SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5602, 7 April 1943, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

The Mayor, Mi- L. G. Armstrong, has returned from Wellington.

Miss Scott, of Kinohaku, and Mrs Gilmour, of Oparau, spent the weekend in Te Awamutu.

The death occurred at Te Kawa on Sunday last of Mr Robert Bruce, at the advanced age of 81 years.

The Hon. P. K. Paikea, whose death has occurred, spent many years in the Te Kuiti and Kawhia districts as a Methodist minister, and he was widely known and esteemed in those localities.

A Wellington visitor to Te Awamutu last Monday to attend the funeral of the late Cyril George Goldsbro was Mr Gooey, the well-known Chinese interpreter of that city, and a prominent racing man.

Mrs Violette Tong, who has recently been nursing at the new Greenlane Hospital (Auckland), is at present staying with her parents, Mr and Mrs W. G. Bonner, of Alexandra Street.. She has received advice that her husband, Major E. J. Tong, formerly of Te Kuiti and Otorohanga, is again in the forward fighting in Tunisia. Major Tong has completed three and a half years’ service, and has been in Egypt, Greece, Syria, and Tunisia. Prior to volunteering on the outbreak of the war he was a keen territorial attached to the 16th Waikato Regiment, where he gained his commission while under the command of Colonel ’Mackesev of Te Kuiti.