WDODVILLE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 231, 30 August 1937, Page 11

WDODVILLE.

AVOODVILLE, Aug. 28. Air and Airs T. L. Farmer, of Auckland, are visiting AVoodville. Mr Farmer was formerly on the teaching staff of the AA’oodville School. A gloom was cast over the district when it became known that Airs Alargaret Agnes Cairns, wife of Air Robert Cairns, of AVbodvillfe, had passed away at a Pahiatua private hospital. Her health had not been 'occasioning any serious anxiety; and her demise ca.ine as a sudden shock. As a member of a family widely known and highly resoected in the district, the late Mrs Cairns was a loyal and devoted supporter of the Presbyterian Church, her work being carried on unselfishly and unobtrusively. Besides her husband, those'left to mourn their loss are a daughter, AVinifred, and two sons, Robert and John. The interment took place yesterday at the AVoodville cemetery, the service being conducted by Rev. J. 11. Boyd. ’ The chairman of the AAoodlaiuls Road school (Mr AV. Bowman) announced to-day that word had been re " ceived from the Hawke’s Bay Education Board that the matter of consolidation' the school with the AVoodville School had been deferred until a later The annual meeting of the AVoodville Royal Horticultural Society was held recently when the president (Air o. Turnbull) presided over a fair attendance. The election of officers resulted : —Patron, Air T. F. Fountaine; president. Air S. Turnbull; "Vicepresidents, Messrs H. Mills, J. Tan ner and B. Eddes, Alesdames H.. Giles and 11. L. James; secretary Mr P E. Anslow; auditor, Air L. J. Whittington. -