Personal.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 6, 6 March 1914, Page 2

Personal.

Mrs Mains’’, is at present on a ! visit to Mrs Kay, Raynor's road, j Mr R. Mi:Ewan, who is still the j guest of Mr and Mrs Holden; is ! making little pr igress. Mrs Anderson, of Paradale, t Napier, has been on a visit to I Mrs Herd, of “ The Hyland*.” Mr B. Gibbons, of the Public j Works Department, has been i transferred to the Auckland I Office. Messrs F. W. Garland and J. j Carmody, of the district school, j j were among those who success-i | fully passed the examination for | j the teachers’ C certificate. | Mr Wm. Gribble, Huntly' | South, left on Tuesday for the j Waikato Hospital where lie will ! be operated upon for an internal | complaint. To-morrow evening Mr Sal- | mon severs his connection with j Messrs Green and G iebr >k, he ; having received an appointment I in Morrinsville. | Messrs J. P. Bailey and L. B. I Harris represented the Town and j Road Boards af the funeral of. ! the late Mr Mark Harrison I which took place last Saturday, j Miss Macdiarmid, M.A., left Iby Tuesday night’s express for Wellington where she will take | over the charge of the junior de- ! partnient connected with the j Girls’ High School. 1, w | pita! last Monday in order to be ! treated for an internal disorder i of J very serious nature. I At their meeting on Wednes- ! day night the Sports Committee | decided that the only entrance I to the Recreation Ground on j Sports Day should be by the main gate. ■ | Mr E. Caldorvvood, Health Ofj ficer, from Taumarunui, was in | Huntly yesterday in order to- | attend the funeral of Mr Alex : Reid. 11 - was ac ; Mrs Cal derwood. Mr F. Knappar’s little hoy, j aged eight, was taken to Fie . \ Waikato Hospital at the 1> :• ( ji n- ’ ning of tiie week in order to be 1 operated upon f a* apnea licis. I Mrs FI. Pec kb am', Huntly W est, undergo* | tion at an early date. On hearing of he death of her mother, Mrs Re.-:. wh.o, with the j exception of Mr Robert Mair, ( was tlii* oldest resident of Whan- ! garei, Mrs 11. H. Sissons proj ceecled to Whangarei on Monday. \ ! Mrs Rust, who at the ago of lier ; | death had passed her eighty-fifth • year, arrived in Auckland by the j ship Joseph Flet -h r in 1854. and i she was married to Mr John • ! Stewart Rust in St. Andrew’s ' j Church Auckland, in the same year J ' In the early days of Whangarei, j whe Maori troub! 's were aent?, ‘ I Mrs Rust had many remarkable experiences. She had often to ■ i securely lock her doors and hide ' ! her children in fear of visits fr n 1 marauding natives. Mrs Rust ‘ l is survived by her only sin, five j daughters, and many gran ichil- ; dren and great-grandchildren.