the Niagara, has returned to Ashburton. Mr W. J. Sparrow, who was accompanying him, has gone to Rotorua and does net intend to return to Ashburton till toward the end of August.
The average attendance at a country school is usually an accurate gaime of the weather. At one country school in Mid-Canterbury in the senior department for a week not a single pupil was absent. This, of course, is put down to the remarkably mild winter and according to the headmaster must be a record which has net- been eclipsed for many’ a day.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 249, 29 July 1940, Page 4
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