SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4044, 6 May 1938, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs G. W- McCallum, of Paterangi, is spending a holiday in Auckland.

Earl Baldwin has been elected president of the; Marylebone Cricket Club.

Mr 11. G. Davis, of Christchurch, is at present on a visit to his nephew, Mr L. A. Johnston, of Mutu Street.

Mrs G. Silvester, who has been on a visit to Manurewa, has returned to Paterangi. ,

Mrs H. Rhodes and Miss Nancy Rhodes, of Paterangi, are at present on an extended visit to Australia.

Mrs W. Foggin, of Sloane Street, is at present on a holiday visit to Rotorua.

Mrs W. Jefferies, of Taranaki, is at present on a visit to her son and daughter-in-law, Mr and Mrs J- A. Jefferies, of Pokuru.

Mrs J. Wiggins, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs Arthur Tait, of Otorohanga, returned to her home at Featherston this week.

Miss Phyllis Blackburn, of Mahoe Street, left yesterday for Auckland, where she will spend a holiday and also attend the re-union of pupils of the Remuera School.

Miss Beverley Broadfoot, daughter of Mr W. J- Broadfoot, M.P., and Mrs Broadfoot, Te Kuiti, will leave Wellington by the Rangitane on Monday on an extended visit to England.

Mr W. Semmens, of Invercargill, son of Mr H. P. Semmens. a former bank official in Te Awamutu, is paying a visit to this district, and is the guest of Mr and Mrs K. C. Rickit, Alexandra Street.

Mr and Mrs W. A. Woodward, of Bridgman’s Road, intend leaving Te Awamutu at an early date, Mr Woodward having sold his business to Mr S. M. Bakulish, formerly of Rotorua.

The engagement is announced between Mavis Amy, second daughter of Mrs and the late Mr E. J. Rye, of Ngahinapouri, and Samuel, eldest son of Mr and Mrs F. H. Stephens, of Ngahinapouri.

Mr A. H. Laybourn, the local postmaster, and Mrs Laybourn. have returned from a holiday tour of North Auckland. Mr Laybourn resumes duty on Monday.

-Mr L. G. Dawes, local traffic officer, left this afternoon en route to Hawke’s Bay, where he will be on relieving duties for the next four to six weeks. During his absence, an inspector from .Ngaruawahia will patrol the Te Awamutu district.

Mr F. H. Barnett, of Ngahape, is at present an inmate of a private hospital, in Te Awamutu, having had a recurrence of tfm internal trouble that necessitated an operation and a stay in tho institution a couple of months or so ago.

The Rev. T. H. Roseveare, Minister of St. John’s Presbyterian Church, Papatoetoe, and formerly Moderator of the General Assembly, who is wellknown in Te Awamutu, has accepted a call to Tauranga and was inducted in his new charge at St. Peter’s Church thero last night.

Before business was proceeded with at the annual meeting of Te Awamutu Orphans’ Club last evening the chairman (Bro. A. J. Tailby) referred to the bereavement sustained by Bro. E. H. Cuckscy in the death of Mrs Cucksey and the grief of the Club at the demise of such splendid members as Bros. D. Clark and J. P. O’Sullivan. At the request of the chairman, members stood in silence as a mark of sympathy with the bereaved relatives.

The Johnson quadruplets, of Dunedin, who celebrated their third birthday on 6th March, have now begun their school career at the Kaikorai Free Kindergarten. They entered on this new phase of their life with enthusiasm, and were warmly welcomed by the other children. Bruce led his three sisters, Vera. Kathleen, and Mary, into the school, and they were soon sharing in what the kindergarten had to offer, including the morning ration of milk and raisins.

The many friends of Mrs W. Burrell, of Otorohanga, will extend their heartfelt sympathy to her in the bereavement she has suffered by the death of her mother, Mrs Elizabeth Allen, which occurred at her residence, Lansdowne, Masterton, on Sunday last at the advanced age of 89 years. The late Mrs Allen came to New Zealand with her late husband, Mr Alexander Allen, in the ship Loch Doon in 1881 and since then had reresided most of the time at Wallaceville.

One of the six remaining Canterbury pilgrims who arrived in the First Four Ships in 1850 to found the province of Canterbury, Mr Richard Evans, Tai Tapu, celebrated his ninetieth birthday last week. Like the Rev. F. G. Brittan, another Canterbury pilgrim who has reached his ninetieth birthday this year, Mr Evans enjoys remarkably good health and has a clear memory of important events in the history of the Canterbury Province. Mr Evans was nearly three years old when he arrived with his parents on the Cressy. He is the only survivor of the Cressy, which was the fourth of the Four Ships to reach Lyttelton.

The centenary of the death of the Rev. Samuel Marsden, who in 1814 was the first to bring the Christian faith to New Zealand, falls on Thursday next (12th May). He died at Parramatta on 12th May, 1838. Special services of thanksgiving for his life and work have been arranged to be held in the Auckland district. “It was Marsden’s great privilege to hold the first Christian service in New Zealand and to celebrate Holy Communion for the first time,” says Archbishop Averill, writing in the Church Gazette. “ The Rev. Samuel Marsden, the apostle to the Maoris in New Zealand and the first priest to celebrate the ‘Holy Mysteries,’ paid his last visit to this country in 1836. and received the heartfelt homage of the Maoris, who doubtless realised that owing to his increasing infirmity they would see his face no more.”