REPOROA NOTES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 570, 29 June 1933, Page 6

REPOROA NOTES

Our Own Correspondent).

ENJOYABLE COMING OF AGE PARTY HELD

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After nineteen successive frosts, light rain fell on Sunday there being no frost that morning. * * * * The eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. N. Forrest, Dorothy, celebrated her twenty-first birthday on Saturday. Miss Forrest was at one time postmistress at Wharepaina, but has removed to Auckland. However, she is.spending* a few days with her parents, who gave a party last night (Saturday) in her honour. Among those present were: — Miss Keeling (Auckland), Jean Hickey, Elsie and Winnie Craig, Rona Lowry, Jean Andrews (Tauranga), May Wood, Messrs. Lance and Terry Handcock, Garth S'eccombe, Harry Hickey, Chas. Bryanton (Whakatane) . * * * One of the oldest settlers in Reporoa, Mrs. II. Ferguson, was admitted"to King Street privat-e hospital on Saturday, suffering from eye trouble. She will be under treatment for a * - * * week. The Reporoa branch of the W.E.A. has held four' good meetings, attended by twelve students. Meetings are now to be held every Tuesday night. Mr. B. W. Friis is able this week to revisit his home at Dannevirke for the first time in eight years. Mr. Friis was the first married soldier settler in Reporoa and is now able to leave the farm in charge of his sons. Motoring* through he takes his sister Freda, also Mrs. Lawrence and Mr. W. Archer. He is likely to be away for a fortnight. * * * Mr. Drabble who recently passed away at Tauranga was the father of Mrs. R. Brown, president of the Reporoa branch, W.D. N.Z.F.U.