Pahiatua

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7277, 3 October 1933, Page 5

Pahiatua

i'i'oin Our Own Correspondent.

./ J me otinß- of the general committee of the 1-nhiatua Bowling Club two new members, Messrs South and Chinnery. were elected. Mr. 13. Baxter was appointed caretaker of the green as beoie. During the same afternoon a work,b,ee ot , members cut and rolled the V? “ m , generally prepared the sur.ml mgs m readiness for the opening i the season.

.he engagement is announced of Isa* M cadie, eldest daughter of Mrs. S. E. .tlmundson, Plimmerton, and Bert Clif,'rd, youngest son of Mr. J. and the late Its. Wilson, of Colyton.

>rr Bert Wilson, coach and selector of the Athletic third grade football team, which were the winners of the Bush 1-ugliy Union’s 1923 championship and seven-aside tournament, was the guest of honour at a dance held on Wednesday evening, and the recipient of a silver cigarette case, sijjtably engraved. Mr. Kon Smith, in making the presentation, said that they regarded the winning of the honours by the team mainly due to their coach. In expressing thanks to the boys” for the dance and the handsome keepsake, Mr. Wilson said that it was the spirit of co-operation and determination to do their best that had placed the team in the proud position in which it now was.

As a wind-up to their gatherings for tlie season the local Gymnastic Club held an interesting debate with a team from Palmerston North, the subject being "Should State lotteries be adopted in New Zealand?” The visiting speakers were Messrs Shearer, Cowie and Muirhead, who took the affirmative, and the local speakers, Messrs G. L. Stafford, M. Priest and N. Richardson., who spoke in the negative. The judges were Rev. K. L. Warren and Mr. J. Marsh, who decided that the local speakers were, by a slight margin only, the winners. Mr. W. Redman, of Pahiatua, was accorded a send-off by a largo number of friends and fellow business men at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W, T. Brown, Tararua street, and was the recipient of a fai'ewell gift as a token of esteem and goodwill. An enjoyable evening comprised music, games and dancing.

A former resident of this district, Miss Jean Winifred Douglas, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Len Douglas, now of Karamea, was recently married to Mr. William Halkett, of Glasgow, Scotland, at tlie Trinity Presbyterian Church, Nelson. At the examination held recently by tire Southern Cross Commercial College, Sydney, the following local students were successful in passing:—Freda Buckingham, 97 per cent, and honours; Ruth Wagner, 95 per cent, and honours; Molly Lister, 93 per cent.; Thelma Blay, 84 per cent., all being pupils of Mrs. E. Aston Main street.

Mr. R. A. Wilson, Makuri, presided over a gathering of farmers who met for the purpose of hearing an address of tiie marketing of wool, given by Mr. H. J. Wernham, managing director of the N.Z. Co-op. Wool Marketing Association. At tlie conclusion of a most instructive and interesting talk on this important question, .Messrs R. A. Wilson and J. P. Tylee were elected a local committee, with power to add, for keeping in touch With these matters.

The scholars of the local High School were intensely interested in a rather uncommon fish which had been released and dropped by a shag when disturbed by Mr. S. Matthews, who sent it to the High School for the pupils to see. It was a lamprey, like a thin eel, two feet long, and evidently quite boneless, with a large sucking mouth containing large cruellooking teeth. It is an edible fish and in some countries much used as bait for fishing. There was a large attendance at the annual meeting of the Pahiatua Anglers’ Club, presided over by Mr. J. Hutton, on Wednesday evening last. The report and balance sheet were adopted, the latter showing a credit balance of over £5. Dissatisfaction was expressed at the allocation of fry and a motion put by Mr. A. Pratt and seconded by Mr. F. Barraclough to the effect that the inadequacy be reported to the Wellington Acclimatisation Society and better treatment be requested, was carried unanimously. It was announced that there are between 200 and 800 miles of water to be stocked in the Pahiatua district as compared with far less in other districts receiving almost the same number of ova. Mr. J. Robertson was re-elected patron and Mr. J. Hutton re-elected president, with a •committee comprising all active financial members. Mr. A. Morgan was elected as selector for the Stockwell cup competition. It was decided that the Brassell cup shall be for the angler landing the heaviest fish during the season. Mr. E Eddie proposed and Mr. F. Barraclough seconded that for competitions the minimum size of the fish shall be 12 inches, tlie motion being carried'. The first series of competitions are to be carried out on the third Sunday in October. So far 22 men's licenses and two ladies’ licenses have been issued at the Post Office.

