SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4235, 24 January 1940, Page 6

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Miss K. Fullerton, of Te Kawa, has been visiting Mrs L. G. Laird, of Ngarua.

MJr A. G. Yardley, manager of the Morrinsville Star, was a visitor to Te Awamutu yesterday.

Miss W’. Duncan, of Wiharepuhunga, is spending a fortnight’s vacation at the Thames Coast.

Mr and Mrs H. R. Clarke and family have returned to Pokuru after a very enjoyable holiday at Kawffia.

Mr and Mrs A. A. Candy and family of Pokuru are spending a holiday at Kawhia.

Mr and Mrs T. E. Turner and family have returned to Pokuru after a pleasant holiday at Takapuna Beach.

M|r and Mrs J. J. Karl have returned to Pokuru after visiting Wellinvton and the Exhibition.

Mr and Mrs S. Harris, of Pokuru, are visiting Wellington and will see the exhibition before returning home.

Mr W. Mackenzie, College Street, left yesterday for the south, where he intends to enjoy a quiet holiday for two or three weeks.

Mrs W. Mackenzie, and her daughter Frances, who have been visiting Wellington and neighbourhood for several weeks, are expected home again on Friday morning.

Mrs J. G. Kirkham and family, of Ngahape, arrived home yesterday after a very enjoyable month’s holiday spent at Kawhia beach.

Miss Dorothy Jeffery, who has been spending a holiday with her mother, Mrs Wl. Jeffery, Alexandra Street, left for Wellington on Monday evening.

His Majesty the King has been pleased to approve of an extension for six months of the term of office of Colonel the Right. Hon. Viscount Galway, G.C.M.G., D. 5.0., 0.8. E., as Governor-General of New Zealand.

Mrs H. Wing, of Frontier Road, accompanied by her sister, Miss Nancy Armstrong, of Cambridge, has gone south on a visit to the Centennial Exhibition.

Mrs A. J. Wyllie with her two sons, Gordon and Noel, and Mrs M. H. Tims and Miss Helen Tims, of Frontier Road, left this morning for Tauranga, where they intend spending a week’s vacation at the Mount.

Mr H. Steer returned a few days ago from a very successful fishing excursion, with a couple of friends, to Lake Taupo. Good sport was enjoyed, and the Te Awamutu man reports that the trout are in excellent condition and affording wonderful sport.

Captain J. Oliphant, M,.C., of Te Awamutu, and a former president of the .local Returned Soldiers’ Association, who was passed fit some weeks ago for active military service, has lately received official intimation that the age limit debars him from overseas service.

Mr A. J. Sinclair leaves for Wellington to-night to attend the Burns Night function which will be held tomorrow night by the combined Scottish societies. Mr Sinclair is the speaker of the evening, and will give the customary address on the Immortal Bard. The function will be broadcast by 2YC, Wellington, at 8 p.m.

The victim of the accident near Greymouth last Saturday morning when Mr Arthur Jacobs, a well-known farmer was fatally gored by a bull, was an uncle of Mrs L. .A Johnston, of Mutu Street, Te Awamutu. It seems that before milking commenced Mr Jacobs was removing the bull to another paddock when art suddenlyattacked him, knocking him down and inflicting grave injuries before a daughter arrived to rescue Mr J scobs from the vicious beast.

Mr and Mrs Perry formerly of Kihikihi and now of Epsom, Auckland, are spending a day or two re-visiting this district. Mr Perry was, something like a quarter of a century ago, headmaster at Kihikihi School, and he says the district has developed so much that he has difficulty in picking out once-familiar localities. He is astonished at the growth of Te Awamutu and neighbourhood, and expresses keen appreciation at the opportunity he has had of meeting many old associates of the days when he was dominie at Kihikihi.

The sad intelligence was received by Dr A, G. Gouston, of the medical staff of Tokanui Hospital, on Monday evening that his wife’s brother-in-law, Dr W. A. Johnston, was one of the victims of the crash in which a Royal Netherlands Indies Airways liner was involved during a flight from Singapore to Sydney. The liner crashed into the sea about six miles from the coast of Bali, in the Netherlands East Indies. All five passengers, of which Dr Johnston was one, perished, and of the crew, only one, a mechanic, was saved, though he had sustained a broken leg and other injuries. Dr Johnston’s wife is at present visiting her sister at Tokanui. Her husband had been for some years an officer of the Health Department at Shanghai, China, and had been there during all the troublous times that developed when Japan invaded South and Central China. He had recently resigned, and planned to spend some time in New Zealand before going on to take up an appointment in the United States. To his widow and young daughter- will be accorded sincere sympathy in their tragic bereavement.