EGMONT VILLAGE NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 23 February 1935, Page 18 (Supplement)

EGMONT VILLAGE NEWS

GENERAL AND PERSONAL NEWS. The Egffibrit Village hall committee field a dance in the, hall on Tuesday, When there was a splendid attendance, including dancers from New Plymouth, Inglewood arid all neighbouring districts. Music was supplied by the Maori String band, while extras were played by Mrl C. Hfirlstofie. Messrs- Drydfen, J. Drinkwater afid R. Guilford acted as masters of ceremony in turn, Monte Carlo waltzes were won by Mr. N. Marsh and Miss Gyde and Mf. R. Hurlstone and Miss E. O’Byme. Mr. and Mrs. Gray, who have been Spending a holiday as the guests of Mfk Gyde, Uplahd Road, have feturned to Wanganui. Mrs. A. Morton has returned frofti a Visit to Mrs. Huggins, Bell Block. Egmont Village was well represented at a meeting to' make but a ftfogramffie bf events at which to raise funds for baby Janet Taylor’s candidature; the Egmbnt Village-Kaimirb queen. A committee was formed and all arrangements made for a series of amufehmeflts during the month’s campaign. AUROA PERSONALS. ( Mr. L. McPhillips is visiting Wellington and the south. Mrs. A. D. Black, Christchurch, who lived for many years in South Taranaki, is visiting the district, and renewing bld friendships. Mr. and Mrs. Black were among those of the old pioneers in the early days, on Palmer Rbacl. - Miss Hornby, Manaia, is the guest bf Mrs. T. J. Ross. Mr. T. Haworth has left the Hawera hospital and is convalescing with his brother, Mr. V?. Haworth, Te Awamutu Mr. J. Stewart, who has again been an inmate bf the Hawera hospital, has returned. . Mr. S, Nuku is visiting Hawkes Bay. Mr. Nuku, jnr, Taikatu Road, fractured his thigh and is in hospital. Mrs. Ewens, sfir, Oeo Road,-is ift the Hawera hospital. Mr. Gordon Kirk and Mr. Alan Webby have returned from hospital. Miss Johnstone, Christchurch, is Visiting relatives at Auroa. Mrs. Vooght is visiting the district. Mrs. Ludlow is visiting relatives at New Plymouth.

The visit of the English women’s cricket team to New Zealand has evidently given a fillip to the game ambngst the fair sex in the Dominion. Cricket is being taken up seriously in the Auckland Teachfers’ Training College, which has just opened again. Sufficient of the students there have taken up the gafne to enable eight tearfis to be formed and these are now practising in preparation for a competition which is to be held among the college teams. A meeting held for the election bf the captains of the eight teams resulted in three New Plymouth students, Misses Alison White, Betty Richardson and Nita Garcia being selected as captains of their teams.