Personal

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6626, 13 August 1931, Page 9

Personal

Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Lyon, of Woodville, were recent visitors to Wanganui. Miss Millington has returned to Lower Hutt after spending a fortnight in Palmerston North. Mrs. Harold Egley, of Palmerston North, is visiting her parents, Mr .and Mrs. J. Calver, Aramoho. Mrs. D. C. Collins, South Featherston, is visiting her mother, Mrs. L. A. Abraham, Park Road, Palmerston North. Mrs. (Oliver, wife of the late Rev. J. Oliver, has recovered sufficiently from a recent severe operation in hospital to return to her home, her friends will be pleased to know. Miss Roma McClure, of Foil ding, while attending a skating gathering in Palmerston North on Tuesday evening, had the misfortune to fall and fracture her arm. Her many friends will wish her a speedy recovery.

Miss Hetherington and Mr. Carabus, of the Education Department, are at present carrying out the annual inspection at the Palmerston North Girls’ High School in connection with the awarding of free places.

At Ascot the new fashion for flower accessories was greatly in evidence. Wreaths of fresh roses were twined gracefully round shady straw hats, while tiny posies made straw berets even more festive. One fair race-goer carried a muff composed entirely of red rosebuds, and another wore a necklace of forget-me-nots to match her blue dress.

Mrs.Anno Thomson, whose death occurred at Rongokokako last week at the age of 84 years, was one of the first settlors who carved a home for themselves out of the Forty Mile Bush. The late Mrs. Thomson was born in Denmark, and was one of the band of immigrants who came out to the colony in the ship Halcione. She married Mr. Peter Thomson on her arrival at Wellington. After being employed ox the Pharazyn estate and later on tho Audrea Corbin property, they joined a party in 1875 which went into tho Forty Mile Bush to Mauriceville. They conducted a boardinghouse thoro for a period, but in 1886 the lure of the bust caught them, and in spite of the hardships of pioneering they went north to where tlie township of Eketahuna was being established. When the bush at Parkvillo was felled they built there, and Mrs. Thomson conducted a maternity home for many years. Since the death of her husband about 16 years ago Mrs. Thomson had been residing with her children. She is survived by a family of one son, Mr. T. Thomson, of To Kuiti, and six daughters, Mrs. B. Morriss, Mrs. A. Smith, Palmerston North, Mrs. Cole, Lower Hutt, Mrs. B. Sparkman (Hastings), Mrs. T, Keen, Tauranga, and Mrs. R. Doney, Eketahuna.