SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 52, Issue 3771, 19 June 1936, Page 6

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Miss Thelma Wyllie, of Frontier Road, is spending a holiday in Auckland. Mr A. G. Yardley, of Morrinsville, was a visitor to Te Awamutu yesterday, renewing old friendships. Miss Ruth Cox, of Te Rahu Road, is spending a month’s holiday with relatives and friends in Hawke’s Bay. The Auckland Board of Education on Wednesday confirmed the appointment of Miss M. A. Boucher as sole teacher at Te Rahu school. Mr D. McDonald, who recently disposed of his dairy farm at Korakonui, has now purchased Mr A. E. Peppercorn’s farm of 304 acres at Leamington. , At the annual Roman Catholic Charity Ball at Hamilton last evening a number of debutantes were presented, including Miss Marie Hawkins, of Te Awamutu. Mr H. T. Haselden, secretary of the Te Awamutu branch, is attending the annual meeting of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association in Wellington. Mr Robert Cavanagh, of Hamua (Forty Mile Bush), who has been visiting relatives and friends in this district, returned south on Wednesday evening’s Main Trunk express. With him went his nephew, Mr Ray Cavanagh, of Puahue. Very many old friends and sympathisers with the bereaved family, attended the funeral of the late Mrs Margaret Sterritt on Wednesday. The interment took place at the Pirongia cemetery, and the officiating clergyman was the Rev. A. C. McLean, of Cambridge. Floral tributes of respect and sympathy were laid on the grave in large numbers. A coming-of-age party was given in the Ngutunui Hall last Tuesday evening in honour of Mr Bert Jackson, a popular young man in the district. Dancing and musical items were features of the evening. Mrs H. Steer, of Te Awamutu, contributed two delightful vocal solos, Miss P. North playing the accompaniments, while the Rev. Fussell, vicar of Kawhia, presented a very entertaining recitation describing how Mrs ’Odson made twelve lamp chimneys out of twelve bottles. Hearty good wishes were accorded the guest of the evening, by the assemblage, and he suitably replied, in a characteristic speech. A striking tribute to the very high esiteem in which the late Mr W. G. Kay was held was the record and representative attendance at the funeral on Wednesday afternoon. Practically every sports and piiblic body in the whole countryside was represented, and at the graveside the large number of Maoris was an indication also of how the late Mr Kay was regarded by the Maori race. A short service was conducted at the homestead by the Rev. W. T. Brabyn, of Te Kuiti (and formerly of Kihikihi), assisted by the Rev. H. A. Moore, of Kihikihi, and Mr Brabyn again officiated at the graveside, where also a brief but impressive Masonic service was conducted. Then followed an oration by a high chief of the Ngatiraukawa tribe, Ngakau, of Owairaka. Many floral emblems were laid at the graveside, and the pall-bearers were deceased’s four brothers, Messrs James, Harry, Lyell, and Dick Kay.