RANGITIKEI

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 166, 14 June 1929, Page 2

RANGITIKEI

WEDDING. (From Our Own Correspondent.) AIARTON, June 13. The Bonner —Mcßcth wedding which took place in the chapel of Wanganui Collegiate School yesterday was of considerable interest to Rangitikei and the adjacent count}' of Kiwitea. The bride, Lorraine (Jill) Bonner, only daughter of Mr and Mrs G. F. Bonner. Upper Kawhatau, Mangaweka, wore a frock of ivory faillo silk over shell pink, with close-fitting, high-waifited bodice, deep yoke and long, tight-fitting sleeves of ivory tulle, embroidered in silver. The full bouffant skirt, trimmed with large motifs, was gathered in at tho waist and fell in graceful uneven lines almost touching the floor at the back. Her veil of soft chantille lace, fell into a train. She carried a bouquet of pale pink carnations and freesias. She was attended by Misses Molly Harden and

Edna Greenwood, of Wanganui, who wore picturesque dresses of golden charmaline, with amber touches. The bridegroom, Mr Frederick Sidwcll Mcßeth, only son of Mrs Mcßeth and tho late Mr J. H. Mcßeth, of Kiwitea, had Mr Alan Hobson, of Feilding, as best man, and Mr Basil Johnstone, Of Feilding, as groomsman. Rev. C. F. Pierce officiated. Mrs G. F. Bonner, the bride’s mother, afterwards received the guests at the Victoria League rooms, among those present being: Mrs and Miss Mcßeth, Airs M. Deighton and the Misses Deighton (3), Mr T. H. Battle, Mr and Mrs C. Stewart (Tailiape). Mr and Mrs Mackay Turnbull (Mangaweka), Mr and Mrs Gordon Mcßeth, Dr. and Mrs Baird, Mr and Mrs R. Brown, Mrs Cleland, Miss Alexander, Captain and Mrs White, Mrs A. G. Anderson and Misses Anderson (2), Mrs Greenwood, Mrs Cowry (Feilding); Mr and Mrs Lawson, Mrs Brainiey, Mr and Mrs J. Graham, Mr and Mrs F. E. Wilson, Miss E. Wilson, Mr and Mrs Pail-man, Miss Bailey, Mr and Mrs Green, Mr W. Stewart, Mr and Mrs Watson (all of Mangaweka); Mr and Mrs McLean, Mr and Mrs D. Stewart Mr and Mrs J. Bull, Mrs C. McManaway, Mrs H. McManaway (all of Hunterville), Mr and Mrs A. G. Fitzherbert (Marton), Miss M. Ross, Misses K. and M. Johnston, Mr and Mrs T. R. Craine, Mr and Mrs S. J. Shand, Miss Banks. Miss Pratt, Mrs J. J. Bryce, Mrs E. Short and Miss Bryce (all of F'cilding). RUGBY FOOTBALL. The leading teams in the Rangitikei competitions are: Rata (senor), Athletic and Hunterville (juniors) and Athletic (thirds). Matches set down for Saturday next arc: Marton 0.8. seniors v. Hunterville, at Marton; Bulls v. Athletic at Bulls; also two third and one fourth grade match. Wednesday’s junior football matches in Rangitikei resulted : —Old Boys 8 v. Athletic 5; Hunterville 25 v. Ohingaiti 12; Rata 8 v. Bulls 0. PERSONAL. Nurse W. Gray, the Plunket nurse in the Taihape-Hunterville district, was taken ill while in Hunterville on Tuesday. A surprise party was given on Monday evening to Miss E. A. Healey, only daughter of Mrs R. Healey, of Taihape, and Mr W. 0. Adair, of Taihape, who are shortly to be married. A social evening was hold in tho Nurses’ Home of the Taihape Public Hospital in honour of Nurses E. Holstein, J. Livingstone. E. Horn, A. Lilley and M. Lyon, all of whom were successful at tho recent nurses’ examinations in Wanganui. Tho matron, Misa E. M. Taylor, acted as hostess. Tho death occurred at Papatoetoe last week, of Mr Arthur Herbert O’Loughlen, aged 65, who was the first stationmaster at Marton Junction. Deceased had attained the position of district traffic manager at Auckland before he retired in 1922.

A quiet but pretty wedding was solemnised at St. Francis’s Church the other day, when eVra Leonora, second daughter of Mr and Mrs Windlcburn (Crofton) was united in matrimony to Hugh Patrick, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Bonar, Ballymena, Ireland. : Mr A. P. Lee, manager of tho Rata co-operative dairy factory, whose produce carried off supremo awards at tho Waikato Show last week, has been appointed manager of the lvia Ora Co-operative Dairy Company, Gisborne. Miss P. Blackburn, assistant at Hunterville High School, has relinquished that appointment to take up duty at Wanganui Girls’ College. Dr. J. M. Warren, who died at Auckland in his 77th year on Sunday last, was well known in ' Marton where ho carried on the practice of his profession for many years. He retired in 1925. A widow and two sons survive. Miss Simpson and Mesdames D. Simpson, W. F. Stevens and D. J. Willis have been appointed the Marton delegates to the conference of the Women’s Division (Farmers’ Union) in Wellington in July. GENERAL. Hunterville, Turakina, Mount View, Greatford, Marton and Marton Junction schools have formed a baseball and Rugby league. Both games aro played simultaneously every Friday. Tho recently-revived Taihape branch ot the Returned Soldiers’ Association now has a membership of 120. A minor war is on between tho Taihape Rugby Union and tho Borough Council over tho latter’s attitude towards grandstand proceeds at football matches. As a result, only eight persons patronised tho stand last Saturday. At present the council takes the whole of tho stand proceeds. Tentative plans for the erection of a grandstand in Marton Park as commemorating tho jubilee of tho borough, which falls this year, have been laid beforo tho Borough Council. Tho council is meeting £3OO of tho £ISOO required, and the Rugby Union £4OO. This leaves £BOO to bo raised by means of a carnival or some other effort. The A. and P. Association, which uses the park on one day each year for its show, has declined to assist. Marton Borough Council has renewed the grant of £55 annually to the Volunteer Firo Brigade. Tho County Council subsidy of £lO per annum has been stopped for some years and councillors show no disposition to renew it. Considerable improvements to tho Marton Town Hall liavo been effected by the municipal pictures committee, the latest addition being electric heating. Tho pictures last financial year (tho first year of the municipal enterprise) showed a substantial profit. Steps are being taken to replace many of the books in tho Marton Library (a Carnegie institution). A sum of £4O has been voted by the Borough Council for tho purpose. The annual ball of the Marton A. and P. Association takes place on June 28. Tho committee has engaged a New Plymouth orchestra for the occasion, it being held that there is insufficient local talent of tho kind.

Prior to the rains which foil during tho last two days, tho weather was extremely dry for this period of the year. One local resident stated that ho had never seen tho streams so dry in June. There is a fair inquiry for farm lands in this district at present, and several blocks of first-class land suitable for both dairying and mixed farming have changed hands at prices ranging from £37 to £42 per aero. Ono farm within five miles ol Marton changed hands three times within the last month, tho first and second purchasers turning over their bargains without even taking full possession.