LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 13858, 17 May 1938, Page 4

LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

'The Mangamutu Women’s Institute will hold a dance in the Mangamutu Hall on Saturday, May 21.

The Pahiatua members of the Dannevirke Hunt Club ’.\ill hold a dance 111 the Kohinui hall on Wednesday, June 1.

The final ball run to further the candidature of the Pahiatua quec n in the Labour Party Queen Carmva,! will take place in the Library Hali Mangatainoka on Tuesday, May 31 Musjo will be provided by Brookers Orchestra. The Pahiatua Queen and Mr Hansen. Labour candidate for Pabiatua, will be present.

On Sunday night a Masterton car whose driver is so far unknown k -ally crashed into the bridge by the Newman factory, suffering considerable damage. The vehicle was slewed at an angle to the road and traffic had to proceed very cautiously until the wrecked ear was removed to Eketahuna. where Dr. Simmers had to attend to some of the occupants.

Mr W Lawr\ was granted leave ->f absence from last night’s meeting of the Pahiatua School C - ininitte3 owing to an indis|>o> it ion. When pushing a truck in. the garage the other day he turned the wheel winch went round sharply on the loc k and ran over his heel. Fortunately no lrnnes wire broken but it will be som-j time before he is about again as th*j ligaments were torn son.twhat.

At a largely attended meeting of the residents of Mangamutu held last; night it was resolved that as Mr and Mrs C H. Isaksoii were retiring from their farm in Mangamutu to take up their residence in Pahiatua that a complimentary social and dance be tended, them on Friday, June 3. Special arrangements are being made for the event and a strong orchestra is being arranged lcr long night; dancing.

A mishap occurred at the Pahiatua end of the Mukuri Gorge on Sunday afternoon as a result of which telegraph communication was interruptod tor some time. It transpires that cars driven by Air A. Beet ha m (who was en route to Pori fb visit his fcon) and Mr G. S. Bremner, concrete contractor, of Palmerston North (who was returning with Ins plant on a trailer from a job at Akitio) met in a narrow part of the gorge. Mr Bremner went over to the outside of the road to pass the oncoming car and his wheel went into a depression. The mudguard of his car apparently just grazed a telegraph post, causing the trailer to slew round and crash the post with somewhat disastrous results. Fortunately the car was not involved.