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TEKAPO

POPULAR HOLIDAY RESORT Over the holidays, a record number of visitors collected at Tekapo, and its popularity as a holiday resort is growing rapidly. Accommodation was fully taxed, including temporary tents and in addition, the motor camping grounds had many tents pitched under the trees on the lake shore. On Wednesday night there were still more than 40 visitors at Takapo House. Guests over the holidays were: Mr A. H. Allen, Mr and Mrs J. ShawThompson and family, Mr and Miss Walton and Miss Patrick, Misses J, D. and M. Morris, Misses M. and A. Campbell, Mr and Mrs Kenneth Graham, Mrs Picker, Miss Hartstorn, Mr and Mrs Smart, senr., Mr and Mrs Smart, junr., Mr and Mrs Herbert Price, Mr and Mrs Todd, Miss E. Ashworth, Mr and Mrs Douglas Bennie. Miss Maddren, Mr and Mrs (Dunedin).

Colonel and the Hon. Mrs O. M. Harris, Mr and Mrs Tanner, Mrs A. Hume and daughter, Mrs D. Walker and daughters, Mr and Mrs Rose (England).

Mr and Mrs J. Lewis, Mrs W. J. Thompson, Mrs David Horn (Wellington), Mr and Mrs Henry Wyatt, Mrs Norton Taylor, Mr and Mrs A. Hazelton, Mr and Mrs M. O. Cooper and Miss Cooper, Mr Victor Barrow, Mr Fred Dunn and son. Miss E. Williams, Miss Mudie, Mr and Mrs Reading, Mr R. C. Holcroft, Mr R. Best, Miss Henderson, Miss Simpson, Mr and Mrs Schmall (Christchurch).

Captain Oliver, R.N., and Mrs Oliver, Mr and Mrs W. H. Munns, Mr and Mrs Raymond Sheath (Auckland), Misses Bremner (Temuka), Mr R. Kennedy and Miss and Master Kennedy, Mr T. Heenan, Mr Moller (Ashburton), Mrs Walter Shaw and Miss H. Shaw, Mrs D. Anderson and child, Miss E.-n--aldsoii (Timaru).

CYCLE AND ATHLETIC CLUB At the weekly meeting of the Fairlie Cycle and Athletic Club, those present were: Messrs John Macdonald (president), E. B. Taylor. George Dunn. R. McC. Fergusson, A. H. Saunders, D. W. Cuthill. Andrew Pryde, F. M. Geaney, R. J. Creighton. A. H. Carlton. H. A. Baker, J. M. Burt, W. L. Bourn and H. C. Oldham. Next week’s programme was fixed as iOllows: Sealed handicap cycle road race to Albury and back, boys’ quartermile cycle track race, 220 yards and one mile, school girls’ 75 yards, pole vaulting, long jump, shot putt and women’s long jump. A feature of the following week’s programme will be a Mackenzie handicap of 120 yards with £5 in prizes. VITAL STATISTICS or 1937, there was a decrease in births and deaths and an increase in marriages in the Mackenzie County, according to figures supplied yesterday by the Registrar, Mr G. R. Bernev. With the figures for 1937 in parenthese, the returns for the last year are as follows: Birth 29 (39), Deaths 10 (11), marriages 12 (10). HEAVY RAIN Heavy rain fell in Fairlie early .i Wednesday morning, and the recording taken by Mr C. Searle was .90 inches. At Albury up to 9 a.m. .75 inches was recorded by Mr F. J. Davison. Rape and turnips not drowned out or choked by weeds should trrow into good crops. Nor’-west Gather yesterday would help to harden pastures. PERSONAL Miss Hazel Button. Christchurch, who spent the New Year holidays with Mrs H. A. Munro. Kimbell. has returned home. Mr and Mrs H. G. Shanks have returned to Fairlie after a short stay with Mrs A. A. Barron. Kimbell.

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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20929, 7 January 1938, Page 4

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TEKAPO Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20929, 7 January 1938, Page 4

TEKAPO Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20929, 7 January 1938, Page 4