SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3468, 19 May 1934, Page 6

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mr and Mrs J. A. Maxwell, and Mis s Nora Maxwell, of Te Awamutu, who have been spending a very pleasant holiday motoring in New South Wales and Victoria for the past six weeks, are due to arrive home again next week.

Mrs Ken. Gcuk, of Matamata, is spending a few days at her parents’ home, Kihikihi Road, prior to visiting Auckland.

Miss L. Dick, of Pahiatua, was a visitor to Te Awamutu yesterday in the course of a three weeks’ holiday which is being spent with relatives in various parts of the South Auckland district. Miss Dick purposes {returning via Gisborne and Wairoa.

Miss Dorothiy Irwin left this morning for a fortnight’s vacation in Auckland.

Mrs Raymond Jones, of Kihikihi, is at present visiting friends in Taranaki.

Miss Nancee Forbes, of Opotiki, has been visiting relatives at Te Awamutu, and left for Hamilton yesterday, planning to retm-n home on Monday next.

Mr and Mrs O. E. Johnston, who have been spending a holiday with relatives in Te Awamutu and in Auckland, left by car for Wanganui this morning.

The many admirers in this district of Mr and Mrs Albert Russell, who have gained such well-deserved kudos for their conducting of “ community sings ” in Wellington last winter and in Auckland recently, will be pleased to learn that they are corning to Te Awamutu to conduct a “ community sing ” here, under the auspices of the Women’s Division of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, on Friday, Bth June. With Mr and Mrs Russell wiill be Mrs Carrington Snow, the accompanist, who is almost as widely known in the radio world as the firstnamed. The “ sing,” we understand, will be under the patronage of the Mayor and Mayoress of Te Awamutu, and the Municipal Band will assist.

The death occurred at Hamilton on Thursday evening of Mr William James M'urton, a resident of Kihikihi for about a dozen years, at the age of 61 years. Deceased, it appears, had been in failing health for some considerable time, and his condition became such that his medical advisor arranged for his admission to the Waikato Hospital for special treatment. It was while en route to the hospital in an ambulance that he succumbed. Mr Murton was born at Pokeno, and was engaged as a gold miner for many years, mostly in the Thames and Waihi districts, and when his failing health precluded following his occupation he removed to Kihikihi, where he had lived quietly ever since. He leaves a widow, four daughters and three sons, of whom two girls and a boy are juveniles. The funeral takes place this afternoon, from a private mortuary at Hamilton, and the interment will be at the Hamilton East Cemetery.