SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3895, 28 April 1937, Page 6

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

• Mrs H. B. Kennedy hits returned from a trip to Tailiape.

Miss Nichol is at present on a visit to Patea.

Mr A. G. Weatherell, of Auckland, is at present visiting Te Awamutu.

The Hon.-R. Semple and Mrs Semple left by the Limited last night, for Wellington.

Miss Sylvia Arnold, of Moerewa, North Auckland, and formerly of Te Awamutu, is visiting friends here at present.

Mr J. Gillies and his assistant, Government audit inspectors, are now in Te Awamutu auditing various public body accounts.

Mr Ray Moss, of the Wellsford post office staff, is spending part of his annual holiday leave with friends in Te Awamutu.

Mrs W.. G. Kay and Miss Mona Kay, of Korakonui, have returned home after a most enjoyable holiday spent touring New South Wales.

Mrs ■ Tye, Snr., and her daughter, Marcia, of Takapuna, are visiting Te Awamutu as the guests of Mrs Seiwyn Tye, Pakura Street.

Mr E. T. Tirikatene, M.P., a mem ber of the New Zealand Coronation contingent, had the distinction of be ing the first Maori to appear in a 8.8. C. television transmission.

Mr and Mrs W. J. Thompson and their two sons, Raymond and Hugh, have just returned from a two weeks motor tour of the Taranaki, Wellington, and Hawke’s Bay districts, and motored 1260 miles. They were accompanied by Mr J. R. Flay, of Te Rahu.

Before his departure from Te Awamutu Mr H. Robinson, who has been caretaker of the local District High School for the past six years, was presented by the teaching staff of the secondary department with a gold Eversharp pencil and a carton of cigarettes, as a goodwill offering and appreciation of the happy relationships prevailing. The headmaster, Mr A. H. Woods, made the presentation, and Mr Robinson suitably replied.

On his way to the platform prior to tile ceremony of opening the new bridge at Fairfield on Monday, the Minister of Transport and Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple, was introduced to Mr Thomas Took, one of the Waikato’s oldest identities, aged 96. Mr Took, shaking hands with the Minister, expressed his real satisfaction at the methods adopted by the Minister to control present-day traffic problems. At the Minister’s request Mr Took, took a seat with the official party upon the platform.