PERSONAL

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 3233, 3 July 1928, Page 4

PERSONAL

Miss -Ella Chamberlain, Grove," Leeston, returned on Saturday from a holiday spent in the Itforth Island.

Airs A. K. Overton, of Taihape (fornierely Miss Edith Hartnell, of Lees- - ton) is visiting relatives in Canterbury and is at present staying.with Mr and Mrs G. HartneH, Culverden.

Mr 'W. R. Donald, of Ivwell, who was taken^ill a fortnight ago, was conveyed to the Christchurch Hospital' on Saturday for special treatment. He is making satisfactory progress and it is hoped that before long he will be. able to get about again.

The latest news concerning Mr J. Nixon, who is on a health trip to NewSouth Wales, is that he is not being troubled so much -with asthma as formerly and is able to take a little exercise every day. .Hopes are entertained that he will soon be well enough to . journey to Queensland, where .the climate is much more to his liking.

Professor W. F. Osborne, of the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, who was in Leeston on Monday, told a Christchurch newspaper man that he was much interested in a visit he had made to one of the open-air' schools in Canterbury. "It is apparent that the balmy New Zealand climate lends itself to experiment much better than our - rigorous Canadian ■ climate would, *' he said.

There was a good attendance of par- ', . ents and pupils at the, Papanui School on Friday afternoon, when presentations were made to Mr T. A., Gates,^Ar* who has been appointed headmaster of the Wharenui School. He is .a brother of Mrs L. B. Coe, of Irwell, and an old pupil of the v Southbridgey- School, where his father was headmaster for many, years. Mr F. W. Sisson, chairman of the committee, , presented, him with a wallet of notes. Mr Gates

was also the recipient of & brief bag, a pair of motor gloves, an eleetrie-Horch;

and a reading lamp, from the pupils

and staff.

A Hokitika message^ states that at a- " well attended gathering at the Towi* Hall, the Mayor and Mayoress (Mr and ' Mrs G. A. Pony), were* entertained,, / and presented with a silver cradle in honour of the birth of their son. Th^W^ Deputy-Mayor (Mr Jeffries), who pipe- =.' sided, referred td the-splendid :service J^ rondered to the community by Mt. j Perry daring the seventeen years he

has been Mayor. Mrs Perry has identified, herself with the Plunket Societyand the Girl Guides' movement, and, as the wife of the* Chief Magistrate, has given a lead' of good citizenship and has endeared herself to the people. Spoeehes wove maUc by the county - chairman and other prominent citi- ' zens. Mrs Pony was formerly -. Miss Irene Laycock, daughter of the late '? Rev. W. Layeoek, who spent five years as superintendent of- the Leeston Metliodist circuit. For some time Mrs. -: .Perry was a teacher in the secondary • J department of the Southbridge School.