FAREWELL GATHERING
At a social gathering at the Ministry of Works camp on Tuesday, August 5, the employees and staff of the Department gathered to bid farewell to Mr J. N. Turnbull, the Engineer at the Wairakei Geo-ther-mal Project, who is leaving shortly to take up duties at the Hydro-De-sign office in Wellington. Several items were given by a number of the workmen, including several spirited hakas by the Maori members. Suitable refreshments were served. Mr McGreevy spoke on behalf of the workmen and expressed their regret at losing a popular engineer and friend. He then presented Mr Turnbull with a well-filled envelope. Other speakers who also expressed their regret at losing Mr Turnbull and Who wished their guest and his- wife every success in their future life, included Messrs. McLellan, Culmer, Gibbons, McMillan. Wall, Parata, Bailey, Gale and Murpfcy. Mr Turnbull in replying stated how sorry he was to be leaving a good body of men and friends, and thanked the men for their much appreciated gift. THe singing of "Now is the Hour" concluded a very enjoyable evening. Jk sfc jfc
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TAUTIM19520813.2.22.1
Bibliographic details
Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 31, 13 August 1952, Page 5
Word Count
183FAREWELL GATHERING Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 31, 13 August 1952, Page 5
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taupo Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in