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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 36, 12 February 1937, Page 2

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Messrs J. H. Edmundson and R. M. Chadwick and Dr. W. D. Fitzgerald will attend the half-yearly conference ox the North Island Motor Union at Wellington on February 23 as delegate* of the Automobile Association, Hawke’s Bay. Mr. IS. I. Sutherland, Napier, is visiting Hamilton. Mr. J. L. Vergette, Napier, is visiting Hamilton. Mr. J. Bibby and Mr. W. J. Yardley. of Ongaonga, have left on a ten-day fishing trip in the Tbngariro district. Miss Martin has been appointed senior assistant and Mr. McWha probationary assistant at the Otane School. Mr. B. W. Johanson, Waipukurau, has been successful in securing his LL.B. degree, having passed the final subjects at the recent University examinations. The engagement is announced of Edna Anne, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Fraser, Kipling avenue, Napier, to William Armstrong, third son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Wilson, Pahiatua. Mrs. E. C. Bradley and family, Ongaonga, have returned from a short holiday at the beach. Advice that she has passed the examination for the Fellowship of the Trinity College of Music, London, in pianoforte playing, has been received by Miss Erin Power, of Auckland. The fellowship is the highest diploma awarded by the college. Miss Power, who was trained at St. Joseph’s Convent, Grey Lynn, is a niece of Mrs. F. S. Budd, of Hastings, and was in Hastings recently. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. O’Meara, Fitzroy avenue, Hastings, have returned from the Milford Sound summer cruise. Miss L. M. Croft, Napier, president of the local branch of the New Zealand Registered Nurses’ Association, is visiting Wellington to attend an execu-< tive meeting. Miss Marie Williams, Wanganui, who is to be a bridesmaid at the Pidgeon— Hill wedding, arrives to-day in Napier and will be the guest of Miss Dorothea Norman, Roslyn road. Miss Mildred Newcombe, J.P., Wanganui, and Mrs. E. W. Mexeweather, also of Wanganui, are guests of Mrs. Leslie Hill, Fitzroy road, Napier, and will attend the wedding on Monday of MiBS Valerie Hill. Mrs. R. S. Wilkins, of Wellington, is spending a week’s holiday in Napier. Miss Elsie Gray, Waipawa, is spending a holiday in Gisborne. Mrs. W. Sharp, Hastings, was the guest of Mrs. Grayson, Mat&whero, for the Murton—Sharp wedding. Mrs. W. G. Stead, accompanied by Mrs. W. R. Stead, hr. Aubyn street, Hastings, motored to Auckland to meet her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Btead, who arrive from England by the Rangitiki., Mrs. John F. Kelly, *‘Cban,” Hast* ings, accompanied by her cousin, Mrs. B. Cole, Glasgow, Scotland, is the guest of- her sister, Mrs. H. D. Crisp, Harris street, Gisborne. Miss Betty Sharp, who has been ♦be guest of her aunts, Mrs. T. Sharp and Mrs. D. McKeague, Gisborne, for the Murton—Sharp wedding, at which she was a bridesmaid, intends returning to Hastings this week. Mr. P. Murphy, of Waipukurau, made fiying history on Wednesday morning when he flew solo for the first time. Ho is the first pilot of the Central Hawke’s Bay Aero Club to accomplish this feat. Mr. and Mrs. R, H. Scherf and Mr. and Mrs. P. Bridgeman won prizes in a flag 500 tournament in Waipukurau on Wednesday night.