FOXTON.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 70, 20 February 1939, Page 5

FOXTON.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) FOXTON, Feb. 17.

Yesterday morning', shortly before 8 o’clock, the Fire Brigade received a call to the property of Mr Corley, in Thynnc Street, where the wash-house had caught alight. Tho outbreak was extinguished without much trouble but the insido of the building was badly charred.. Shortly after 5 p.in. another call was received, this time to a grass fire which broke out at tho corner of Mr R. F. Stokes’s residence and the school sections in Duncan Street. The outbreak was also soon got under control. Mr and Mrs R. Read leave I 1 oxtoii . tomorrow on a motor camping trip to Tauranga. Mrs T. V. Crottv is on a holiday visit to Auckland. Mr T. Crotty is visiting the Sounds on a fishing expedition and during his absence he is being relieved by Mr Inkpen, of Marton. Mr R. Murray, of the staff of the local branch of the Bank of New Zealand, is spending his anntiav , leave in Wellington. Misses M. anil R. Sim, of Himatangi, recently returned homo . from an extensive tour of the South Island, j Miss Hazel Hinds is on a holiday visit to j Wanganui. Miss Norali Sweeny, of Gis- j borne, is spending a holiday with her aunt. 1 Mrs .T. C. MoLaughlan. The friends of. Miss H. Christensen will regret to learn that she is an inmate of a privale hospital in Palmerston North. Mrs E. Healey, of Sydney, is the guest of Mr and Mrs A. P. ( Easton. Mr and Mrs S. I. Walden left to- | day on a motor trip to Rotorua and Tauranga. Mrs H. Cornfoot, of Halcombe, is. visiting her daughter, Mrs W. -J. Ross, of ( “Poplar,” Moutoa, , I At a meeting of the members of t.li*■ t Foxton Brownie Committee Mrs E. W. Btirgin tendered her rcsigntion from tin. position of Brown Owl of the Brownie Pack, the rosignaion being accepted with regret.. Eulogistic reference was made to . the influence Mrs Burgin had bad over flic j children and to the excellent progress made I by the pack under her understanding and . efficient leadership. At tho monthly meeting of the Foxton j Women's Institute, Mrs W. R. McKenzie I was the winner of a competition for a pair . of stockings, and another competition was ! won by Mrs Sutherland. It wa-s decided, to I enter a float in the procession for Physical : Fitness Week. Advice was received that ; Mrs Paterson, of Pahiatua. will speak on j the subject “World Peace” at tiic April j meeting of the institute. A most interest-j ing talk and demonstration on homo, do- | corating was given by Mr J. Macdonald.