MORRINSVILLE NEWS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 877, 22 January 1930, Page 14

MORRINSVILLE NEWS

Considerable interest is being shown in the visit to Morrinsville of Miss Lily Copplestone, the swimming coach, who has been engaged by the Morrinsville Swimming Club for a week from Monday next. Officials of the club have already booked up a number of lessons for intending pupils. Miss Copplestone will arrive on Monday morning.

Attendances at tlie Morrinsville Baths are still lower than for the same period last year. The changeable weather has not been attractive for casual patrons. Figures for the last three days are: Monday 91, Sunday 42, Saturday 162. * * •

Rain has fallen at Morrinsville on 11 days out of the first 21 days of January. The rainfall to date is 4.83 in, and the heaviest fall recorded was 1.87 in on January 4. Last year there was no rain in January.

A congregation that taxed the capacity of the recently enlarged St. Matthew’s Anglican Church on Sunday evening bade farewell to the vicar, the Rev. I. W. Wilkes, who left Morrinsville on Tuesday to take up his duties in the parish of Nortlicote.

At the conclusion of the service a farewell function was held, when Mr. C. M. Gummer, vicar’s warden, presented Mr. Wilkes, on behalf of the vestry and parishioners, with a wallet of notes. The Morrinsville Cricket Club has also lost one of its most energetic members by the departure of Mr. Wilkes. At the afternoon tea adjournment of the friendly match between the club, A and B teams, at the Recreation Ground on Saturday afternoon, opportunitj* was taken to give Mr. Wilkes a cricketer’s farewell, and to make a presentation of a travelling rug. * * * A new car driven by a Hamilton motorist, caught fire on the Morrins-ville-Te Aroha Road about half a mile past Tatuanui at about 7 o’clock on Monday evening. The engine was not much damaged, but the body was completely destroyed. Passing motorists stopped to offer assistance, but the back portion of the car was then blazing fiercely, and it was impossible to extinguish the flames.

A deputation of residents of Moorhouse Street, with Mr. F. Lye. M.P., waited upon Mr. W. T. Langbein, as-sistant-engineer of the New Zealand Railways, asking for the opening of the street in question to the railway line. The engineer said that the work would cost £BO. The department was willing that the road should be opened, but would not bear the cost. He would like to see a concrete offer made by the Borough Council or the residents.