SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 58, Issue 4187, 22 May 1939, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs S. Waite, of Pirongia, is spending a holiday in Auckland with friends.

Mr W. J. Broadfoot, M.P. for Waitorno, was a visitor to Te Awamutu on Saturday.

Miss M. Simms, of Pirongia, is at present touring the South Island with her sister, Mrs A. Jones, of Westport.

Mrs Allen Bond, Of Bond’s Road, returned home on Saturday from a holiday visit to Auckland.

Miss E. McNaughton, of Pirongia, has returned home after a most enjoyable holiday at Takapuna.

Mrs John Sterritt and family, of Young Street, who have been spending an extended holiday at Bay of Islands, have returned home.

The engagement is announced of James Douglas, younger son of Mr and Mrs Harold Hey, Mangapiko, and Norma Isabel, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs E. J. Easter, of Cambridge.

Mr C. A. Wilson, of Kihikihi, who found it necessary to enter a Te Awamutu private hospital for an appendix operation, is now making good progress towards recovery.

Mi’ and Mrs W. G. Neill, of Te Kawa, have returned from a most enjoyable holiday spent in the South Island, most of the time being spent at Dunedin and Invercargill.

Mr George Rigg of Kihikihi, is home again after a holiday spent at Cambridge, where he was renewing old friendships and reviewing the progress of the town and district, with which he has been associated well over, fifty years ago.

The Ministerial party visiting Te Awamutu to-morrow in connection with the Housing Department’s activities, intends afterwards to proceed to Otorohanga and Te Kuiti, joining the south-bound express train at the latter centre for Wellington.

Telephoned advice has been received from Mr W. S. Goosman, M.P., to the effect that the Hon. H. T. Armstrong and party will be in Te Awamutu for a few minutes tomorrow, in connection with the Housing Department’s operations here.

Mr R. A. Eeisst, of Cambridge, one of the Waikato delegates to the Auckland provincial conference, last week, of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, has been elected a life member in recognition of long and valued services.

A recent visitor to Te Awamutu was Mrs A. M. Simpson, of Honolulu, who paid a brief visit to her cousin, Miss S. Empson, Teasdale Street, while en route homeward from an extended holiday at Manila. Mrs Simpson had travelled via Sydney and Auckland.

Word received from the Waikato Hospital yesterday concerning the condition of Miss Rae Tailby, daughter of Mr and Mrs A. J. Tailby, Te Awamutu, is that she will probably have an extended stay in hospital, for there are some puzzling aspects, though there is no immediate danger.

Leave of absence was granted, at the annual meeting of Te Awamutu Electric Power Board, to Mr J. B. Teasdale, who, the chairman said, was still indisposed, having suffered a relapse following a bout of influenza. The hope was expressed that Mr Teasdale would soon be restored to normal health.

Superintendent J. C. Henderson completed 25 years’ service with the Te Kuiti Volunteer Fire Brigade on Saturday, and at the annual “smoko” this week will be the recipient of the United Fire Brigades Association’s star for 25 years’ service. Supt. Henderson is the first man in the Te Kuiti Brigade to receive the 25-year star and it is certain that the occasion will be a memorable one in the history of the Brigade. It speaks well for the high esteem in which Mr Henderson is held by the members of the Brigade that for 20 years of his service he has held the position of superintendent.

When Mr J. T. Johnson was re. elected chairman for the twentieth term at the annual meeting on Friday of Te Awamutu Electric Power Board it was remarked that probably he held the New Zealand record in the matter of chairmanship of a Power Board. This remark brought the information that Thames Valley, Te Awamutu, Cambridge, and Southland Power Boards were gazetted at the same time. Te Awamutu held its first statutory annual meeting, and elected its chairman, two days before the Cambridge Board, and as Mr Johnson was elected chairman of the local Board that day, and had held office continuously ever since, he probably holds the record, with Mr Mervyn Wells (chairman of the Cambridge Board) a close second. Mr T. Hinton (Central Waikato) is not far behind the other two.