SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 52, Issue 3767, 10 June 1936, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mr and Mrs M. R. Buckton, of Kaukapakapa, have been visiting Te Awamutu as the guests of Mrs G. O. Jourdain, Aboyne Road.

Miss Winnie Lamb, of Auckland, is the guest of Mrs Clough Blundell.

,A visitor to Te Awamutu during the past couple of days is Mrs H. E. G. Wilson, of Mangateparu (Morrinsville district), and formerly of Te Awamutu.

Miss Huia Empson, of Wellington, who underwent an operation at Matariki Private Hospital last evening, is making satisfactory progress.

Mr J. W. Campbell, drainage engineer and surveyor, of Te Kawa, leaves shortly for Australia to design a sewerage scheme for the city of Grafton, New South Wales. With Mr Stevens, Mr Campbell has lately been designing a water supply and sewerage scheme for Kajapoi borough, in Canterbury.

Mr L. H. Pettit, chief auctioneer of the Hamilton branch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., has resigned and is joining the staff of the New Zealand Farmers’ Distributing Co., with headquarters at. Masterton.

At a meeting of the United Grand Lodge held at Freemasons’ Hall, London, on 29th April, the Duke of Connaught, who is now 86 years of age, was proclaimed Grand Master for the thirty-sixth year. Among those appointed to brevet rank was the Right Hon. J. G. Coates, M.P., to the rank of Past Senior Grand Deacon.

The death occurred on Tuesday, 2nd inst, at the Auckland Hospital, of Mr Joseph/ Reginald Corlett, who saw active service in the Great War as a member of the 4th Waikato Mounted Rifles, and was wounded in the throat and ankle at the battle of Messines. A patient sufferer for many years, he, passed peacefully away. Deceased was a son of Mrs L. Corlett, sen., Te Mawhai. /

To-day is the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Richard John Seddon. He died on 10th June, 1906, in his sixty-first year, his death taking place on board the steamer Oswestry Grange while on his return to New Zealand after visiting Australia. The steamer reached Wellington on 16th June, and the Premier’s funeral took place on 21st June, his body being interred on Observatory Hill, where the memlorial now stands at the top of the Bolton Street cemetery.

A farewell evening was tendered recently at Te Kawa to Miss C. J. Skudder, who has been transferred to Otorohanga, consequent on the consolidation of the Te Kawa West school. Cards, singing and dancing filled the programme. During the supper adjournment Mr M. R. Ashton voiced the regret of the settlers at Miss Skudder’s departure, and eulogised her work in the district. He asked her to accept tangible appreciation in the form of two handsome gifts from the residents. Miss Skudder feelingly replied, and musical honours were accorded her. The evening closed with the singing of Auld Lang Syne.