SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4233, 19 January 1940, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mix- and Mrs A; E. Ray and Miss Isobel Ray,, of Pokura, are' visiting Wellington.

Mrs A. O. Law"and family, of Pokuru, are spending a holiday at Kawhia.

M-rs H. O’Connor has returned to Kawhia after three weeks spent at Cambridge.

Mr and Mrs S. S. Preston, of Teasdale Street, returned last evening from a holiday spent at Takapuna.

Mr and Mrs J. J. Karl, of Pokuru, have been south to visit the Centennial Exhibition.

Mrs J. A. Hawkins, Sloane Street, has returned from a visit paid to relatives in the Kaipara district.

The Misses N. McKay and P. Smith, of Wellington, are the guests of Mrs O. Dalziel, of Otorohanga.

Mrs M. Oates, of Te Mawhai, left by cax- this afternoon to spend a holiday of several weeks’ duration at the Thames coast. (Mrs E. Boswell and Mrs D. R. McLeay, of Pokuru, are on a visit to Wiellington to attend the Centennial Exhibition.

.Mr and Mrs James King, of Auckland, are visiting Te Awamutu as the guests of Mrs Sherwood, of Mahoe Street.

Mj- H. Arnold, of Otorohanga, is at present an inmate of the Waikato Hospital, where he has undergone a throat operation.

Mir and Mrs E. Paul, of Spreydon, Christchurch, have arrived in Te Awamutu to spend a week or so with relatives.

Mr and Mrs T. Wenham, of Waikato Heads, have been visiting Pokuru as the guests of Mrs Wonham’s mother, Mrs Fraser.

Mr Richard Dean, of Otorohanga, has left fox: the South Island, where he will spend a holiday with relatives.

Mrs and Miss Lawrenson, of Christchurch, have been recent visitors to Otorohanga, where they were the guesjs of Mr and Mrs J. Anderson.

The local Bowling Club closed its Victoria Park greens on W/ednesday afternoon as a mark of respect to the- memory of the late Ml- J. T. North, a former president.

Mr and Mrs Alex Burrell, of Otorohapga, are spending a motoring holiday in the southern provinces, and !will visit the Centennial Exhibition. '

Mt P. Baikie, of Otorohanga Post Office staff, is, with Mrs Baikie, at present spending his extended annual leave on a motoring tour of the South Island.

Mr C, S. Reynolds, stationmaster at Otorohanga, who has not enjoyed good health of late, recently underwent; a successful operation for appendicitis qt a private hospital in Auckland. He is now doing well.

Mrs S. H. West, of Pokuru, is visiting Auckland, where hex- daughter, Miss Beryl West, recently underwent an operation by an eye specialist in the public hospital. Latest information is to the effect that there is every indication tljat the operation will prove entirely successful.

Rev. W. Mills, a former wellknown Te Awamutu resident, is at present revisiting Te Awamutu, and is the guest of Mr and Mrs G. W. Mairs, Jackson Street. Mr Mills is, we learn,. to conduct the service on Sunday morning at the local Methodist Church.

Mr T. W. Thompson, of Hamilton, past District Grand Mastex- of the Oddfellows’ Lodge, and a large number of members of the local Lodge (of which deceased was a foundation member and past N.G.) attended the funeral of the late Mr J. T. North on Wednesday afternoon, all wearing the regalia of the fraternity.

Messrs Franklin (Paeroa) and W. WJ. Mixingay (Te Aroha), present and past presidents respectively, represented the South Auckland Bowling Centre at the funeral of the late Mr J. T. North in Te AWamutu on Wednesday afternoon. Mr North was one of the best-known bowlers in 'the province, and besides being president of the local Club a dozen years ago he was for three years president of the Centre and a valued membex- of the executive for many years. •

No direct information has been received from Seaman Gordon West, of H.M.S. Achilles, by his parents, Mland Mrs S. H. West, of Pokuru, since the engagement off the South American coast with the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee. Official advice (already published) gave only the names of New Zealand members of the crew who were either killed ox- wounded in the engagement, but Seaman West’s name did not appear therein, so his parents assume that he is alive and well. It is hoped there will be news by the next air mail, due in a few days.

The transportation superintendent of the New Zealand Railways, Mr G. T. Wilson; will retire on January 22 after 41 years of service, anxl his place will be taken by Mr A. L. Smith, district traffic manager at Wellington. Mr Wilson jollied the department at Dunedin as a cadet. He came to headquarters in 1917. From 1924 to 1928 he was associated with the commercial branch as chief clerk and senior business agent, and represented the department at a number of conferences of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, the Farmers’ Union and other organisations, and introduced the. System of inter-island through booklhg of goods and parcels, and the present system of the reservation of seats. From 1932 to 1935 lie was district traffic manager at and then, was appointed to the post he is now relinquishing.