INGLEWOOD NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1930, Page 14

INGLEWOOD NEWS

A “SNOWSTORM.” (From Our Own Correspondent.) The Governor-General’s visit to Inglewood was marked by a humorous incident on Saturday morning. As Lord and Lady Bledisloe were leaving the town hall an enthusiastic photographer clambered on to one of the window sills of a bakehouse and set about “snapping” Their Excellencies. Suddenly a deluge of flour descended on him from the upper storey window, so that probably Lord and Lady Bledisloe will appear as in a snowstorm in Inglewood. Both the public and the perpetrators enjoyed the joke, but the victim made all haste to scramble into his car and depart from the scene of his ignominy. GOLFERS DEFEATED. golfers suffered a severe beating during the week-end when they visited Eltham and won only one game out of 12. The weather was fine, but a strong wind proved troublesome to the Inglewood players on the strange course. The Inglewood visitors were most hospitably entertained by the Eltham members. DEATH OF A PIONEER. Mrs. Curd, who passed away on Saturday, came to' New Zealand over 56 years ago, from Kilmallock, County Limerick,' Ireland. She was married at New Plymouth and lived at Lepperton and later at Durham Road, where with her late husband she engaged in fanning, having to experience all the hardships and inconveniences of the early days of settlement. About nine years agv Mrs. Curd retired from the farm to live in Inglewood. She w'as of a reserved nature, and was respected and loved by all who knew her for her kind and selfdenying disposition. A family of nine, six sons and three daughters, are left, and there are also 19 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. The funeral took place yesterday afternoon, the large cortege being a testimony to the respect and esteem in which Mrs. Curd was held.