SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3894, 26 April 1937, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mr W. B. Bedford, of Ngahape; who has been on a week’s visit to Auckland, returned homo on Saturday.

Mrs Abercromby ani Miss A. Robertson, of Pypatoetoo, are visiting Mr? J. Walker, ot Ta Awamutu.

Mrs H. de Lacy Peake, of Takapuna, Auckland, spent a few days with Mrs W. Jeffery, of Te Awamutu, recently.

Mr Herbert Hey, of Mangapiko, Mr Albert Bradley, of Maihiihi, and Mr J. H. Jones, of Ngahape, left this morning on a holiday to Auckland.

Sister Bloxsome, matron of the Te Kuiti Hospital, is at present making good progress after an operation at the Waikato Hospital. Nurse Lusk is in charge of the Te Kuiti Hospital during Sister Bloxsome’s absence.

“In due course, my name will probably go before the Rotorua electoral committee,” said Mr F. W. Doidge in Hamilton. The statement arose from recent conjecture as to his future political intentions.

The Hon. W. Lee Martin, Minister of Agriculture, is visiting Hamilton to-day, and will accompany the Hon. R. Semple in his tour of the Waikato electorate. He will return to Wellington to-morrow night.

The Minister of Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple, is spending to-day and to-morrow in the Waikato electorate. This morning he received deputations in Hamilton and this afternoon officially opened the Fairfield Bridge. To-morrow he will visit Cambridge and Morrinsville, returning to Wellington to-morrow night.

At a social function at Auckland on Saturday afternoon Mrs L. J. Keys was presented with the gold brooch which she had won as champion of champions of the Auckland Croquet Association. There was a large attendance, including Mrs H. V. Pearte, of Te Awamutu, who had been associated with Mrs Keys in the doubles competition during the South Auckland tournament.

Mr Phil. Murtagh, of Te Mawhai, vice-president of the local branch of the Labour Party, met with a nasty accident on Friday night last. He was crossing Alexandra Street when he was knocked over by a motor car, with the result that he sustained severe laceration of the head and nasty bruising of the legs, besides a fracture of the fibula. He received immediate medical treatment and is now progressing favourably.

A meritous record lies to the credit oil Fireman J. Dalton, of the Te Awamutu Fire Brigade. He joined in 1929 as a messenger and, except for a period when he was suffering from a broken collar bone, has never missed a practice. The Te Awamutu Fire Board has decided to. bring the record under the notice of Mr Girling Butcher (inspector of fire brigades), and Captain Watts (secretary to the United Fire Brigades’ Association) with a view to it being suitably recognised.