OPAWA NOTES.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19669, 12 July 1929, Page 9

OPAWA NOTES.

Personal. Mr C. M. Ollivier, of Murray-Aynsley Hill, left for the North Island on Moaday evening. Appreciation has been, expressed by Mrs It. 11. Turner, Aynsley terrace, who baa boon confined to her bed through illness, of the many expressions of goodwill from friends. Opawa Telephone Box. la response to the requests of the Opawa Uurgesses' Association and the Behool Committee, the Post and Telegraph Department has moved the telephone box from the corner of Opawa bridge and Ford road, and has placed It st the corner of Opawa road and liehardson terrace. This does not KMt with the wishes of the Burgesses' Amociation, which asked that the telephono bo moved near the shopping area, Mit was frequently out of order through being tampered with. A member of the Association stated that it *m fully expected the Department would meet its wishes and place the boi where it would be undfer observation. "The Department is very pigheaded," he concluded. Clarendon Terrace. It is understood that the portion of CUr«&don terrace between the Opawa Wdg and tho railway bridge, where til footpath in very narrow, is to be Wtisftd and screened by the Heathcote County Council. Oolden Wedding. A thanksgiving service attended by »*«r,7o people was held in the Opawa iitlodiat Church on Tuesday to celetete tho golden wedding of Mr and Mt» F. Selwyn, Opawa road, very old Undents of the district. Mrs T. W. *«it presided at the organ. A social **» held later in the schoolroom, which *W furnished as a drawing room. The towt of the "Bride and Bridegroom *»» propose. by Canon Hamilton and to by Mr Will Selwyn, of ®Msiii]l street, liadlev.

School Committee. Tlie monthly meeting of the Opawa ®ciwjol Committee was held 011 Tuesday last. Present: Messrs T. W. "•rt (chairman \ J. H. Hepburn, E. R. J. K. Baker, W. A. Schenkel, I- Walton, E. O. Barrett, L. J. and W. G. P. Ingley (secreJWJ). The Education Board advised £3l had been paid into the com®"Wi account at the bank. It was ****imotuly agreed to support the * H 11 forwar <icd by the Canterbury wmjol Committees' Association that Government be asked to provide facilities for dental treatment ■ ue B,tate seliools betore extending * Privilege to private sehools. '-The ■™«t*ry vns authorised to procure a J?PPv of paper towels for the use of 1».,4 c hih.ren. A report from the faster stated that the net pro- »«.. la recent fancy dress social tain?* a PP T< >ximatelv 8 * J^c " .JJ totalling £3O 15s Sd were fOS " payment. It was agreed to T*w a Pplication to the Canterbury l,ij Association for two traffic oards to erected in the «f the school British Seamen's Guild. ® mi " presided at the i> it'• of the Opawa branch S %, ." r itish Seamen's Guild. There : «' >roßent; Mesdamea Morgan, WffL Tait . Esson, Tulloch, CopeWood, and Polhill. Ar*Xrtt!!>» lor concert to be held lft.fi 1 !® 11 July were left to Mrs •••" were extended Mrs G. J. Smith, to "tiding, who recently cele- * Joldea wedding.

Maori Mission Party. A party of three young Maori girls, a young chief, and a lad from Paerata Wesley College, South Auckland, under Sister Nicholls, of the Methodist Maori Mission, gave an interesting programme of hakas, poi dances, instrumental and vocal items at the Opawa Methodist Church. Features of the entertainment were the stone age games.