HAMILTON NEWS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 755, 30 August 1929, Page 10

HAMILTON NEWS

thol>! C „ C i, e f fU |. season is reported bv Railway Tennis Club, the pa S T' S els l on n w mt,C '^ l *^ :)l “ho Showing Officers were elected:—. estdent. Mr. O. Green; club captain, L Greene; secretary. Mr V .1. Grlen" der; de t> u ty-cu plain. Miss E. Messri T c “ mn .“ttee, Mrs. Scott and ton '" J ' CraiK ’ J - Ev ans and J. 80lThe golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Pheasant, of Willoughby Street, Pm! U ° ra ’ 'Y. 33 cel ebrated this week. born in Eeighton Buzzard, I oSa d h i^ e ’ and married at Islington, d ™- Dlr. and Mrs. Pheasant, who £f® . 7 ® and SO respectively, came to ;hfl tim! o, nd 22 years ago. Most of J th£ S", have tired in Hamilton, Vmro Mr. Pheasant has carried on trade as a carpenter and joiner. 4no family comprises two sons and two daughters. Mr. W. Pheasant, of Queensland. Mr. A. J. Pheasant, of Whitora, and Mesdames K. Armswortu of Durban, South Africa. Fo» the first time a Hamilton musicai event was broadcast through the agency of IYA with complete success, on , Wednesday evening. -This was the sacred cantata, “The Holy City, ’ which was given a remarkably fine interpretation by Hamilton artists in St. Paul’s Methodist Lnureli. Both choral and solo work ere of a distinctly high standard and the performers have received congratulations from many listeners-in in many parts of the Xorth Island. The artists included Mesdames F. Gadd, V. Clark, T. S. "Webster and Messrs. T. Webster, K. P. Eade, H. Worm and "The Constant Wife,” by Somerset Maugham, has been chosen by the Hamilton Little Theatre Society for its next production. Rehearsals will commence next week. It is understood the forthcoming production of the Hamilton Operatic Society. "Gipsy Love,” will bo broadcast by IYA. Rehearsals have been proceeding satisfactorily and this year’s show promises to be a great success. Father Leen, the assistant priest at the Church of Our Lady of the RosarY, Hamilton East, was given an enthusiastic farewell on Wednesday evening at a social function. The priest, who has been in Hamilj ton for the last three years, lias been j appointed to take charge of the Coroi mandel district. A substantial chcquo I was presented to him by Mr. T. Roach i on . behalf of the parishioners. High tributes to Father Leen’s zealous serI and organising ability were paid Lhir Mr. Roach and Father Bleak! ev*