WHANGAMOMONA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143473, 21 April 1911, Page 6

WHANGAMOMONA.

(From a Correspondent.)

April 20.—0 n Saturday evening, the 15th inst., the settlers of the Whangamomona district gathered to farewell Mr. and Mrs. Abbott on tho occasion of their vacating tho Whangamomona Hotel. Songs were sang by Messrs. Horlihy, Cutter, Thomas, Jakes, and Reynolds: Mr. Herlihy also recited. Daring the course of tho evening Mr. Abbott was presented with a case of pipes, and Mrs. Abbott and Miss Abbott each with a brooch. In proposing the toast of the guests of tho evening Mr.'- Gleeson said that their departure would bo felt not only by the people of the district but also by tho whole of the travelling public. They had now been in the district for four years and though they had had dealings with all classes and conditions of people ho did not think there was a single one thet would not regret their departure. He said that as far as farming was concerned Mr. Abbott was a man who might be copied with advantage by tho rising generation that is now trying to make a home in the back-blocks. In replying to the toast, Mr. Abbott said that if the Whangamomona Hotel had a good name, and if, as Mr. Gleeson said, they popular and the travelling public well catered for, etc., the whole of tho credit was due to Mrs. Abbott. He had been in ill-health for some time past, but even so, if things had been left to his management ho was afraid the people round him to-night would not bo so well satisfied. Mr. and Mrs. Abbott, when they leave the hotel, are going to live at thoir farm on tho Mangaro Road, and we will not see so much of them in this sphere. However, Ido not think they will bo short of visitors ; in fact, I believe their hospitality will load people to forget what a private residence really is.