SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4047, 13 May 1938, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Miss Muriel Reilly, of Park Road, has left on a fortnight’s visit to New Plymouth. Mr and Mrs H. Carseldine, of Waharoa. are on a visit to their son, Mr Hector Carseldine. Mr P. J. Alley, assistant city engineer of Invercargill, has been appointed borough engineer of Taumarunui. Mrs J. J. Daley, of Pirongia, is visiting Gisborne and is the guest of Mrs N. Hooper. Mrs R. Lightfoot and her small son are at present spending a holiday in Maihiihi and are the guests of Mt and Mr F. Chiles. Miss Merron Broadfoot, of the Dental Clinic Training College, is spending her term holidays in Te Kuiti. Mr Justice Ostler, who had a serious illness last December, from which he has not fully recovered, has been granted extended leave of absence. Mr and Mrs W. Vallis and family, of Te Poi.. were in Te Awamutu yesterday in the course of a visit to relatives here. Mr L. V. Bryant, senior house master at Waitaki Boys’ High School, is visiting relatives in the Te Awamutu and Matangi districts. Mrs C. A. Pennell, who has been spending a month’s holiday with her mother, Mrs H. M. Quin, of Otorohanga, returned to Wellington last Monday evening. The engagement is announced between Honora Mary (Molly) eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs T. Johnston, Waverley (Taranaki), and Norman Geddes, eldest son of Mr and Mrs J. T. Larsen, of Otorohanga. Mr L. G. Dawes, who has been stationed at Te Awamutu as traffic inspector, returned to town from Hawke’s Bay on Tuesday and left yesterday for the Bay of Islands to which district he has been transferred. Mr B. M. Laird, of the staff of the Pio Pio Consolidated School, has been transferred to Kauroa, near Raglan, and a farewell social and dance is being tendered to him and his wife in the Pio Pio Hall on Monday. Mr and Mrs Laird will be greatly missed in Pio Pio, where they have been keenly .interested in many activities particularly in sport. The engagement is announced of Graham Reese, youngest son of Mr and the late Mrs R. W. Magill, of Te Aroha, and Eileen Eleanor, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs H. W. Witney, of Chislehurst, England. Mr Magill is an officer of the Royal Air Force recently transferred to Egypt, and when he resided in Hamilton was a contributor to concert programmes in Te Awamutu. The contest for the Tauranga Mayoralty had a special interest for Te Awamutu district in that the sitting Mayor seeking re-election was Mr L. R. Wilkinson, formerly a farmer at Pokuru and a son -cn-law of Mr C. M. Alexander, of Mangapiko. Mr Wilkinson was re-elected with a vote cf 1131, as compared with 680 for his opponent, Mr A. N. Iles. A feature of the elections at Wellington on Wednesday last was the fact that Mrs Knox Gilmer, a daughter of the late Rt. Hon. R. J. Seddon, headed the list of successful candidates for the Wellington Hospital Board, receiving 23,900 votes, which was 702 votes more than recorded for* tho leading candidate for the City Council. This establishes a record for New Zealand, being the first occasion in a city wherein a woman has “topped the poll.” Mr T. Parker, a National Party nominee for the Hamilton electorate, announced on Wednesday that he would be en route to England when the selection of the candidate was made on May 26 but if he were selected he would return to Hamilton sufficiently early to take part in the election campaign. Mr Parker will leave Hamilton to-day for Wellington, where he will join the Monterey for England. The deiath occurred in Hamilton on Tuesday of Mrs Sarah Ann Alexander, aged 72 years. The late Mrs Alexander was born at Ngaruawahia in 1865 just after the cessation of hostilities between the Maoris and Europeans in the Waikato. With her parents, the late Mr and Mrs David Leitch, deceased for some time resided at Ki hikihi where her father was engaged in farming before going to the Thames early in the seventies, and taking up bush contracting. Mrs E. J. Murtagh, of Ohaupo Road, received the sad information by cable yesterday morning of the sudden death of her younger sister’s husband, Mr Roy Wilson, the leading Victorian horseman. Later information shows that Wilson (who, with his wife, visited relatives in New Zealand last November) was riding in a race at Morphettville, South Australia, when a horse fell and brought down four others. Wilson’s head was crushed, and death must have been instantaneous. Another horseman was killed and two others seriously injured. The deceased horseman had had meteoric success in his profession and rode winners of many important races. He was very widely esteemed for sterling qualities, and his young wife and other relatives will have the sincere sympathy of all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance during his visit to Te Awamutu.