SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3898, 7 May 1937, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mr S. Clark left last evening for Wellington, and expects to be absent a few days.

Miss Kathleen Solomon, of Taumarunui, is visiting Otorohanga, and is the guest of Mrs H. Isaac.

Mr and Mrs J. M. Hair, of Te Kanawa Road, Te Aroha, were visitors to Te Awamutu yesterday renewing old friendships.

Mrs Howie, of Morrinsville, is a visitor to the King Country, where she is the guest of her daughter, Mrs V. W. Simms, of Otewa.

Mrs C. Keen, of Te 'Paki station, North Auckland, and Miss Jean Mudie of Wellington, are at present the guests of Mrs A. J. McGovern, Frontier Road.

Mr H. E. G. Wilson, of Mangateparu, and formerly of the N.Z. Co-op. Dairy Co.'s Te Awamutu staff, was a visitor here on Wednesday for a few hours, renewing old friendships.

Mr. George Lang, well known in this district as North Island woolclasser for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., is spending a few days in Te Awamutu.

Mr P. Goldsbro, of Auckland, arriv ed in Te Awamutu last night to assist with the secretarial work in connection with -the Waipa Racing Club’s winter meeting on Saturday of next week.

Detective Sergeant P. J. Doyle, of Wellington, who has been the guest oi Mr and Mrs D. Dunlop, at Waikeria, for the opening of the shooting season, has now left on his return home. We understand he enjoyed first class sport during his sojourn in the district.

Miss May Thompson, of Te Rahu, has just returned home after spending four months in Nelson and Marlborough. She travelled from Blenheim to Palmerston North by air. Miss Mollie North, who accompanied Miss Thompson to the South Island, is still in Nelson.

Recent visitors to Otorohanga were Mr and Mrs Irwin, of Cardiff (Taranaki), and Mrs J. O’Neil, of Pukengahu (near Eltham). Mrs O’Neil has left on a six months’ holiday in the South Sea Islands, where she will be the guest of her daughter, Mrs ■ C. E. H. Quin, of Apia (Western Samoa).

Great preparations are being made by the local executive of the St. John Ambulance for the Coronation dance in the Town Hall next Tuesday evening. Apart from the attractiveness ot the function, there is reason for expecting full support of the affair in view of the fact that the St. John Ambulance is doing splendid public work.

A call to Trinity Presbyterian Church, Cambridge, addressed to the Rev. H. W. Hitchcock, was submitted to a meeting of the Waikato Presbytery in Hamilton on Tuesday. It was signed by 200 of a roll number of 290, and was supported by 54 adherents. The Presbytery sustained the call.

Local folk were aghast on Wednesday evening when it became known that word had been received from Christchurch that Mr George Dalton,. Te Awamutu’s Rhodes Scholar, was in hospital there, having contracted infantile paralysis. His father left by the evening train for Christchurch, due to arrive there this morning, but latest inquiry shows that no message has reached Te Awamutu. So far as Is known, Mr Dalton, jun., has his right leg affected .

The Chronicle statei that Mr 11. Dinsdale presided over a good muster of Te Kuiti bowlers on Tuesday evening for the purpose of saying farewell to the retiring president, Mr S. Baddeley, and a member of the committee, Mr N. Cory Matthew. Eulogistic references were made by the chairman and other speakers to the enthusiasm and energy that the pre sident had displayed during his two years’ tenure of office. On the Club’s behalf the chairman handed to Mr Baddeley a leather bowling bag. In accepting the gift Mr Baddeley urged members to be loyal to their Club, and promised to pay a friendly visit to Te Kuiti next season with a Te Awamutu bowling rink. Mr Baddeley has joined the Te Awamutu staff of Newton King, Ltd. Appreciative reference to the work of Mr Matthew as a member of the committee was voiced by Mi' H. G. Shakes in presenting the departing guest with a pipe. Mr Matthew suitably replied.