PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 23 June 1923, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

I t oq^l °f ales wUI celebrate his 29th birthday to-day. . M£: g- *>'• Grocott, Chief. Postmaster at Wellington, is voluntarily retirine: alter nearly 42 years' service. He entered, the department as a message boy at Ohnstehurch in 1881. Next week tie commences an extended period of annual leave. ' m$h r- a^^ rf- Jf Sulabei^er, of the Eitham district, celebrated their golden WGdding on Wednesday. They" were married at Launoeston, Tasmania, in the ysar 1873. About 70 relatives and tnends assembled in Mtham on Thursday to celebrate the event. Mr 'Phil- . lips, a relative, who was present, in the course ot some reminiscences of the old days, said that things were vastly different 50 years ago. Then they were i obliged to travel 17 miles to reach his fathers place. One horse was used and Mrs. Phillips would ride for a couple of miles and Ihen he would ride so that one was on foot and the other on horseback alternatively. No roads then, but bush, and one was thankful ir he found the locality he was bound for When visiting neighbours he t>?mi- lnck"^back son, and Mrs Phillips would also carry a child in her arms. Boys and girls nowadays talked ot hard times, yet at the same time they moved round in motor-oars and aaa other luxuries undreamt of fifty years ago. He thought that in having things too good the present generation were likely to be spoiled — Argus.