DISTRICT EVENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17804, 31 August 1929, Page 4

DISTRICT EVENTS

(Our Resident Reporter.) The Assessment Court sits at the j office of the Otorohanga County Goun--1 eil next Friday for the purpose of hearI irig objections to the newly-revised ! valuation roll for the local county. i Taking an Airing. ! The advent of a Gipsy Moth plane | over Otorohanga at regular intervals during the week has provided the ' principal topic for the settlers of the district. . The machine is piloted by Captain M. C. McGregor, D.F.C. The pilot has been kept extremely busy flying passengers from Kio Klo to Otorohanga and back. Many thrilling stunts were executed by the skilled pilot. Personal. Mr D. W. Selbie, who is leaving his position as foreman of the butter manufacturing plant (at Otorohanga) of the New Zealand Dairy Association, Ltd., was presented by the staff with a gold-mounted Waterman pen and an Kvcrsharp pencil, accompanied by the usual felicitous speeches. At the monthly meeting of the • otorohanga branch of the W.C.T.U., .he president, Mrs Tozer, who is leav,ng the Kio Kio district, was presented with a badge, set with brilliants, by Mrs B. 11. Kedglcy on behalf of those ; present. i Miss Eileen Chittenden, popularly j known at Otorohanga, has been apj pointed assistant mistress at the j itotowhero school. i A farewell afternoon was tendered ! to Mrs S. Lawson, who has left Otoroi hanga to reside at Wellsford. Mrs F. | 0. It. Phillips and Mrs Smith acted as j hostesses, and presented the departI ing guest with useful mementoes of ' her long residence at Otorohanga. i The death took place at Buckland j of Mrs William Roberts, who, until a | short while ago, lived with her husj bund and family at Kio Kio, where they j were prominent dairy farmers. I | Electric Reticulation. I At the last meeting of the Waitomo : Power Board it was decided to advise the Pirongia district settlers that as they were unable to meet the guarantees asked by the board for rctii culating their locality the board could do nothing further in the matter. The chairman, Air V. W. Simms, was of the opinion that the prospective users of light and power interested in the proposed scheme were under the Impression that they could get power from the Te Awamutu Board under lower guarantees than asked for by the Waitomo Power Board. If ttiat was so lie did not blame them for going to Te Awamutu for. service. Building Activity. Building activity continues at Otorohanga, both in residential and in business premises. Presentations. The members and friends of St. Andrew’s Croquet Club held an afternoon at the residence of Mrs A. T.

Cullum, Kakamutu road, in honour of Mrs W. Eveleigh, widow of the late Mr William Eveleigh, Kio Kio, who is to be married to Mr D. W. Selbie next month. After a pleasant afternoon with music, song and competitions, Mrs Eveleigh was the recipient of a very handsome silver rose-bowl. The Otorohanga Golf Club has presented the winner of the ladies’ strok competition, Miss N. Hitchings, Ivit Kio, with a beautiful solid silver cup suitably engraved.