WAIHI AFFAIRS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 357, 18 May 1928, Page 2

WAIHI AFFAIRS

FAREWELL TO OLD RESIDENTS The annual meeting of parshioners of St. John's Anglican Church, Waihi, was held in the church hall on Wednesday. In the absence, through illness, of the vicar, the Rev. Canon Wayne, Mr. E. Dunston presided. The balance sheet showed a ■nail deficit in the church funds, but with the introduction of the duplex envelope system, the members hoped to more than make this up during the coming year. The election of officers resulted: People’s warden, Mr. H- *>• Dale; vicar's warden, Mr. E. Durston, vestry, Messrs. H. Chilvers, F. Heath. A. T. Crosher, W. H. Yates. H. James, R. C. D. Lightbourne, E. Speak, F. Rsj. * * * The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Houghton, of Waikino. had a narrow escape from drowning on Tuesday. The little child, while P» a -" ing near some water, tumbled in ac was carried some distance before being rescued. She received medical txt& ment, and is now '’-ogressing favourably. * * * A social and dance was held in mata Public Hall on Tuesday evening for the purpose of riaking prese tations to the McGrath and families, who are leaving the w district. The McGrath family been in the fanning industry for o 21 years, being among the nrst take up land on the Waihi Plains, w Mr. and Mrs. Sewell and been in the district for over ten y * Mr. Len Roberts presented Mre- *• Grath with a travelling rug and & McGrath with a handbag. k Mrs. Sewell received a handsom© and Miss Sewell a manicure^J- • McGrath, junr„ tendered behalf of his mother and sis^ e J\ lf ©f Mr. Sewell responded on benan himself and family. mosi* During the evening SOTi^sal }z. Mescal items were contributed oy dames Greenwood, M Miss McGrath,*Mr. T. Hi f k *V wJris T. Kennedy. Messrs. Roberts. and Williams proved efficient