PERSONAL

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4566, 8 November 1937, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr. H. Leydon spent the week-end in Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Coutts spent the week-end in New Plymouth.

Mrs. H. C. Evans left to-day to take up her residence in Tauranga

Misses E. Hall and M. Irvine spent the week-end in Otorohanga.

Mr. J. Tutty was a week-end visitor to Hamilton.

Misses M. Hart and F. Peterson spent the week-end in Te Aroha.

Mrs. Gorrie, of Wellington, is the guest of her niece, Mrs. J. Hobson, of Pio Pio,'

Miss V. M. Shields, of Hamilton, is at present relieving Miss Conway Jones at the local branch of the Public Trust Office.

• Mrs. F. W. Dawson and. Miss V. Dawson, of New Plymouth, have left to visit Pio Pio, the King Country and the Waikato.

At a tennis dance held in the Parish Hall on Saturday evening the Monte Carlo was won by Mr. R. Davison and Miss Teasdale. O’Connell’s Band supplied the music and a very enjoyable time was spent by the large crowd of dancers.

A striking tribute to the late Major Miles was paid last Saturday by Mr. C. Hotson, president of the King Country High School Sports Association, as he presented the Major Miles Cup to R. Findlay, the outstanding athlete at the sports held last Saturday. This Cup, competed for the first time at Saturday’s sports, had been presented by an anonymous donor, and Mr. Hotson said he could think of no better manner in which to honour the memory of a youth who was outstanding in both his athletic and scholastic accomplishments, and carried his success with a modesty that was an object lesson to all. It was particularly appropriate that the Cup should be won by a boy who had known Major Miles personally, and had met him on the sporting field on many occasions. The Cup was presented to Findlay by Mrs. Miles.

At the annual sports meeting of the New Plymouth High School held on Saturday, the Te Kuiti boys put up a very creditable performance. Warren Coutts won his heat and finished fourth of nine starters in the final of the 100 yards Junior Cup, won the 880 yards Junior Handicap, gained second place in the 440 yards Junior Handicap, won his heat and finished a close second to the junior champion, Kjestrup, in the 120 yards hurdles, which was won in record time. Rex Cato finished first in his heat of the 150 yards and second in his heat of the 220 yards. Kjestrup, of Awakino, was easily the junior champion of the day, having clipped three-fifths of a second off the previous record of 11 l-sth in the 100 yards, which had stood unbroken since 1914. He also won the junior long jump with a magnificent jump of 20ft. B%ins., breaking the previous record by Ift. lin. He won the junior high jump, clearing sft. H in.