PERSONAL

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 28, 3 February 1937, Page 15 (Supplement)

PERSONAL

Mrs. F. G. Major and family, Argyle avenue, have returned from a holiday spent at Worser Bay. Mrs. K. Dean and children have returned to Palmerston North after a holiday spent at Otaki beach. Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Ellison, Napier, are the guests of Mrs. Ellison’s mother, Mrs. H. M. Garner, “Wimmera,” North street. Mrs. K. M. Garner and her daughter have returned to Palmerston North after spending a month at Waimarama beach. Miss Mary Martin, A.R.C.M., has returned to Palmerston North after fulfilling an engagement at IYA Auckland. After spending a month’s holiday in New Plymouth, Mrs. D. S. Wylie and family have returned to Palmerston North. Mrs M. M. Thevenard, of Wallington, Surrey, who is at present visiting, her sou, Mr C. M. H. Thevenard, Sandon road, Feilding, leaves on Thursday to join the Maunganui at Wellington on a pleasure cruise to Milford Sound. Mrs. E. J. P. Simpson (Woodville), Miss Ida Mandeville (Ireland) and Miss Dorothy Turner (Palmerston North), Who have been sketching and fishing at Taupo returned to Palmerston North yesterday. Miss Kathleen Scotter, daughter of Rev, A. N. Scotter, Palmerston North, who. was , recently appointed general secretary of the Y.M.C.A, at New Plymouth, left Palmerston North on Monday to take up her duties. Miss Scotter succeeds Miss M. Greenwell, who will act in the special capacity of financial secretary to the association before leaving New Plymouth. Miss Scotter recently returned from a six months’ tour of Australia. “It was lovely 1 If I had the chance I would go up every day,” said Mrs W. Knapp, aged 75, of Napier, on her return from, her first trip in an aeroplane during the week-end. Mrs Knapp stated that a flight had been her ambition for some time past, and her dreams came true when Miss Joyce Prime offered, to take her up. w Of! course, I jumped at the offer,” said Mrs Knapp, “and I eh joyed'every moment 6T it. Whether or not it was due to the piloting of Miss Prime, I cannot say, but I did not feel the slightest bit afraid. Just give me another chance, and I’ll be there,” Mrs Knapp concluded. Miss Aloha Baker, the much-travel-led young American who haa recently completed a tour of New Zealand and left for India, has summed up her impressions of New Zealand. “As a country New Zealand is a very pleasant place in which to live—everything is accessible. I like New Zealanders — they paint their houses,” she said before she left. “There is nothing to my mind, anywhere, anything, like the Glow Worm Grotto at Waitomo,” was another comment. “It gave me the impression that if there had been a sequel to * Dante’s Inferno’ it would be like that.”—Exchange.

With the death at the home of her daughter, Mrs J. Rickard, Rototuna, (Waikato), of Mrs Isabella Gray Tuck, aged 89, an Otago pioneer, is revealed the fact that the aggregate age of her children is 821 years—believed to be a New Zealand record. Thirteen children survive Mrs Tuck, and there are G 9 grandchildren and 85 great-grand-, children. In all, 167 of her direct descendants are living in New Zealand. Mrs Tuck was 87 years of age when she had her first air flight in the monoplane Faith in Australia. She thoroughly enjoyed it. She was born in Hamilton, Scotland, and came to New Zealand in the ship Victory in 1863 with her parents, the late Mr and Mrs Robert Martin. In 1865 she married the late Mr John Tuck, of Romahapa, Otago. As a young woman Mrs Tuck used to assist her husband in pit sawing and team driving. She had lived in the Hamilton district for 21‘years.