SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4403, 17 March 1941, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Miss Jean Dudley, of Mangapiko, is visiting Opotiki.

Pilot-Officer L. B. Renolds, of Waipukurau, who is on final leave, is the guest of Mr and Mrs A. D. Cairns, Te Rahu.

Mr and Mrs J. T. Johnson, who have been visiting the Wellington and Wairarapa districts, have returned to Te Awamutu.

Pilot-Officer L. R. Renolds, of the training staff of Whenuapai, spent the week-end as the guest of Mr and Mrs A. D. Cairns, of Te Rahu.

The Rev. A. McNeur has been granted six months’ leave of absence by th§ Christchurch Presbytery and appointed chaplain to the Forces.

Mr and Mrs G. A. Bowden, Bank Street, returned yesterday after a fortnight’s visit to Mrs Bowden’s sister, Mrs F. D. Wood, of “Coldstream,” Drury.

Foreman L. W. Spence, who has been representing the local Fire Brigade at the annual conference at Blenheim, returned to Te Awamutu on Saturday morning.

The engagement is announced between Charles Arthur, second son of Mr and the late Mrs H. B. Trubshoe of Napier, and Ivy Clare Jean, daughter of Mrs and the late Mr S. Ferguson, of Rewi Street.

Mr B. J. Phillips, who has been connected with the clerical staff of the Public Works Department at Tokanui for some considerable time past, has been transferred to Hamilton for which place he leaves tomorrow.

At the annual meeting of the Northern King Country Executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, Mr V. W. Simms was re-elected President, Mr W. I. Bowyer, Vice-President, and Messrs Lurman, Bowyer, Mason and Hobern, Delegates to the annual conference.

The many friends of Mrs Arnold Patterson, of Fraser Street, will be pleased to hear that she is now well on the way to a complete recovery from her recent serious illness. It is expected that Mrs Patterson may be sufficiently recovered to be able to leave the Hamilton Hospital at the end of the present week.

The appointment of Mr E. Caradus, B.Sc., as chief inspector of secondary schools in succession to Mr E. J. Parr, who is retiring on superannuation at the end of the month, has been announced. Mr Caradus is an old boy of the Auckland Grammar School and a graduate of the Auckland University College.

Cabled advice has been received of the death in London of Mr Wyvern Wilson, who retired from the position of senior stipendiary magistrate in Auckland some three years ago. Mr Wilson was a member of an old New Zealand family, his grandfather, the Rev. J. A. Wilson, of the Church Missionary Society, having arrived here more than one hundred years ago. His father was the late Mr J. A. Wilson, Judge of the Native Land Court. The late Mr Wilson was well known in Te Awamutu, where he frequently presided at the Magistrate’s Court.

Mr Oscar Natzke, the well-known singer, told a Wellington interviewer that he has made plans for some time ahead. Toward the end of next month he is to leave for America where he is to tour in concert under the management of Messrs Boosey and Hawke, an engagement which will occupy him for the best part of 12 months. What will happen after that is in the lap of the gods, but he hoped that before very long England will have asserted her authority as the guardian of sanity, freedom and justice, and so allovr. people to live their lives under normal conditions.

Friends in Wellington have received advice from England that Mr W. S. Percy, formerly a leading comedian with Pollard and J. C. Williamson musical comedy companies, has broken down in health. After being bombed out of his home, Mr Percy has been serving in London’s auxiliary fighting forces, and the strenuous work and broken rest at length began to tell on his health. But his spirit was still wonderful, and he was actually entertaining the patients in a big London hospital when he collapsed on the make-shift stage, and had to join the patients for a time. Mr Percy has a daughter on the staff of the High Commissioner of (New Zealand in Lopdon.