SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 58, Issue 4192, 2 June 1939, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mr J. M. Quin, Otorohanga, left on his annual leave on Wednesday for Taranaki and Wanganui districts where he proposed to compete in golf tournaments. Mr and Mrs G. B. Melrose leave on Monday on a visit to Hawke’s Bay, Mr Melrose availing himself of annual holiday leave. Mr Garnet Arrowsmith, a former solicitor of Otorohanga, has been revisiting the town prior to his return to his Taupo home. Mr and Mrs A. P. Grey, of Castor Bay (Takapuna) and formerly of Otorohanga, are re-visiting the place, and are the guests of Mr and Mrs H. E. Lawrence. Mr C. T. Burkett, of’ Pokuru, has left on a holiday visit to Taranaki, and is the guest of his sister, Mrs Goodwin, of the Dominion Hotel, Hawera. Mr K. L. Bedlington, New Zealandborn surveyor, of Malaya, Straits Settlements, is at present re-visiting Otorohanga, where he formerly practised his profession. Mr Thomas Connell, of Makuri (Forty Mile Bush), is at present on a visit to Otorohanga, where he is the guest of his sister, Mrs H. M. Quin. s Mrs H. Lines is at present a patient at “Matariki” Hospital, where she is being treated for injuries received as the result of a motor accident on Sunday of last week. Her condition is improving.

Mr Spenceley Walker, 8.A., a former headmaster of the local school —in fact the first headmaster of the District High School, is visiting Te Awamutu for the diamond jubilee celebrations to-morrow. Amongst the successful candidates at the recent technical wiremen’s examination was Mr Norman Sager, on the staff of Mr T. P. Quick, of Te Awamutu. We understand that Mr Sager gained a particularly high percentage of marks. Miss Ogden, who is to have charge of the Plunket Society display at the Centennial Exhibition in Wellington, is visiting Te Awamutu, and this afternoon she is to give an address in the Town Hall to members of the local branch and all others interested in the work of the organisation. Mr Francis D. Wood, headmaster of the Te Awamutu School during the decade from 1905, is re-visiting Te Awamutu for the jubilee Celebrations to-morrow. He was an interested spectator at the opening of the new intermediate school building on Wednesday. Mr Noel Smith, for many years resident in Otorohanga, has accepted a position with the Whakatane County as noxious weeds inspector. Mr Smith was the successful applicant from a list of 160 applying for the position. At present he occupies a similar position with the Otorohanga County. Mr L. S. Armstrong was elected chairman of the Te Awamutu Primary School Committee at the meeting last night, succeeding Mr G. B. Melrose, who has resigned. Mr Armstrong has been a member of the Committee for several years, and on occasions has been called upon to deputise for Mr Melrose. Mr A. Meharry, of Motumaoho, who was re-elected chairman of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Dairy Factory Managers’ Association at this week’s conference in Hamilton, passed through Te Awamutu recently, where he was the guest of his sister-in-law, Mrs W. Mensforth.’Tif Bank Street. A very fine enlarged photograph, framed, of Mr George C. J. Dalton, the 1936 Rhodes Scholar, was presented during the opening ceremonies at the new Intermediate School last Wednesday afternoon. It was from Mr G. Dalton, Teasdale Street, who presented it to the school to be hung in what is now the Primary School, where the Rhodes Scholar received his first schooling. The gift was gladly accepted, and Mr Dalton was warmly applauded for his contribution to the school’s list of honoured students, for the subject of the photograph was always a popular student, and everybody wishes him well in his further studies. Mr Dalton, B-Sc., 8.E., leaves within the next two or three months for England to enter Oxford University. I During the official opening of the new Intermediate High School at Te Awamutu on Wednesday afternoon the chairman (Mr G. B- Melrose) read a letter of greetings and good wishes from Mr Ronald Donaldson, a former pupil, who is now a student at the Royal Military College at Duntroon, New South Wales, near' Canberra, the Federal capital. The writer had the distinction of being one of the three candidates successful for admission to the college last year from the whole of New Zealand, and naturally his school-mates, especially those in the School Cadet Corps, and the masters, are very proud of him. Another message from an absentee was that from Mr C. J. Murphy, formerly headmaster at Kihikihi School, who also wished the new school long years of success and a pleasant opening ceremony.