Personal

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 68, 22 March 1939, Page 6

Personal

Mr. W. Lindup, of Stratford, was a visitor to Wanganui yesterday. Mr. J. p. Flood, of Palmerston North, was a visitor to Wanganui yesterday. Mr. G. Darbyshire, clerk of the Wanganui County Council, is a patient in the Wanganui Public Hospital. Mr. Peter V. Ross, of San Francisco, is a visitor to Wanganui and is a guest at Foster’s Hotel. Mr. J. Siddells, who has been in a Wellington hospital, has returned to Wanganui. He is making good progress toward recovery. Mr. Frank H. Jones was re-elected honorary secretary of the Makirikiri branch of the Farmers’ Union last night. Mr. J. J. Lissette was re-elected chairman of the Makirikiri branch of the Farmers’ Union, at the annual meeting last night. Mr. H. H. Richardson, of Marton, president of the Wanganui branch of the New Zealand Justices of the Peace Association, who attended the annual conference of the New Zealand Association, at Timaru, has returned home. The Very Rev. Father Herbert Doyle, 0.F.M., who has been apostolic visitor to the Franciscan order in Australia and New Zealand, and his secretary, Rev. Father Roger Moloney, 0.F.M., sailed yesterday from Auckland to their headquarters in Glasgow. Mr. John Farrell, of J. C. Williamson Theatres’ touring staff, has returned from the south to Auckland, where he will make arrangements for the appearance of the American company which will present Clare Boothe’s play “The Women.” A little later on Mr. and Mrs. Farrell will leave for Sydney, on holiday. Mr. Patrick Harvey Burr, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Burr, Hokianga, has died in Hastings. Born in Wanganui, Mr. Burr spent his early days in the Hokianga district. After studying law following a move to Palmerston North, Mr. Burr took up school-teaching, and for a number of years was headmaster of Te Hauki | Native Mission School, for which position he resigned to join the staff of Nelsons (N.Z.) Ltd. The shock of the 1931 earthquake undermined his health, however, and a few months after he retired. Since then his condition had not improved, and lately became much more serious. Mr. R. J. Larkin, who has been with the legal firm of Rothwell and Reid, Lower Hutt, for two years, leaves this week to begin practice in Matamata. The Lower Hutt lawyers farewelled him at a gathering at which Mr. L. P. Barrett, on their behalf, presented Mr. Larkin with a desk set. Mr. Larkin was president of the New Zealand University Students’ Association in 1935 and won the Plunket medal for oratory that year. He has been prominently associated with the Wellington Repertory Society and the Thespians, having taken important character parts in various plays, one of which is now being presented. In his student days he was a keen Rugby player. Primary Schools’ Sports. The annual sports promoted by the Wanganui primary schools is to bo held on Cook’s Gardens on Friday. If the sports are to be postponed they will be held a week later. Mutton Birders Prepare. The mutton bird season will be opened on April 1. but already pre parations are being made by the Maori families at Bluff, Riverton and Coolac Bay to travel to the islands in Foveaux Strait, arid flax kits and other equipment are being prepared. Several families are now ready to sail. It is understood (says the Southland Times) that fewer families will visit the islands this year than previously. Better economic conditions are suggested as one reason for this. Swimmers at Bulls. Swimming enthusiasts at. Bulls have not permitted the lack of baths facilities to dampen their keen desire to help and encourage the children. Portion of a large pool in the Rangitikei River, through which the current is not as swift as in other channels, was recently roped off and children were i encouraged to qualify for distance! certificates in this pool. This evening certificates will be presented by Mrs. D. Bonner, a vice-president of the Wanganui Swimming Centre, to indicate that the parent body’s interest in the progress of swimming at Bulls has been maintained. Young Farmeis* Debates. Suggestions for an inter-district, debating competiticn, in which Manawatu would meet Wanganui in the first round draw, were adopted at a meeting of the Manawatu Young Farmers’ Club district committee in Palmerston North. The final will be held in Palmerston North, after which the winning team will represent the Wellington council in the North Island championship to be held in Ruakura. A sub-committee consisting of Messrs. G. I. Robinson, E. W. Barnett, D. Rowland, A. W. Hudson, H. de O. Chamberlain, and F. E. Sherwood was set up to consider the possibility of conducting the competition. A Coincidence. It is not often that, an unusual name of a character in a play being staged by an amateur society is the same as that of the stage manager. Such is the case, however, in the production by the Repertory Society of “Grumpy.” The central character in the play is Mr. Bullivant (“Grumpy”) and the plot revolves round his daughter, Virginia Builivant. The stage manager happens to be Mr. V. Bullivant, of Wanganui. Some of those in the audience unaware of the true facts, wondered whether a misprint had occurred on the programme, or whether a character from the story was stage-managing?