WANGANUI RESIDENT’S 80TH BIRTHDAY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 93, 23 April 1946, Page 4

WANGANUI RESIDENT’S 80TH BIRTHDAY

MR. J. CALVER CONGRATULATED. Congratulations from friends and relatives in many parts of New Zea- ■ land were received by Mr. John Cal- : ver, 5 Argyle Street, Wanganui, when • he celebrated his 80th. birthday at the • week-end. . M. Calver was born in Ipswich, ■ Sussex, England, on April 20, 1866, and , was educated in England. At the age -1 of 25, he married Miss Mary Jane ’iGardiner, and came to New Zealand Jon his honeymoon. He settled in IWanganui, where he has lived ever " since, and was in business locally for • 40 years, retiring in 1924. In 1922 he : was elected to the Wanganui Borough t Council serving for two terms. ■ Mr. Calver has a family of one son • and seven daughters and there are 23 • | grand-children. One son and a (daughter are still resident in Wan- ■ ganui, Mrs. R. Smart, Keith Street I and Mr. J. G. Calver, Wanganui East. > them? except to think that in other ■ places, other times, their modernised ’ brethren would have been strafing the • strolling crowds around Virginia Lake, 'ithe beach, or gathered., around th. 1 river for a picnic. 3 To many, in church and home and ■ on sports or picnic ground, it was both • a Holy Day and a holiday—WangaI nul’s first post-war Easter. Sons, bre--5 thers, husbands, wives and sisters > were reunited again. > Yesterday, Easter Monday, was dull ' and overcast, but there was no rain ' of any consequence with which to mar f the final day of the holidays. Un- ’■ completed games held over from Saturday were completed, the visitors de1 parted, the local inhabitants who had ■ I been "abroad" began to return, the ‘) punters made up their profit and loss I 'account, and everybody, as the 1 .“Chronicle” went to press, was them--I'selves again.