TEMUKA OUR WAY OF SAYING THANK YOU

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21103, 1 August 1938, Page 3

TEMUKA OUR WAY OF SAYING THANK YOU

Maoris Express Gratitude Prominent Officials Entertained “This is our way of saying thank you to you good people who have been kind to us in the past,’’ said Mr T. H. Paiki, chairman of the Arowhenua Maori Runanga, when receiving the invited guests to the powhiri and welcome accorded by the Arowhenua Maoris to the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, yesterday afternoon. “It was our original intention to make this function one purely for Maoris alone, but after careful consideration we decided to ask you to be with us as we offer hospitality to our Ministerial head.” Invited guests were the Mayor of Temuka (Mr A. W. Buzan) and Mrs A. W. Buzan, the enairaan of the Geraldine County Council (Mr K. Mackenzie), and Mrs Mackenzie, the Certifying Officer (Mr L. W. Parrant) and Mrs Parrant, the teachers of the Arowhenua Native School (Misses H. and E. Bremner), the president of the Temuka Labour Representation Committee (Mr D. O’Connor) and Mrs O’Connor, Judge J. Harvey of the Native Land Court, and the Assistant-Post-master (Mr F .A. Taylor) and Mrs Taylor. Mr Buzan replied, saying that the Maoris were a most important section of -iie district's community, and the pakehas were always pleased to help them. Dr. Scannell said he considered it a signal honour to be thus entertained, and that the scene was typical of Maori hospitality. He thought, though, that small services done for the Maoris were sometimes greatly magnified in their eyes, and he felt humbly grateful for the invitation. After the Ministerial party arrived and had been greeted in conformity with Maori custom, there was a banquet and songs were sung by Miss Mercia Rehu, Mrs J. Rehu, Mr H. Whaitiri and Mr Kiri Rehu. Action songs were sung by Mesdames H. Te Reinga, B. Leonard, J. Spencer, E. Gillum, Misses Freda Waaka, Betty and Ranui Rehu, and N. Wixon. The accompanists were Mesdames Kingl Rehu and Mrs W. Hopa. Finally Mr E. T. Tirikatene, M.P. for Southern Maori, sang a solo and a duet with Mr J. Rickus. OBITUARY MRS SARAH BOYD The funeral of Mrs Sarah Boyd, who died at Christchurch, took place at the Temuka cemetery, where in the presence of a large gathering the Rev. W. F. Nichol conducted the services. The pall bearers were Messrs W. McCully, W. Galbraith, H. Milliken, W. Boyd, R. Galbraith and J. McCully. Born in County Down, Northern Ireland, in 1861, Miss Sarah McCully married Mr W. Boyd in 1882 and came straight to New Zealand where they settled at Rainclifl, near Pleasant Point. Two years later they took land near Bulmer, and after a few years there Mr and Mrs Boyd farmed country in the Clandeboye district. Not long after they had moved to a better farm in Factory Road, Mr Boyd died, and their son James took over the land Mrs Boyd settled in Temuka, where she made many friends, and lived there until her death. Deceased is survived by five daughters and one son: Mesdames J. Miller (Christchurch), S. Scott (Lowcliff), B. Bond (Coldstream), M. Galbraith (Timaru), M. Streeter (Christchurch), and Mr James Boyd (Factory Road, Temuka) . PERSONAL Misses Elsie Simpson and Miss Rita Syder, Mrs Duncan McDonald and Mr Gordon Trotman, of Christchurch, were the guests of Mr and Mrs R. J. G. Simpson, Temuka, during the weekend. ELITE THEATRE “BIG CITY” “Big City,” an original story written and produced by Norman Krasna, brilliant young New York playwright now devoting his talents to the screen, will be seen at the Elite Theatre tonight with Luise Rainer and Spencer Tracey co-starred. Here is no crude attempt to reveal the machinery of a metropolis as a whole. On the contrary, it is a cunning unique story of a single slice of life in a great city and the adventures of a taxi driver in a struggle to survive. Tracy, the good priest in “San Francisco,” and later the Portuguese fisherman in “Captains Courageous,” becomes the husky-voiced cynical hackman, bold to the point of dare-deviltry, fair and square and a hard man in a battle. Miss Rainer, Academy Award winner as Anna Held in "The Great Ziegfeld,” later O-Lan, the Chinese farm wife in “The Good Earth,” is an immigrant girl who is his wife and sooi. to be the mother of his child.