SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3556, 11 December 1934, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Messrs E. Campbell and L. H. Smart have been elected unopposed as members of the Kawa Drainage Board.

Mr Justice Frazer, president of the Court, of Arbitration, has been appointed to act as chairman of the Transport Co-ordination Board during the absence from meetings of the chairman, Sir Stephen Allen. •

The many friends of Mr J. Budge, of Kio Kio, will regret to hear of his sudden illness. He was removed to a private hospital in Hamilton for an operation, and is now progressing satisfactorily.

Among successes recently attained by former pupils of Te Awamutu District High School may be mentioned the Misses Bernice Burns, of Te Awamutu, and Pat. Ashmore, of Nga!roma, who gained second and third place respectively in the recent senior Government shorthand-typist examinations at Hamilton. Both were pupils of Brain's College, Hamilton.

Mr J. T. Young, of Frontier Road, a director of the N.Z. Co-op. Dairy Co., Ltd., is to leave for Wellington to-morrow evening as a representative from the No. 2 ward at the big dairying conference to consider the recommendations of the Minister in connection with the Agriculture (Emergency Powers) Act. An official announcement to the effect that Mr E. L. Cullen, president of the Hastings branch of the Labour Party, was to contest the Hawke's Bay seat at the next general election as Labour candidate, was made by the Leader of the Opposition, Mr M; J. Savage, during the course of an address in Hastings. Mr Cullen has previously contested the seat in the Labour Party's interests.

Their many friends will be pleased to learn that both Mr J. W. Civil, WaipJa, County eng-ineer, and Mr Alex Hanna, of Te Mawhai, are making steady progress towards recovery, aftem many weeks of enforced idleness. Mr Civil has not yet been able to activfeily resume his duties, but hla-s carried out a good deal of work from his own home, and Mr Hanna, whose condition was precarious for some time, was well enough on Sunday to be allowed to leave his bed for an hour or two.

Two former pupils of Te Awamutu District High School, and now students at Auckland University, have been successful in the latest examinations. George C. J. Dalton (second son of Mr G. Dalton, Teasdale Street) and August H. Maunder (son of Mr and Mrs A. Maunder, of Kihikihi) both, passed the first stage of the B.Se. degree, physics, and also the first stage of chemistry for the same degree. Dalton also gained a pass in elements of Calculus B.E^

At Monday's sitting of the Magistrate's Court, his Worship (Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M.), remarked at the conclusion of business that as that was the last local sitting before the holiday season he would like to extend to members of the Bar and the officers of the Court his hearty good wishes for a happy Christmas and pleasant New Year —a wish that was sincerely reciprocated, Mr C. G. Downes voicing the goodwill from the Bar.

It is announced that Mr Charles O. Edmonds, of Opunake, has entered into partnership with Mr S. ,S. Preston, in the well-known Te Awamutu legal firm, of McCarter and Preston, and we gather that Mr Edmonds will remove from Taranaki to Te Awamutu/ early in the new year. The newcomer is not entirely a stranger to Te Awamutu, for he already has several friends here, through his association with Auckland and Hamiilton legal firms before he established himself at Opunake about fourteen year's ago. Taranaki papers to hand show that Mr Edmonds has played a very worthy part in Opunake, where, in addition to his legal business affairs, he actively associated himself with the commercial, sporting, and social life of the community to a degree that made him one of the most prominent public men in that part of Taranaki. He is a past secretary and president, and a'present life member, of the Seaside Society, a steward of the Opiinake Racing Club, meariber of the Power Board, prominent in golf, tennis, and bowling circles, a cheerful and able worker for all worthy objects, a keen gardener, a good churchman—in fact, the type of man that Opunake can ill afford to lose and that Te Awamutu should be glad to welcome. Mr Edmonds is a married man with a family of three, and Mrs Edmonds is referred to as a very popular lady and a veiy able seconder to her husband's public activities.