Ohakune people a lot more friendly

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 3, Issue 12, 13 August 1985, Page 4

Ohakune people a lot more friendly

For her 80th birthday last week, Mrs Maisie Hill was presented with a silver goblet, a bouquet of flowers and a birthday cake by the Ohakune Club. Mrs Hill has lived in Ohakune for 17 years thismonth and has been associated with the Ohakune Club for almost as long. She is a keen bowls player for the club in both indoor and outdoor versions of the game. For her birthday. her only daughter. Mrs Sue Edwards came from Balclutha and

stayed with her for a week. She was given flowers from the outdoor bowling club and a spray of flowers and a cake from the 'indoor girls'. Originally, Mrs Hill came from Scotland in 1927. She married in 1939 but her husband. who was a private in the army, went overseas for five years soon after. Mr Hill was first in Egypt then was captured in Greece and sent to Germany. "He was 17 stone when he left and when he came back he weighed only nine," says Mrs Hill. She worked at the hospital in Masterton for 1 3 years and her daughter was born there in 1946. When Mr Hill returned, they moved to Waiouru, where he was a corporal in REMEat the ATG.

Mr Hill died in 1964 and Mrs Hill moved to Wanganui for four-and-a-half years, where she was not happy. She then moved to Ohakune, where she says "the people are a lot more friendly." Mrs Hill knew a few peo-

ple in Ohakune before she came, through RSA socials and she soon got to know many more. She now enjoys a beer and a game of cards in the Ohakune Club every Friday night. "They're all very friendly there."