GOLDEN WEDDING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 307, 24 November 1934, Page 4

GOLDEN WEDDING.

MR AND MRS H. PRYCE.

Mr and Mrs Herbert Pryce, two original settlers of the Manchester Block at Halcombe, celebrated their golden wedding last week, the occasion being marked by a gathering of their family and grandchildren, together with the grandchildren of Mrs Bryce's sister, Mrs G. Hare, of Cheltenham. The gathering was a complete family reunion, no member being absent.

Mrs Pryco and her sister are the daughters of the late Mr Edmund Jennins, of Awulmri, and later of Waitara. The daughters of the marriage of Mr and Mrs Pryce are Mrs Horace Hewitt, of Ngakouka, Carterton, who also farms on her own account in the Weber district, and Miss Winifred Pryce, who resides with her parents and has a farm of her own in. the Halcome district.

Sir Pryce, who is a member of an old Montgomeryshire family, was educated at Rugby under Dr Temple, and was an inmate of the School House, the scene of the classical story of “Tom Brown’s Schooldays,” as was the adjoining “close” of the incident which originated the distinguishing feature in Rugby football; and lie was a School

House “cap.” He landed at Napier in October, 1874, and lias therefore passed his diamond jubilee as a New Zealand colonist. He took up the land where the old family home is situated in January, 1878, when it was a piece of roadless standing bush, and lias lived on it ever since. The only son was an undergraduate at Jesus College, Cambridge University, when war was declared and was gazetted to a temporary commission in the Royal Field Artillery, with which arm lie served throughout the war. He was awarded the Military Cross for bravery and presence of mind in the battle of the Somme. Ho was retired with the honorary rank of captain in the 11.F.A. On Iris return to his family, without any known outside suggestion, he was accorded a typical reception by the Maoris on the reserve adjoining his lather’s land, who also presented him with a handsomely framed address of welcome in both languages. Ho is married and is farming in the Rata district.