Mrs. J. D. C. Crewe, "Hillside,” Wakeman street, who has been a visitor to Auckland for some little time, returned on Friday evening. Her daughter, Mrs. Corbett, of Napier, is at present on a visit to her parents. Mrs. Hyland, who recently broke her hip at Kumeroa and is now at the residence ol' her daughter, Mrs. Ruskeli, Hall’s road, is progressing- satisfactorily. The many friends of Mrs. S. P. Girdwood, whose mother, Mrs. Horrax, recently passed away, will regret to hear that she is an inmate of the Waikato Hospital, Hamilton. The late Mrs. A. R. Johnslti, - who recently died at Haicombe at the age of S 3, is survived by a number of sons and daughters, amongst the former being Mr. C. Johnski, of Masterton road, Pahiatua. The large number of residents who attended the funeral of the late Mr. Harry Pearcey was an indication of the respect and esteem in which the deceased pioneer resident was held. The service at his late residence and at the graveside was conducted by the Rev. W, B. Pickering and the Foresters’ ritual was read by P.C.R. Bro. L, Parker. The cortege was preceded by members of the Municipal Fire Brigade and members of Court Pahiatua of the Foresters. The pall bearers were members of the latter Order, and there was a very large number of floral tributes from various public bodies, clubs and friends.

At the meeting of the committee of the District High School It was announced that the recent entertainment given* by a party from the Rongotai Boys’ College, Wellington, had resulted in the sum of £4 10s Id being handed over to the committee for the local school fund. A welcome was extended to Mr. Stevens, th'e now member, who took his seat on the committee for the first time. The Bush Basketball Association decided, at a meeting presided over by Mrs. L. T. Russell, president, to hold an association ball on Wednesday, October 11, and to ask Mr. G. Harold Smith to present the trophies for the year on that occasion. A very delightful concert was staged by the Pahiatua Musical Club on Thursday evening last to mark tho close of its season for 1933. Mr. W. H. Stainton Is the conductor for the club and the items were announced by the secretary, Mr. G. L. Stafford. The full club rendered the choral fantasia "The Bohemian Girl, the soloists being Mrs. Ivan Boyens and Miss'-Delete Harrison; part song, Hail, Smiling Morn’’ and a bracket of part songs which had been specially arranged in four-part harmony by Mr. Stainton. "Fat LIT Feiler” and "Requim. Other items by the club were the part songs "Londonderry Air” and "Moonlight. Miss Rae Bond, a visiting soloist from Wanganui, delighted the audience with her singing, and was recalled a number of times. Her cousin, Mrs. Ivan Boyens, Pahiatua’s accomplished singer, was also recalled, and gave the old favourite. "Golden Dancing Days.” The violin solos of Mrs. Owen Clai-k were greatly appreciated and she had to respond to encores, as also did Miss Chatwin and Miss D. Harrison for their duet “Night of btars. The pianoforte duet of Miss Avis Arrow and Mr. Melville Pringle with which the second part of the programme opened was loudly applauded. Mrs. Wylie created much amusement with her recitations and a very fine concert closed with the singing of the rousing “Viking Song by the full club. After supper had been dispensed by the ladies' committee the gathering took the form of a happy party, the accompanists for the dancing being Messrs Stainton and Melville Pringle. During tbe concert the lady soloists were handed pretty posies, and before ,the gathering broke up finally the popular conductor, Mr. Stainton, was accorded musical honours.