TEMUKA CAR FOR DISTRICT NURSE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21184, 3 November 1938, Page 3

TEMUKA CAR FOR DISTRICT NURSE

Purchase Absolutely Necessary Decision of Committee Within a week the District Nurse of Temuka will be supplied with a motor car. This statement was made to a reporter of “The Timaru Herald” by the Mayor, Mr A. W. Buzan, yesterday afternoon. Mr Buzan said the nurse had been very busy during the winter and the spring, and had had such a strenuous time covering her extensive territory that it had been found absolutely necessary to purchase a car. The question of buying a car was discussed by the District Nurse Committee which appointed Mr R. A. Lyall, Dr A. S. McInnes, Nurse Gregory, and the Mayor, as a sub-committee with power to act in the matter. With Temuka as the centre, the area covered by the nurse includes Milford, Clandeboye, Orton, Winchester, Waltohi and Arowhenua, Mr Buzan continued. The committee thought that the district at Pleasant Point could also be taken in, but before this could be fixed it was necessary to confer with the South Canterbury Hospital Board on the subject. “The services of the nurse are greatly appreciated and residents in the district are recognising the value of her work,” added Mr Buzan. Discussing the finances of the committee, Mr Buzan said that they had £l's/16/- in hand. This included the proceeds of the recent community sing arranged by the Temuka branch of Toe H, £lB/16/-, for which the mayor was greatly appreciative. MILITARY BIVOUAC BIG WEEK-END PROGRAMME Together with the other groups in South Canterbury, members or the Temuka group of Support Company, First Battalion, Canterbury Regiment, will go into partial bivouac at Timaru and whole day parade at Cave during the coming week-end, according to Mr James King, recruiting officer at Temuka yesterday. Mr King said that the 34 members of the Temuka group would assemble at the Temuka Drill Hall on Saturday to join the transport for the Tlmaru Drill Hall where the bivouac will be made. After tea full leave will be given all ranks until midnight. The personnel of Timaru platoons and the company headquarters will parade at 9 o’clock on Sunday morning, and the full company, about 160 strong, under the command of Major G. R. Lee, 0.C., will move to Cave via the Pareora Gorge, where exercises in long range machine gun, rifle and mortar shooting will be carried out. Part 3 of the annual course of training will be fired by every member of the company in the form of two battle practices, which have been prepared with meticulous care. This work should be exceptionally interesting, said Mr King who added that further interest attached to the bivouac and parade will be the inspection of the company by the Commanding Officer, Lieut.-Colonel Kippenberger, of Christchurch on the Sunday. MODEL MAORI PA WORK WELL ADVANCED Although the date of the completion of the model pa at Arowhenua cannot yet be fixed, four of the whares are almost finished and the uprights for the largest house have been put in position. Made of manuka stakes, the whole of the picket fence along both the Main Highway and Huirapa Road is finished, and workmen are now engaged in thatching, attending to the recently planted native shrubs, and to the procuring of further materials for the job. The work is sufficiently advanced to indicate that the space for the customary courtyard (marae) of Maori communities has been provided for immediately inside the entrance of the memorial archway, between the four whares, and in front of the largest house which, it is proposed, will be the replica either of a wharewananga or of a whare runanga. Except for the ponga (tree ferns) which are used

for veneer decorative purposes, all the material for the work has been procured in and around Temuka, the manuka coming from Kakahu and the raupo and wiwi from Milford.

