SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4043, 4 May 1938, Page 6

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs G. S. Swain, Mangapiko Street, is visiting Auckland. Miss R. Williams is spending her holidays in and around Auckland. Mr 1. M. West, of Teasdale Street, leaves to-day on a visit to Taranaki. Mrs H. Morton, of Port Ahuriri, is at present on a visit to relatives in Te Awamutu. Mrs K.. Skiiton, of Opua, who has been the guest of Mrs B. R. Hamilton. Mutu Street, left on Monday evening for Wellington in continuation of hey holiday trip. Mr W. H. Freeman, S.M., has been appointed chairman of the. licensing committees for the Franklin, Thames and Waitomo districts, replacing Mr F. H. Levien, S.M. Miss J. Restan, of Dannevirke and Mrs T. P. Heeney, of Hastings, are the guests of Mrs F. J. B. Ryburn, of Paterangi, and will attend the Emp-son-Ryburn wedding on Saturday. The Hon. R. Semple, Minister of Public Works, will arrive at Morrinsville on Thursday, May 12. He will deliver an address there in the evening. Mrs R. Fox and Miss Barbara Fox, of Rewi Street, who have been on a motoring tour of the Wellington and Hawke’s Bay districts, have returned to Te Aiwaniutu. Miss June Vickerman, who has been spending three months holiday at Waitomo Caves, returned on Monday to her home at St. George’s Bay Road, Auckland. Mr and Mrs Alex. Morris, who spent their honeymoon in the South Island and southern portions of the North Island, arrived in Te Awamutu on Monday and have taken up their residence in Mangapiko Street. Messrs W. Windsor and A. Graham, who have been touring the North Island by motor cycle, have returned to Wellington after a short visit to Mr Windsor’s uncle and aunt, Mr and Mrs E. Grimshaw, of Laurie Street. Mr R. O’Donohue has been appointed to the auctioneering staff of Dalgety and Company, Limited, Hamilton. He has been with the company for 18 years in Hawke’s Bay, being head auctioneer at Hastings during recent years. Mr Lincoln Smith, of the teaching staff of Te Awamutu District High School, will leave on Saturday for Wellington, where he will preside over next week’s annual conference of the New Zealand Educational Institute, of which he is president. Mr G. O. Jourdain intimated to the Council of the Te Awamutu Chamber of Commerce last night that he desired to retire from the secretaryship at the end of the present financial year in June'. This will complete his sixteenth year ?.s secretary to tlie Chamber. Mrs A. W. A. Perkins, who has been spending some months in Te Awamutu, returned to Auckland on Monday and is staying with her daughter, Mrs J. Francis Wright, Portland Road, Remuera. Mr and Mrs Perkins will leave Auckland on May 18 for Wellington to connect with the Arawa for England. A well-known farmer of the Arapae district, Mr Hugh Galbraith Weir, died at his home on Saturday. Mr Weir, who was 64 years of age, was the youngest son of the late Mr Thomas Weir, a pioneer settler of Mangapai, near Whangarei. In his youth, he was a skilled bushman in the northern district. In 1910 he bought a farm at Arapae, where he had been a postmaster for the past 25 years. He is survived by his wife, five daughters and two sons. The gratifying intelligence has been received in Te Awamutu that Dr B. O. Quin, son of Mr and Mrs Francis Quin, of Pirongia Road, has been granted a diploma in child health by the Royal College of Surgeons, acting jointly with the Royal College of Physicians. The many friends in this district of Dr Quin, who is now on the medical staff of the Princess Elizabeth Hospital, London, will be pleased to hear of the honour conferred upon him, and will offer their sincerest congratulations.

The new Chief Surveyor, Chief Drainage Engineer and Land Development Superintendent for the Lands and Survey Department in the Auckland district, Mr R. L. Innis, took up his duties at Auckland this week. Mr Innis succeeds Mr R. G. Macmorran, who was recently transferred to Wellington on promotion to the post of Assistant Under-secretary for Lands. Mr Innis has" a wide experience of swamp and pumice land development in the Auckland Province, where nearly the whole of his career has been passed. Four years ago he was placed in charge of a number of land development schemes, including the Galatea Estate. In his new position he is responsible for all the territory comprised in the Auckland and North Auckland Land Districts.

Mi- H. E. Tristram, of Hamilton, yesterday celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday. He has resided in that town continuously for sixty-four years. Always a keen sportsman, Mr Tristram is a life member of Hamilton Rugby Union and of the Waikato Trotting Club. He was secretary of the former body for about forty years, and also held a similar position in the Waikato Rugby Union for a number of years. Until recently trotting was Mr Tristram’s greatest hobby, and h: was one of the first followers of the sport in Waikato. Prior to the Great War Mr Tristram was a member of the Hamilton Borough Council, and for twenty-three years he was secretary of the Hamilton East Schoo! Committee. He was a member of the Waikato Hospital Board until about thirteen years ago, and is still keenly interested in the affairs of the Masonic Lodge, having in the year 1935 celebrated his sixtieth anniversary as a member of the Hamilton Lodge. Mr O. Tristram, of Otorohanga, is a son.