PERSONAL.

Otaki Mail, 24 February 1919, Page 2

PERSONAL.

1 ! Hr W. ,7. Row is indulging in a short ! holiday, and at present ie in Wanganui. Dr. and Mrs Ituthwuite, who liavo ■ been speuding a few days in Wellingi ton, returned homo on Saturday night.

Mrs Herbert Bright, who has been seriously ill in Wellington, returned to her homo at Otaki on Saturday night considerably improved.

Mr Frank’ I’cnn left Otaki on Friday cn route for Christchurch, where he will represent this district on tho Methodist Conference. Mcsdames IV. H. Reynolds and Summers, both of whom have been in indifferent health, left for Taihapo today for h fortnight's holiday. Mr and Mrs Williams, who have been connected with the Boys’ Training Farm’at Weraroa for the past eleven years, have resigned to take up a position in Auckland. Mr C. E. Cumpsty left for the Wairarapa on Friday night, and will return, with Mrs Cumpsty, this evening. The latter has been enjoying several weeks’ holiday at Clarcville. Mr E. Booth, of Otaki, celebrated his 84th birthday on Saturday, when he was the recipient of mttny congratulations, including one from the local bowling club, of which he is art active member. For quarter of a century Dean T. McKenna has laboured in the Pahiatua parish, and the, jubilee of his ministry will bo celebrated shortly. A new Convent School is now in course of erection to commemorate the event. Mrs Robertson, who was injured some time ago by being thrown from a car on the Paekakariki Hill, and Mr Montague, of Wellington, who fell from a motor’ car in Otaki", have both been discharged from the Otaki Hospital.

Miss Thurston, the American young lady who is organising for the Chautauqua, accompanied by Mrs B. E. Gardener, Levin, paid a visit to Otaki on Saturday, and interviewed several, -prominent citizens, who have decided, to organise locally for the'Chautauqua. The ladies also paid a visit to-Otaki's new seaside resort. Cr. John Taylor, of Tawa Flat, who !is leaving , the district to reside at Otaki in the early future, was enter-' ‘ tained at a farewell gathering in the local sehoolhotise on Saturday night. The building was crowded with residents of the neighbourhood and surrounding district. Mr James, chairman of the school committee, presided, and at the cad, of a eulogistic address presented Cr. Taylor with a handsome silver tea service as .a memento of the esteem and appreciation, which he had won from the residents' of Tawa Flat. ...The - Rev. Mr EamaxLer, of Poriraa. and Mr F. T. Moore, of Johnsqnville, in the coarse of appreciative speeches, related how the guest of the' evening had oecome the leading man of the district. His methods as'a farmer were modeG for others to copy, £.nd his benevolence ic social affairs

y.&i an example. In public matters he was always icrnpulocsly just. Cr. 1 Taylor is the youngest son of the late | Captain James Taylor, aaa his'-mother, k ttinety-three yeari'of age, looking T-as-prestov . wonoennliy well tor her lona j ’ m<C'