SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4536, 13 February 1942, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs S. G. Clist is at present on a visit to Auckland.

Messrs A. H. Tutty, B. M. Marshall, J. W. Walters, and P. Saunders left Otorohanga this morning to enter a military camp.

Miss Betty Bygrave arrived from Wellington this morning, and is the guest of her father, Mr A. Bygrave, Park Road.

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 J. Burns has returned to New Plymouth after a visit to Otorohanga, where she was the guest of Mrs W. Brittenden, Te Kawa Road.

Miss Doreen Hanna has left on a Visit to Christchurch, where she hopes to recuperate her health. She is the guest of her grandmother, Mrs M. Hanna.

Mr and Mrs ,G. S. Hall, of Hairini, who have been spending a .holiday in Auckland, returned home yesterday afternoon.

Mrs B. J. Daisley arrived from Waharoa yesterday afternoon and is the guest of her sister, Mrs J. T. Young, Frontier Road.

The Rev. B. F. Carlisle, of the Baptist Church, Feilding, is spending a few days with his parents, the Rev. and Mrs Forde Carlisle, Teasdale Street. He will take the evening service at the Baptist Church on Sunday evening.

The first child from the Otorohanga district to win a Government Maori scholarship left on Monday last to attend Hukarere College, Napier. She is Ngawaina Kohi, of Honikiwi, aged 13 years, and daughter of Mr W. Kohi, chairinan of the Honikiwi School Committee.

A distinguished visitor to Otorohanga is the Rev. John F. Goldie, who for forty years ha#‘seen missionary service in the Solomon Islands, which were recently attacked by the Japanese. The reverend gentleman has had many stirring experiences with the head-hunters of the Pacific, and their transformation has become an epic in missionary history.

Mr J, K. Scott, a student at Canterbury College, has been successful in gaining a pass in the third stage of engineering mathematics in the recent degree examinations. He is a son of Mr Stan Scott, who for a number of years was in business as a hairdresser and tobacconist in Otorohanga, ana now resides at Rintoul Street, Westport.

His many friends and well-wishers will regret to learn that no improvement is reported in the condition of the Rev. Matthew Calder, curate of St. John’s Church, Te Awamutu, who has been laid up at his home at Auckland for some week’s past suffering from rheumatic fever. Mr Calder’s medical advisers have now ordered him to Rotorua to undergo a month’s special treatment.

A visitor to the town yesterday afternoon and this morning was Mr J. T. Mackley, engineer for New Zealand to the Atlantic Oil Company. Mr Mackley was one of the Rough Riders at the time of the Boer War, and his son, Pilot-Officer W. K. Mackley, followed in his father’s footsteps by serving his King and country on this occasion. The latter has recently been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Mr and Mrs Mark Cowley, of Pirongia Road, Otorohanga, yesterday celebrated their golden wedding. They have been in the district for nearly 50 years. Formerly manager of Messrs Ellis and Burnand’s Otorohanga sawmill, Mr Cowley has been farming for over thirty years. He was one of the early members of the Otorohanga Town Board, having sat with Mr J. Ormsby and Mr R. J. Osmond in 1911-1912. Before the Waitomo Caves Road was opened, Mr Cowley conducted parties of tourists through the Caves, leaving Otorohanga after, finishing work at the mill, travelling all night through the bush, cutting his way with a slasher in some places, and returning in time for the party to catch the train in the morning. Mrs Cowley has always taken a keen interest in the affairs of the Presbyterian Church, and is a willing worker for the Patriotic Committee. There are three children and seven grandchildren.