SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 55, Issue 3941, 18 August 1937, Page 6

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs C. M. Newton, of Muriwai, is visiting her mother, Mrs B._ A. Downes, of Teasdale Street. I

Mr J. Fletcher, who has been visiting Auckland, returned to Te Awamutu last evening.

Mrs Blanchfield, of Auckland, is in Te Awamutu, and is the guest of Mrs H. Steer, Teasdale Street.

Miss Ursula Barry, of Hamilton, is the guest of Mrs J. Raymond, Cambridge Road.

Mr I. F. A. Quin is spending his annual leave at Otorohanga before assuming his duties as postmaster at Mokauiti.

Mr H. H. Hemphiß, recently of the staff of the Bank of New Zealand, Te Kuiti, has received notice of his transfer to the Woodville branch. -

Mrs D. Hunter, of Teasdale Street, is spending a holiday in North Auckland, visiting her daughter, Mrs S. H. A. Love, of Poutu.

Miss Collette Pollard, of the nursing staff of Waikato Hospital, has been spending her annual leave at home in Te Awamutu, and will return to duty on Friday.

Mr A. C. Mercer has arrived from Tauranga to fill the vacancy on the staff of the local Post and Telegraph Office occasioned by the recent transfer of Mr R. S. Mockett to Tuakau.

Mrs J. Murphy, who has been enjoying a week’s holiday as the guest of Mrs Rickard Collins, Rewi Street, and renewing old acquaintanceships in the district, has returned to her home in Auckland.

Mr W. J. Broadfoot, M.P., who was a member of the Empire Parliamentary Association delegation to London, was to leave England on his return to New Zealand on 14th August.

The Governor-General, Lord Galway, may visit Waikato during November. His Excellency has been invited to officially open the Thames Valley A. and P. Show at Te Aroha.

Mr C. W. Kennedy, chairman of the Piako County Council, who is on a trip to the United Kingdom, is expected back for the October meeting of the Council.

Miss Eileen Hunter, of Te Awamutu, leaves in a few days to spend a week at The Chateau preparatory ro joining the team of New Zealanders who are to attend the championship winter sports meeting in Australia next month.

Mr C. McDonald, M.R.C.V.C., of Hamilton, who came to New Zealand from Scotland about two years ago under engagement to the Department of Agriculture, has been appointed veterinary surgeon to the South Otago Veterinary Association.

Mr E. G. Guy, of the Rctorua Morning Post, accompanied by Mrs Guy, was a visitor to Otorohanga on Sunday. They renewed many old friendships in the King Country town before proceeding on a motoring tour to Wanganui and Wellington.

Cable advice from the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, Minister of Labour, that he will leave by the Aorangi from Vancouver for Auckland on Ist September has been received by the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage. The Aorangi is due at Auckland on 20th September.

Mr H. H. Innes, formerly of Hamilton, who has been in England for ten months as marketing research officer for the Primary Products Marketing Department, returned to Auckland by the Mataroa last Saturday. He will make his headquarters in Wellington.

Mr E. J. Howard, M.P. for Christ, church South and Chairman of Committees of the House of Representatives, and Mr F. W. Schramm, M.P. for Auckland East, are passengers by the Otranto, which left London on July 17th and was due at Fremantle yesterday.

The appointment of officers of the State Advances Corporation as supervisors for the sixteen districts into which New Zealand is divided for the purposes of the Rural Intermediate Credit Act, 1927, is announced in the latest Gazette. Mr D. Grant, Hamilton, has been appointed supervisor for Waikato.

Mr Arthur Henderson, Labour representative for Kingswinford, Staffordshire, in the British House of Commons, is expected to arrive in Wellington next Wednesday. During his stay in New Zealand he will give a number of public addresses under the auspices of the Youth Peace Council.

The appointment is announced of Mr J. A. Bruce, A.N.Z.1.C., to the staff of the Dominion Fertiliser Company, Dunedin. For the last nine years Mr Bruce has been engaged as inspector of fertilisers with the Department of Agriculture, Wellington, and prior to that he was for some years engaged in investigating soil problems at the Cawthron Institute, Nelson. Mr Bruce, who is well-known in and around the Te Awamutu district, is the author of many papers and articles dealing with the scientific aspect of farming and soil problems and is recognised as one of the leading authorities in New Zealand on the chemistry of soil and fertilisers. He will take up his duties at Ravensbourne almost immediately.

The death has occurred in England of Mr Cyril McNeile, the well-known writer of popular stories who adopted the pen-name of “ Sapper.” Creator of the well-known character in fiction known as “ Bulldog Drummond,” Mr McNeile followed an army career before taking to the writing of “thrillers.” Born in 1888, he entered the Royal Engineers in 1907, the origin of his literary pseudonym of “ Sapper.” Upon the outbreak of the Great War he held the rank of captain. He retired in 1919 with the rank of lieu-tenant-colonel. Among the books written by “ Sapper ” were “Sergeant Michael Cassidy,” “ Men, Women, and Guns,” “ No Man’s Land,” “ The Final Count,” “ Temple Tower,” “ Tiny Carteret,” and “ The Island of Terror.”