SOCIAL NEWS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 100, 21 October 1938, Page 3

SOCIAL NEWS

Mrs. Lawrence Sinclair is on ft holiday viait to Auckland. ! Miss Beryl Connelly is spending a holiday in Auckland. * * * -it * * Mr. Eiric Hartsliorno is visiting Gisborne. ■Ji- * :<r * X- * >• Mr- P. J. Hickey, of To Puke, is spending lus annual leave in Opotiki. ****■!!■ * Mrs. C- W. I* nii-wcather, llaukokore, is visiting Gisborne. * * 4i * -K- * * Misses V. and A. Burnett have returned! to Upotiki alter an extensive holiday visit to Suva. * , * -it it isMiss Myrtle Gladding, of Bemuera, Auckland is the guest o! Air. ancl M’rs. J. Baird while spending a holiday in Opotiki. * 4C- 41- 41 4S- a * Miss Joyce Downey arrived in Opotilv,i last night to spend the week-end in Opotiki with her mother, Mrs. M. Downey. 4S- 41- 41- 41- Hr 41- -X Mrs. C. Orchard anil her small son. of Whakutanc. is spending a holiday in Opotiki with her parents, Air. and Mrs. H. J. Webb. 4*- * -X ’ 4!- *■ * * Mrs. Drake sour, and Miss Noln Drake, are spending a holiday in Opotiki and To Kaha and will return at the end of tin- month to To Kuiti. They will be accompanied on their return. by Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Drake. NEWS OF REV. D. N. MacDIARMID Great anxiety- inis been Je.lt as to the safety <ji" Bov. I). N. and Mis. MacDiamid during the last week. Tiiey were to arrive in Canton on October (5 and remain until the —Dtli. The fall of Canton has been expected daily. Last, night a. cable was received front Bov. Mae Diarmid lrom Hongkong stating: “Mission staff all well”* Rev. and Mirs. Mae Diarmid were al.oaril the steamer “Xellore” a week o.ut from Canton during the fateful day before the Munich agreement and, had war broken out, would have been in a perilous position. Great reliet will he felt by their many friends that they are evidently still in a British possession. They are scheduled to go on to Madras from Hongkong.