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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6808, 11 January 1929, Page 11

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Mrs. R. A. Mace, of Ruawai, is at present the guest of Mrs. McDonald, College Street, Palmerston North. Mrs. Maurice Millar, Palmerston North, is spending a holiday at Paraparaumu. Mrs. H. G. Bagnall, Te Awe Awe Street, Palmerston North, is visiting Waimarama. Miss Cora Hubbard, Pahiatua, is staying in Masterton, where she is the guest of Mrs. John Andrew. The engagement is announced of Betty, second daughter of Mr and Mre. H. T. Allen, of Courtehay Street, New Plymouth, to John Joseph, (Jack), eldest son of Mr and Mrs. T. Norris, of Linton Street, Palmerston North. Mr and Mrs Frederick Henwood, well known in tho Waikato, have celebrated their golden wedding. They were married in Wanganui. Mr Henwood’s father arrived at New Plymouth in 1840 in the ship William Bryant. He afterwards married and had a large family, of which Mr Frederick Henwood, who is 74 years of age, is the youngest. Mrs Henwood was fomerly Miss Caroline Lester. After their marriage Mr and Mrs Henwood lived in various parts of Taranaki, Manawatu and the Bay of Plenty. They went to Waikato 25 years ago, and have been farming since. They have seven children, and there are 30 grandchildren.

One of Dunedin’s happiest children last week was Doris McLeod, of ID Bradshaw Street, says the “Dunodin Star.” When the Byrd Antarctic ships were in Dunedin, her imagination was aroused by the romance of the expedition. On the morning the ship sailed the little girl presented Captain Gustave Brown ,of the Eleanor Bbling, with a lucky cat ornament, and a later mail brought her an imposing envelope with the postal mark of the Antarctica floating post office, j From lattitude 68.10, longtitude 78, in the Ross Sea, Captain Brown penned a note wishing the youthful wellwisher a Merry Christmas and a happy New Yeai - , with greetings from the bottom of the world. Doris is also proud of the fact that Commander Byrd himself accepted a horseshoe just as tho City of New York left Dunedin. “He shook me by* the hand and said: “Bless your dear litt-lo heart,” said Doris when relating the incident.