HAWERA ITEMS

Taranaki Daily News, 27 May 1931, Page 11

HAWERA ITEMS

Mrs. G. H. Alexander entertained a number of friends at bridge at Patea during the week, five tables being in progress. The rooms were decorated with autumn leaves and chrysanthe,mums, which gave a pleasing effect. At the conclusion Miss Ruth Alexander presented the prizes to Miss N. Mathieson, Mr. S. Train, Miss J. Hawkins and Mr. J. Daly, Miss Brewer and Mr. Snushall. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. 8. Train, Mr. and Mrs. F. Train, Misses Walkington (2), Mathieson, J. Hawken, M. Brewer, M. Harvey, Train, Roberts (2), Messrs. Train, Rodgers, Honeylield and Snushall.

A pleasant function took place at the residence of Mrs. L. Jones, Kaupokonui, last Wednesday, when Miss Thelma Jones gave a “knick-knack” afternoon for Miss Mabel Wan, who is shortly to be married. Competitions and musical items formed part of the afternoon. The room decorations were in pink and gold chrysanthemums and maidenhair fern. Miss Wan was the recipient of many presents, amongst them being a laundry bouquet, presented to her by Miss Jones who, on behalf, of those present, wished Miss Wan happiness in her future life. Mrs. and Miss Jones received, the guests, the former wearing a blue milesta silk frock with diamante trimming and the latter blue silk. Among those present "were Miss Wan, Mesdames Wan, Sharp, Warren, Carpenter, J, Muggeridge, Watts, Haynes, Taylor, Parker, Burns, Bennett, Millar, Johnstone and Landers, Misses E. Harrison, . A. Parry, Wills, B. Sollicker, D. Wan (Opunake), H. Sehicker, Argus (Opunake) and Muggeridge.

Not All Joy. Thousands of letters; hundreds of begging callers; a never-silent telephone; life a nightmare of interruption. All that because Mrs. Selina Thompson, proprietress of the Station Hotel, Worksop, England, won a £20,000 prize in the Irish National sweepstake on the Manchester November Handicap. The troubles that followed the win helped to drive Mrs. Thompson to Canada on a holiday to forget the disadvantage of being a sweepstake winner. A recent message from Halifax, Nova Scotia, reports that Mrs. Thompson had landed there from the liner Adriatic to escape fortune-hunters in England. “I was driven to distraction by the people who pestered me after my win in the Manchester November Handicap,” said Mrs. Thompson, .‘‘and so I chose the opportunity of coming to Canada on a holiday to see my sister. I hope that when I go back home my sweepstake success will be forgotten.” . Mrs. Thompson travelled in the liner without her name being known, to save being worried on the voyage. Her name was omitted from the list of passengers. “No one can have any idea of what winning a big sweepstake prize means unless they have suffered it,’ said Mrs. Thompson s daughter Muriel to a representative of the Daily- Express. “Mymother slipped quietly away to Canada to be out of all the trouble. Life was almost impossible after mother's win. We were inundated with letters and callers. Everybody in England with something to sell or with some scheme which needed financing seemed to come to us, and then, in addition, there was the host of charitable applications. Why even my own wedding had to be postponed because of the publicity.”