EKETAHUNA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 December 1940, Page 7

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HEART TO HEART APPEAL DONATIONS ACKNOWLEDGED. (“Times-Age” Special.) The list acknowledged below comprises donations received from the Tiraumea area, where the total collection amounted to £l2O 19s 6d, with the sum of £BB4 Is 7d already acknowledged. This makes a total to date of £lOO5 Is Id. Alfredton detailed returns are not yet to hand but indications are that a total of £3OO will bo received from that area. Taking this figure, the total raised in the county will be approximately £1325, as against a population, quota of £l2oo:—Previously acknowledged, £BB4 Is 7d; G. C. Hart £3, V. O’Brien ss, A. C. P. Hay £5, R. Harman £2, G. H. Hart ss, J. Duncan £l, M. Robbie £l. P. McManaway 2s 6d, Hart Family £2. C. E. Robbie £5, E» Jewitt £5, H. M. Hansen £l, J. A. Hansen 2s 6d, R. J. Harman £4, R. Thomas £2, J. Olsen £2 2s, Gordon Robbie £l, IV. Watts 10s, B. Stephenson £l, Liverton Bros £5, G. Carberry ss, O. F. Wright 10s, L. Bowering 10s 6d, S. Smillie 10s, Livertpn Estate £5, C. Smith £l, J. White’ss, F. Herbert £l, Mrs B. Wright 10s, Miss Picket 10s, N. Mi. Hislop £l, Gordon Houlbrooke £l, Graham Richardson £3, Mrs Dunne 2s 6d, John Savage £2 2s, R. Robbie £2, Mr and Mrs C. T. Richardson £25, C. Spenser ss, W. Bowring 3s, W. H. Wallis ss, G. M. Curtis 10s, R Houlbrooke 10s, S. Mathews ss, L. S. Curtis ss, D. Curtis ss, W. Carlson ss, T. O. S. Raleigh £5, E. Lindergreen 7s 6d, A. H. Herbert & Co £5, J.R. 10s, H. Seymour £l, B. Wright 2s 6d, H. W. Higginson £2 10s, W. Smith ss, Laing Bros £3 10s, T. Smith £l, H. M. Hansen £3, L. G. Houlbrooke £2, Tiraumea Patriotic Committee £8 9s 6d; total to date, £lOO5 Is Id.

Personal Items. Mr and Mrs F. Robinson, Stanley Street, are visiting Christchurch. Mr and Mrs A. H. Gray and family, Bridge Street, left yesterday on a motoring tour of the North Island. Mrs E. Coster, Stanley Street, is visiting Waipukurau. Mr and Mrs R. Holford are spending a holiday at Hunterville. Mrs E. Hafrdwicke, Wellington, is the guest of her parents, Mr and Mrs E. D. Toohill, Church Street. Mr and Mrs J. S. Tripe are visiting Wellington. Mr and Mrs Alan Jesson (Wellington) are the guests of Mr and Mrs G. Jesson. Mr and Mrs J. R. Berney are visiting relatives at Masterton for the holidays. Mr and Mrs F. Robinson and family, are on a visit to Christchurch. Mr and Mrs A. H. Gray and family are on a motor tour of the North Island. Mr and Mrs R. Holford and family are visiting Mrs Coleman, Hunterville. Mrs E. Coster, Senr., is. visiting her son, Mr G. Coster, Waipukurau. Mr and Mrs A. Hansen are on a visit to Alfredton. Mr and Mrs W. Sturgeon, Stanley Street, are spending a holiday at Hihitahi. Mr and Mrs J. Tolley and family are on a holiday at Plimmerton. Mr A. Olsen, Wellington, spent Christmas with his parents. Mr pud Mrs W. Olsen. Mr and Mrs A. Dawson, Auckland, are the guests of the former’s parents, Mr and Mrs W. Dawson, Bridge Street. Miss Mitchell is on a visit to friends in Taranaki. Mrs E. Jones. Alfredton Road, is visiting her daughter, Mrs Che'w, Johnsonville. Mrs G. Utting, Stanley Street, is spending a holiday in North Auckland. Local soldiers who are home on Christmas leave are Privates S. Petersen, W. J. Reason, J. B. Worthington, and N. Liardet. Mr and Mrs V. Jesson, Wellington, are visiting the former’s parents, Mr' and Mrs Ci. Jesson.

Mr P. Payne returned home last Saturday, having completed his training at the Dannevirke military camp. Mr and Mrs M. Dysdale, Wanganui, are on a visit to the formers mother. Mrs J. Drysdale, Macara Street. Wet Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve was very unpleasant as far as the weather was concerned, rain falling heavily and there being a cold bleak wind. These conditions, however, did not keep the public flocking into the streets, and the shops were filled with snoppers. Shopkeepers stated that the Christmas trade was well up to past years.