TWO-ISSUE BALLOT

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 76, 21 June 1927, Page 4

TWO-ISSUE BALLOT

A BIG PETITION WOMEN AND TEMPERANCE During the past month the members of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union have been busily engaged in obtaining signatures of the women electors of the Auckland district in favour of a two-issue ballot paper, and opposing an extension of time, between the licensing polls. The petition has been signed by over 15,000 women electors in the Auckland district, and would have been much larger had time permitted. Deputations have waited upon, and presented the petition to, the following member: of Parliament: —Messrs. A. Harris, E. D. McLennan, AV. J. Jordan, J. S Dickson, H. G. R. Mason. A'. H. Potter. J. A. Lee, and M. J. Savage, and have received a very sympathetic hearing. POPULAR WOMAN FETED A King Country Pioneer At the annual ball conducted by the Plunket Society at Taringamotu. near Taumarunui, last week, a very pleasant interlude took place when the gathering of upwards of 200 settlers and friends participated in a presentation to Mrs. J. Coogan, who is resigning her position on the Plunket Committee after continuous service for over eight years. During this period Airs. Coogan has been an enthusiastic supporter of the society’s work, and has proved this in a practical manner by giving her own time and the use of her horse and gig when necessary to convey the nurse on her rounds in the district. Mrs. Coogan was one of the pioneers of the fertile Taringamotu Valley, having been among the first to strike in there over 21 years ago, when the only means of ingress was a Maori track through the manuka. For many years her home was a lonely outpost, but with the coming of the sawmills and the putting down of steel tramways settlement was speeded up, and the Coogan homestead became the centre of social activity in the growing area, noted far and wide for its open hospitality. When the plague of influenza raged in 1918, Mrs. Coogan performed yeoman service for both Europeans and natives, and proved a tower of strength in that trying period. She has always been at the forefront of all social and charitable movements in the district, and it is safe to say the members of her family are among the most popular residents of the Central King Country. As a mark of the appreciation her service had realised in the community, Mrs. Coogan was presented with a serviceable travelling rug and a beautifully engraved handbag.

A SUCCESSFUL DANCE AT OI LA KUNE A very successful “Joyland” dance was held in aid of the Anglican Church Car Fund in the Railway Social Hall at Ohakune recently, when a very large number of dancers were present. Several amusing, competitions were indulged in during the evening and resulted as follows: Lucky Cluiin AValtz. —Mrs. Hutchinson and Mr. Benbrook. Click Clack Waltz. —Miss D. Burling and Mr. Emerson. Jazz. —Miss D. Wood *and Mr. J. Petersen. Roulette Waltz. —Miss Kingston and Mr. Meads. Mr. Hawles was at the piano and played a selection of pleasing dance tunes, while the duties of M’s.C. were carried out by Messrs. Blakeway and A. Harry. The gratifying sum of £l4 was added to the church fund as a result of the dance.