Golden Wedding

Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7473, 25 May 1934, Page 2

Golden Wedding

AIR AND AIRS F. S. GUY

A notice announcing the marriage of Harriet Goldsmith, only daughter of the late Mr and Mrs E. Goldsmith, to F. S. Guy at Timaru on May 24, ISS4, appears in to-day’s issue of tlio Times. At Feilding yesterday Mr and Airs Guy and their children gathored together for tho golden wedding celebration. A largo circlo of friends in all parts of Feilding and district and even farther afield will join in extending congratulations to the celebrants. Mr Guy has led an active life in New Zealand since he came out from Bredford, in Devon (where he was born in 1557), in the sailing ship Marlborough in 1577. Mrs Guy is a native of Battersea, Surrey, and came out with her parents in tho ship Mermaid in 1867. Leaving a job at Spriugston, near Christchurch, Air Guy went down to Timaru, married, and later became a storekeeper at Beaconsfiold, Pareora, South Canterbury. Some years later he sold out and came to the North Island, settling at Birmingham, now Kimbolton, where he bought out Mr R. Burno’s butchery. The following years the family), moved again and built a house and the first store and post office at Apiti, the building material having to be packed in on horses. Mr Guy next sold out the business and became a sawmiller. In 1892 Mr Guy was appointed a Justice of the Peace. Mr and Mrs Guy and thenfamily took a keen interest in church work, and in .1893 had the pleasure of seeing the erection of a Methodist Church at Apiti. Mr Guy has been a local preacher for GO years. Returning from a trip to England in 1904, he took up farming, and 13 years later sold out to enjoy a well-earned retirement in Feilding, where he associated himself with many interests and was a member of the Borough Council for two terms. Of a family of 10, eight aro living, and there are 1G grandchildren. The members of the family are Bert, of Stanway; William, of Bulls; Percy and Cecil, of Feilding; Len, of Apiti; Mrs Geo. Thurston, of Ruawai (North Auckland, Mrs Wilfred Simpson, and Miss Lynda Guy, of Feilding.