LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 25 May 1932, Page 9

LOCAL AND PERSONAL

•Mrs. Winston Young, Palmerston North, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Horsburgh, of Hawera, returned home to-day.

At the beginning of the meeting of the Waimate West. County- Council today, the chairman, Cr- E. Long, was complimented by Or. T. A. Bridge on the results of the election at which he and other sitting members were returned. The chairman reciprocated in friendly greeting and hoped that all -would work together as before in the interests of the district.

A vote of sympathy was passed with Cr. T. A. Bridge m the recent death of his brother-in-law, Mr William Murray, an old settler in the province, was passed by the Waimate West 'County Council at its meeting at Manaia to-day. A tribute was paid by Cr. E. Long at the Waimate West County Council meeting at Manaia to-day to the fine work done for the unemployed by Mr J. E. Campbell, who had acted voluntarily as organiser for the scheme in Hawera.

A position, probably unique in local body work, was mentioned by 'Or. 00. Long at the Waimate West County Council meeting to-day, when he said that all the men sitting round the council table had been in the district over 40 years or had been born in the district, Or. H. 11. Buxton, he added, had been in the district for over twentyfive years. Last year before his election, every councillor had been 40 years or more in the district.