Foxton

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 66, 21 March 1944, Page 3

Foxton

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Mr. and Mrs. Lash, senr., of Alanawatu Heads, are welcoming home their son, L.A,C. Leslie Lash, after nearly two years' service in the islands. Mrs. W. Lead, of Cook Street, is homo from hospital and is slowly re--1 gaining her usual good health. I Sergeant J. T. Tidey, who has just returned from overseas, and his wife and small son Alan, together with Sergeant Y. Turner, w r ho is on leave from the islands, spent a few' days as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Tom East, of Johnston Street. Miss June Austin, of the staff of the Wellington Public Hospital, spent the wqpk-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. Austin, of Mouton. Ptc. Chas. Jonson and his wife spent part of his furlough with his sister Mrs. S. Evans, of Korbiton Koad. Miss E. A. Leach and her brother Charles, of Alfredton, Eketahuna, are (lie guests of the Missus Leach, of Manawatu Heads. Mr. If. Satherley, of No. 1 Line, is an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital and his condition is satisfactory. i Mrs. B. Austin, of Wellington, has been spending a few w r eeks as the guest of her son and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. S. Austin, of Moutoa. Miss I. Sykes, of Wanganui, is the guest of Mrs. C. Hitchings, of Johnston Street. Mrs. D. Satherley and her small daughter Nola, of Cambridge, are tho guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. Satherley, of ► No. 1 Line. Mrs. Bob Coley, of Jenks Street, is i spending a holiday in Wellington. At the Sports on Saturday the Block I 4 residents were permitted to run the ( tearooms, the Tirocecds from which were ; added to the Block 4 effort. The ladies in charge were Mesdames TT. Podmore, j ■ Evans, C. Hitchings, H. Timmins, W. i Knewstub and Muaford. > At the Block 4 weekly card evening J held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. I T. Hughes, of Johnston Street, the; winners of the dag 500 were Mesdamr.s ! A. Heasman, E. Bryant and Mr. T. E. I Hughes. Trcsta, the small daughter of Mr. and j Mrs. A. Merriman, of Kavensworth I Place, had the misfortuno to break her arm when she fell off her tricycle. Miss P. Shailer, of Avenue Road, met with an unusual and painful accident when she slipped on the floor of her room and in falling broke one bone of tho wrist and cracked another. Aircraftman W. .T. Neville is spewing his furlough at his home in Easton Street. Keith, the second son of Sgron. and Mrs. W. Langley, of Union Street, mot with a very painful accident last week in the works where he is employed in Wellington. A piece of steel woighinr about Bcwt. fell, narrowly missing his head but hitting his knee, taking a piece right out of the knee and breaking the leg just below the joint. Keith was to have entered the Navy in a few weeks* time. Itangi, the little grand-daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Len Mc.Carthey, of Union Street, who was injured in a motor accident at Paraparaumu, just previous to he r arrival in Foxton, has had the stitches removed from the severe lacerations which had been made to &er face

and the scars which thought might be disfiguring, are scarcely visible. The Beach Improvement Committee's card evening was well attended. The prize-winners were: Ladies, Mrs. Downing 1, Mrs. O. Wilson 2; men, Mr. Sands 3, Mr. IST. Wilson 2.