PERSONAL

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 109, 12 January 1940, Page 4

PERSONAL

I Mrs Laker of Papaliura, is the guest of Mrs J. Mitchell, Waimana. '* Miss Joan McConnell*. Waimana, is spending a holiday in Wtiangarei. i v' Mr Ormond Greed of Wellington is the guest of Mr and Mrs Len mond, Russell Street, Whakatane. Mrs F. Bell, Mrs Hodgson and Miss B. Bell, Waimana, are visiting Wellington and Nelson. Mr and Mrs Broadkent, Auckland, Avere the guests of Mrs L. Ducker during the holidays. Mr and Mrs Norman Ducker and Miss Lois Ducker. Te Kuiti. are the guests of Mrs L. Ducker, Waimana. Miss Edmonds of Auckland is stay - Ing with Miss Burnett, Nukuhou North. Messrs Mel Jones, T. Carter. Jack Torlich and Phil Murtag l, ent Te Awamutu business men, are staying at the Commercial Hotel. Mrs Henrickson and Miss Henrickson of Green Lane, Auckland, were the guests of Mrs D. Grover, Waimana, recently. Mr and Mrs A. K. Bell, Waimana, leave this week by car for a holiday to be spent in Wellington and Auckland. Toward the .end of the month Mr Robert Fraser leaves for Paeroa to give his lecture "A Nicht wi* Burns'* at the Burns Birthday celebration, of the Paeroa Caledonian Socicty. Miss M. Bruce, Gisborne, has returned home from a holiday spent at Waimana, and was the guest of Mrs T. W. Wardlaw, Greenmeadows. The friends cf Miss Jean Young a popular member of Mrs DeLacey's staff will regret to hear of her serious illness in the Whakatane Hospital. The short time Miss Young has been in Whakatane she has endeared herself to many, especially the Maori people as she speaks that language fluently. Her pakeha and Maori friends wish her a speedy reand 'Aroha Nui Hcne." Mr A. G. Hultquist, M.P. who has been training in the N.C.O. class in the Central District School of Instruction is now receiving a specialist course of instruction as a signaller. He is at present designated Signalman A. G. Hultquist, and is in Hut 71 in the Army School at Trentham Camp. In the Army School he enjoys the same conditions described by Horton Stewart •f the Maori Battalion officers class: whose letter to a local friend was published in the Beacon recently.