SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3480, 16 June 1934, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mr F. McManemin, the well-known handicapper, came from Auckland this morning to attend the Waipa Racing Club’s special race meeting.

Mr S. G. Willcock, a well-known Tauranga business man, motored .to Te Awamutu this morning to assist at the local race meeting.

Mr A. H. Parish, of Hairini, who has been spending- a holiday in the Wellington province, is at present on the invalid list, while staying with friends at Paraparaumu, but latest advices indicate that he is making a satisfactory recovery.

Mr W. J. Broadfoot, M.P., is visiting Te Awamutu to-day to attend the Waipa Racing Club’s special race meeting, and in the evening he will preside at the local Orphans’ Club, where contingents of brethren from Morrinsville and Hamilton are to assist with the programme.

At a meeting of the Waikato Hospital Board on Thursday the resignations of Nurses E. H. Higgins, S. C, Gordon, E. S. Montefiore. E. S. Worsfold, U. E. Topp, and J. Robertson, from Waikato Hospital, and Nurse M. Bruce, of Rotorua Hospital, were accepted, and it was decided to thank them for their services. In most cases the retiring nurses’ length of service has been completed. Four months’ leave of absence to enable her to take Plunket training at Dunedin was given Sister C. Bloxsome, of Te Kuiti Hospital.

During the school bazaar at Kihikihi on Thursday, opportunity was taken by pupils and parents- to bid farewell to their popular teacher, Miss M. A. Bourne, who has accepted a pdsition at Campbell’s Bay Takapuna. In presenting Miss Bourne with a tangible expression of goodwill from the district, Mr Murphy, headmaster, in a few well chosen weeds, referred to the success the departing teacher had enjoyed during her 41 years in Kihikihi, and hoped that her new surroundings would be as congenial a,s the old. Ho then presented to Miss Bourne a readingIrimp and an ornament, asking that she accept them as expressions of e-sod feeling of thanks for duty well done, and of best wishes for her future. Miss Bourne feelingly replied thanking all for their many kindnesses, in words which drew hearty acclamation.