Personal

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 29, 4 February 1937, Page 2

Personal

Mr. H. Sproule, Napier, is visiting Hamilton. Messrs. W. H. Walker and G. Lange, of Hastings, left on Tuesday for Wairoa to adjudicate at the Wairoa Show. Rev. J. J. Anderson, vicar of St. Michael’s and All Angels, Pukotapu, and Mrs. Anderson have returned homo from a holiday visit to the South Island. Mr. W. E. Yates, Waipawa, left yesterday morning on a visit to Wellington. Mr. T. Angell, Waipawa, has returned from a visit to Gisborne. Mrs. Walter Miller and small daughter, of Southland, who have been on an extended visit to Mrs. Miller’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Jones, Kennedy road, Napier, returned home on Tuesday. Mrs. J. Flatten, of Poraite, sails by the Port Nicholson from Wellington on February 27 to join her husband in London. Mr. Platten, who spent some years in Napier as a journalist, is now meeting with success with hia literary work being published in England. Mrs. E. A. W. Healey, who has been staying with various friends in Hawke’s Bay since Christmas, has returned to Napier and will remain there till she leaves for Wellington to join the Rotorua on March 6. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Bennett, Weber, have returned from a visit to Napier. Mr. and Mrs. Rood are Waipawa visitors to Whakatane. Mr. and Mrs. Stretton, Norsewood, have returned from a holiday visit to ■ Napier. Mrs. G. Hannah, Napier, accompanied by her children, is visiting her i parents, Mr. and Mrs. R* Caulton, MataI Mrs. R. K. Donald and her three small children leave Waipukurau today for England by the Tainui on an extended visit to relatives. 1 Mrs. Howard M. Glazebrook, Marae- | kakaho, has returned from a visit to I New Plymouth. Mr and Mrs James Walker, of Maraekakaho, who celebrated their golden 1 wedding yesterday, were tho second parties to bo married in St. Matthew's Church, Hastings, the first being about two weeks earlier. They have now com- | pleted a wonderful record, having lived ' in the district ever since, and rearing their family of four sons and two daughters—two sons paying the supremo sacrifice in the Great War. Mrs Walker’s life is unique iu that she was the first girl in the Maraekakaho district, being there in the time of bir Donald McLean, and the only one in tho district who remembers him. Her many reminiscences of those early times at the station are both interesting and educative, and she is able to trace its progress from the swamp and ti-trec state to its present productive capacity. When the station was cut up in 1929 at tho death of bir Douglas McLean, Mr Walker had boeu 52 years working on the statiou, and in the capacity of studsheep master he had attended the H.B. A. and P. shows for 43 consecutive years—a great record.