SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4534, 9 February 1942, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mr and Mrs S. Clark are at present on a vfsit to Tauranga.

Miss Ethel Wallace, of Fraser Street, has left on a visit to Napier.

Mr Jack Jones, of Te Kuiti, has been appointed a Justice of the Peace.

Mrs T. W. Dibble, of Hairini, has returned home after spending a fortnight’s holiday in Wellington.

Miss I. Johns has been appointed to the Te Kuiti school as a specialist in physical education. .

Mrs F. L. Dunn, of Sloane Street, leaves to-morrow on a visit to Auckland arid Helensville. .

Mr Tom Atkins, of Teasdale Street, left this morning on a visit to Tauranga.

Mrs G. Ahier, of Auckland, is at present on a visit to Te Awamutu, being the guest of Mrs M. Dawson, College Street.

The. appointment of Mr F. G. Mexted. as sole teacher at the Awamarino school has been approved by the Auckland Education Board.

Mr and Mrs W. H. Wilson, of Hangatiki, have left to spend an extended holiday in Nelson and other parts of the South Island.

Mrs T. Atkins, of Teasdale Street, has returned to Te Awamutu after spending several weeks With her daughter, Mrs P. C. Ryan, of Te Puke.

Miss Beryl Horrobin, formerly of the staff of the Te Kuiti school, has been appointed to the position of sole teacher at the Pukehuia Public Works camp.

Mrs Graham Macky is at present relieving mistress at the Pokuru school, in place of Mr A. H. M. Smith, who is now at the Woodhill school, Helensville.

Mr H. E. McClelland, inspector of machinery and surveyor of ships at Greymouth, will leave next month on transfer to blew Plymouth. He will be replaced at Greymouth by Mr A. Mackenzie, of Hamilton.

Advice has been received by Mr and Mrs G. Banfield, of Te Kuiti, that their son, Signalman Fred Banfield, is safe and well. This is the first news that has been received from him for two months.

Mr R. Bagge, of the Geological Survey Department, Greymouth, has been transferred to the staff of the State Mines Department, and has left for Mangapehi, to take up the position of surveyor.

Messrs R. Noonan, H. Coombes and W. Douglas, who have been attending the bowling tournament at Rotorua, returned to Te Awamutu by train on Saturday afternoon. Remarkable to relate, the tournament was won by the father of Mt Coombes.

The many friends;,of Mr A. V. Cole will regret to learn that he is at present an inmate of the Waikato Hospital, suffering from a poisoned hand and arm. He is responding well to treatment, but it may be some little time ere it is carried to a successful conclusion.

Mr Howard Tiffen Haselden, of Young Street, who is now in camp with .the National Military Reserve, has been appointed a Justice of the Peace. ' In- a lengthy list, gazetted last week, the following names also appear:; Mr A. K. Hogarth, of Te Rau-a-Moa, and Mr W. W. Nelson, of Otewa Road, Otorohanga.

Sister: Eileen Montefiore, daughter of Mr and Mrs J. C. Montefiore, of Te Awamutu, who holds high diplomas in the nursing profession, has returned to town after being on the nursing staff of the Wakefield Private Hospital, Auckland, and has assumed the matronship of Matariki Private Hospital.

Mrs M t L. F. Schou, of Te Kuiti, has received a cable from her husband stating that he is safe and well. Driver Walter Schou was previously reported missing, but later officially declared to be safe at base camp, and is believed to be one of the prisoners that were released when Bardia was recaptured.-

Mrs W. Ryan, of Mangapiko Street, has received private cables concerning her three sons serving with the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force in; the Middle East. Sapper F. T. (“Skin”) Ryan, who was a prisoner of war, has been released and 1 rejoined his u|iit. The cable stated that he and his two brothers, Corporal W. J. (“Bill”) : Ryan and Sapper W. J. S. (“Wallie”) Ryan were well.

The list of the successful candidates in the School Certificate examination, which ivas held in November, includes the following:—David H. Andrew, Alan J. Bedford, Ena Godfree and Lorna E. Pi vac (all of Te Awamutu), and P. D. Mountfort and G. A. Sutton (Otorohanga). The following secured partial passes: Richard D. Kenealy, Beatrice M. McLean, E. A. (“Betty”) Moyle, Beth. E. Onion, Donald C. Price arid Alan Shirtcliffe (Te Awamutu) and E. R. Barton and J. M. M'exted (Otorohanga). Other passes for the full certificate were secured by V. E. ("Betty”) Dunn arid Heather M. Oliphant.

The business of the House of Commans, London, was in abeyance for half an hour recently while members joined in honouring their speaker, Captain Algernon Fitzßoy, who was celebrating his golden wedding. The speaker’s wife, his daughter, in V.A.D. uniform, and his two sons, both naval officers, were in the public gallery. “We have searched the records of Parliament for generations, century after century, until we have reached the times of Mr Speaker Rous in 1653, before which time the occupants of the chair held their tenure for shorter and more precarious periods, said Mr Churchill amidst laughter. “In all that long range of Parliamentary history there has been no occasion when the Speaker of the House of Commons has celebrated his golden wedding while occupying the chair.”