PERSONAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 79, Issue 7101, 31 August 1949, Page 8

PERSONAL

Mrs w. F. Windsor and daughter, of Pukeroro, are the guests of Mr and Mrs L. T. Lynds. Mrs G. A. Gibbs and children, Te Awamutu, arrived on Mionday to spend part of the school vacation in Kawhia. Mr and Mrs Morton Dean returned to their home, Waikeria Road, on Monday after spending a holiday in Kawhia. Rev. W. Bell, who was vicar till lately of the Otorohanga-Kawhia Anglican parish, has proceeded to Tuakau, where he will be in charge of that parish till Christmas. Thereafter Mr and Mrs Bell will retire to Howick. The friends of Mr and Mrs Joseph Mercep, of Te Awamutu and formerly of Kawhia, will regret to learn that, their only daughter Mtyra has, been stricken with illness, necessitating her undergoing a serious operation in Middlemore Hospital, Auckland. Mrs A. L. Kirk, of Auckland, and Miss S. Spens-Black, of Rotorua, arrived in Kawhia on Monday, and are the guests of Mr and Mirs D. R. Kirk. Mr Theo Lynds, school teacher, of Huntly, is spending part of the holidays with his parents, Mr and Mrs T. L. Lynds. Mr and Mirs R. Chandler, of Hamilton, have arrived to spend a prolonged holiday in Kawhia. Mr and Mrs E. D. Kerr, Te Awamutu, are visitors to Kawhia. The death occurred at Auckland on Friday last of Captain Benjamin Houston, M.C., D.C.M., who lived in Kawhia during the depression, when he was in charge of the Public Works Department’s activities. He is survived by Mrs Houston and three stepchildren.

Mr and Mrs R. W. Ridgway, of Marokopa, are spending the school vacation at Rotorua. Mrs Henderson and Miss Henderson, of New Plymouth, are guests of Mr and Mrs W. D. Neal, Marokopa Valley.

Mrs G. D. Lang and family, of Marokopa, have gone to Taumarunui for the school holidays. Mis Les Richards and family, of Puahue, arc spending a holiday in Kawhia. Mys Arthur Randall left Oparau on Monday on a visit to Whangarei. Mr and Mrs T. J. de Lacy and family returned on Saturday from a visit to Hawera.

Attributing his longevity to the faet that from the age of eight years he was given two quarts of old English beer to drink each day, M'r James Blackman celebrated his ninety-sixth birthday lately. Still hale and hearty, Mr Blackman is one of the oldest and probably the best known of Taumarunui’s residents. For some time he has been an inmate of Taumarunui Hospital, but he visits the town frequently to visit his friends. Mr Blackman, who was born at Staplehurst, Kent, England, lived in Auckland for a time before going to the Kururau district, near Taumarunui, in 1921, to take up farming. Rev. John Day, recently appointed vicar to Otorohanga-Kawhia parish, paid a long-week-end visit to Kawhia, during which time he took opportunity to become personally acquainted with his new parishioners, from whom he received a cordial and hearty welcome. He was accompanied by Mrs Day and children. There were large attendances at the services in All Saints’ Church on Sunday. After Evensong a social hour was spent in the Vestry, during ‘which Mr Day stated that he would in future regularly visit Kawhia on the fourth Sunday in the month, when similar gatherings would also be held. He also announced that Mr and Mrs Miartin Oldbury had offered to donate a section alongside the Church, provided a fund was raised with the object of building a Sunday school and social hall.