OBITUARY MRS T. EDWARDS By the recent death of Mrs T. Edwards, Temuk, has lost a woman who was well-known in South Canterbury for her social work, both privately and in connection with charitable organisations. The daughter of Mr and Mrs ( William Robertson, Mrs Edwards was born at Peel Forest. She was educated at the Rangitata Island School, and later worked in Temuka, Dunedin, and Wellington. She married Mr Edwards in 1905. It was for her excellent work over a number of years as the representative of Temuka on the South Canterbury Hospital Board that Temuka people remember her most, and up to the time of her death she was actively connected with the Temuka branch of the W.T.C.U. During the depression years when she was a member of the Temuka Relief Society, her assistance and services were constantly requisitioned. She was also leader of the Temuka Presbyterian Junior Young Women’s Bible Class for several years. Mrs Edwards Is survived by her husband and two sons Messrs Bruce Edwards (Temuka) and Mr Ross Edwards (Lower Hutt). SUCCESSFUL CONCERT BRIGHT OPERETTAS Many persons attended the concert given by the Temuka Methodist Young People in the Temuka Parish Hall, when operettas, choruses, and scenas met with enthusiastic approval. The programme opened with a pianoforte duet by Miss C. and Mr G. Benbow, this number being followed by three choruses by the children and action song, “In a Litle Gipsy Tea Room,” in which Mrs Bell took the part of the gipsy teacup reader. Other items were given by Mrs G. Simpson, Mrs G. Smart, Miss E. Hewson, Mr A. Dale and Mr A. Matheson. An operetta, “Cowboys and Indians" was offered, Mr A. Dale taking the part of the Indian chief and the children looking fierce with their guns and axes. After the Interval the operetta, “The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe,” was presented, the characters in this being: “The old woman,” Mrs B. Andrew; “Alladin,” Miss Coral Norton; “Marjory Daw,” Miss B. Andrews; “Little Miss Muffett,” Mrs G. Simpson; “Sinbad,” Miss M. White, “Dorothy Draggletail,” Miss E. Bryan; “Blue Beard,” Mr A. Dale; “Goody two shoes," Miss N. Magee; “Robinson Crusoe,” Master G. Wakefield; "Friday,” Master C. Brown; “Cinderella," Miss D. Levens; “Alibaba,” Mrs W. Hewson; the Two Horrid Sisters, Misses J. Stringer and I. Prattley. The Rev. L. A. Brown, minister of the Temuka Methodist Church, thanked all who had helped to make the concert a success, and added that the proceeds would greatly assist the Trust Fund of the Church. BOWLING TEAMS FOR SATURDAY The following rinks have been ■selected to play in the Bristol Cup match against Kia Toa at Temuka on Saturday at 2.15 p.m.: McGillen, Beck, Price, Edwards (s); Marshall, Cameron, Harvey, Mclnnes (s); Hope, Farrell, Keys, Nichol (s); Shand, Clark, Joynt, Smith, F. (s); Johnston, Maclachlan, Strange, Johansen (s); Harrison, Longson, Shilitto, Scrimshaw (s); Parrant, Munro, Meek, Murphy (s); Gourley, Hancox, McCallum, Davis (s). ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS Considerable improvements to the roadways near Dinder farm at the top end of Rangitira Valley, Upper Waitohi, are now complete. For some weeks past gangs of between 10 to 15 workmen have been installing necessary water channels and laying down lengths of piping. The work was supervised by Mr C. Williams, foreman of the Geraldine County Council. PERSONAL Miss D. M. Lyon of the nursing staff of the Ashburton County Hospital, who has been on annual leave with relatives in Temuka, has returned to duty. After spending two days in the Temuka district, Sister Atawhai Wilcox of the New Zealand Methodist Maori Mission, New Plymouth, left yesterday for Waimate. Sister Wilcox pays regular visits to all Maori communities in the South Island, and during her stay in Temuka visited the Arowhenua Maoris. While at Waimate she will visit the Maori people at Morven. On Tuesday afternoon Sister Wilcox addressed a meeting of the Temuka Methodist Ladies’ Auxiliary and spoke of the mission’s work among the Maori women. The meeting was presided over by Mrs L. A. Brown. Procter’s, the Opticians, Christchurch, will be making their next professional visit to Temuka on Tuesday. November 22, when they may be consulted on - all defects of eyesight at the Temuka Hotel. Appointments can now be made by ringing the U.F.S. Dispensary, ’phone 240 M