ONERAHI NEWS

Northern Advocate, 20 April 1933, Page 7

ONERAHI NEWS

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Personal. Mrs A. S. Fagan left on Wednesday on a holiday visit to friends in Auckland. She was accompanied by Miss Morgan, whoso guest she will be in the meantime. After a very pleasant time, spent as the guests of Mr and Mrs J. Horn, Mr and Mrs Budge, with their family, left last week for their home in Kio Kio. It was Mr .Budge’s first visit to Oncrahi and he was delighted with its many scenic and other attractions. Mrs Pye arrived last week from Auckland to spend the holiday with her daughter and friends. She is enjoying the fine weather as the guest of Afiss Pollock. Mr Bye will join her later. Miss .Marie de Stigter left on Wednesday for Waipu for a holiday visit among friends. She will be the guest of her cousin. A Loss. The sudden demise, of ' Mr Lewis Williams, who was found dead in his bed uu Friday morning, cast quite a gloom over the holiday spirit of his many friends. Mr Williams was among the old identities of the township and district, and was liked and respected by all who knew him. Of quiet retiring disposition, ho nevertheless took a keen interest in social affairs, and his death cannot fail to come as a loss to the community. His funeral in the Pa run. Bay cemetery on Sunday was attended by many mourners. School Breaks Up. The Onerahi Public School broke up for Faster recess on Thursday and term was resumed on Wednesday. The youngsters had a jolly time in the bright spring weather. Good Friday. It was an ominous weather outlook for the holidays up to the last moment. Rain fell heavily on Thursday night, but Food Friday broke sunny and clear. It was ideal. Visitors from Whangaroi ami elsewhere, anxious for a breath of the briny, arrived -by bus and car to spread themselves along the beaches and amid tLo foreshore trees, whence arose the smoke of picnic fires while merry parties waited till the billy | boiled. . i

Easter Monday. Attractions and sports elsewhere claimed a large clientele and the number of holidayers in Onerahi was proportionately less. Still, crowded buses and cars brought their quotas, and for the nonce, the township took on a quite populous aspect. The bush along the foreshore became clamorous with voices of merry picnickers, and others spread themselves joyously along the beaches or bathed in the shore ripples. An ideal day. Blue sky, warm sun, fleecy clouds and gentle sailing breeze. The, blue of the water was dotted with the white sails of yachts and smaller craft. Launches sped down harbour, bound with singing freights of merry-makers, ■each for a chosen rendezvous in coastal nook. The Eva with bunting flying and white wake churning, sped down channel, crowded with holidayers for the joys and games of Manganese Point. Neighbourly Action. A lire accidentally started by Mrs D. W. 0, Fagan and her grandson on Monday, got beyond control amid dry grass and fern. ‘ Had it not been fur the prompt action of Mr E. L. Whimp ami his sons, Messrs Cecil and Horace Whimp, the blaze must have spread to adjacent /residential sections, with disastrous results-.' Mr H. Meuzies arrived also to assist, and, working hard for a strenuous half-hour, the four stalwarts managed to beat, out the lire. It and it is believed the conflagration acwas started to burn out a wasp’s nest, counted for the insects.