FOXTON NEWS
[From Our Own Correspondent.] At the Bowling Club house party at Mr and Mrs J. M. Thomson’s home the other evening, Mr D. Christie conveyed to Mr Spring, on behalf of those present, “many happy returns” of his 90th ‘-m'thday, which fell on Monday. Mr Spring, despite the burden of years, leads an active life and works in his garden an average of six hours a day, and is in his element, on the bowling green. , Contractors for the tar-sealing of the roads and footpaths in tho borough are niaking good progress with the work. Various roads have been scarified and rolled with tho steam-roller, while workmen are busy preparing the footpaths for tar-sealmg. The health of Mrs H. Chalk, has been an inmate of tho Palmerston North Hospital for some weeks past, is causing her relatives great anxiety. The Masonic Hall, which has been undergoing alteration at the hands of the carpenters during' tho past few weeks, is now nearing completion and is receiving a coat of paint. Two cloak-rooms have been added to the front of the building, tho old stage and cloak-rooms removed and the Bpace used for additional floor space, and a supper room has been added to tile back. A covered-in stairway has been erected on the south side of the building leading to the upstairs portion of the structure.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 9, 8 December 1926, Page 11
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227FOXTON NEWS Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 9, 8 December 1926, Page 11
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