CARTERTON

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1941, Page 7

CARTERTON

POPULAR BRIDE-TO-BE ENTERTAINED AT CARRINGTON. (“Times-Age” Special.) Despite the cold weather on Saturday night, the Carrington schoolroom was crowded with settlers, the occasion being a “parcel evening” tendered to Miss Jean Thompson, who will be married on Saturday next. The time was spent in dancing to music supplied by Mr Murray Edwards, extras being ' played by Mr J. Parker, Miss Lola Hopkins and Mr C. Miller. Messrs B. E. Clark and E. L. Rayner were M’s.C. During the evening Mr W. Wilson called upon Miss Thompson to open the many gift parcels which she did amid applause. Mr Gavin Wadham, on 'behalf of his fiancee, suitably thanked those present. Supper, supplied by the ladies of the district, was then partaken of, and dancing resumed till midnight. It was one of the most enjoyable gatherings ever held in the district.

WAR SERVICE

WOMEN’S AUXILIARY. A meeting of the committee of the Women’s War Service Auxiliary was held in the Borough Council Chamz bers yesterday afternoon, there being present Mesdames H. E. Ordish (president), W. H. Hall, A. E. Pink, Miss O. W. Wolters and Mrs F. L. Barr (secretary). The president welcomed Mrs W. H. Hall, the Government nominee, who was elected vice-president. It was left to the president to make arrangements for instruction in connection with the physical culture classes, which it is hoped to commence at an early date. It is hoped that Women’s War Auxiliary members will take advantage of Miss C. Johnston’s lectures on gardening, which are to begin in about a month’s time. Arrangements in regard to the formation of the cycling corps are well in hand.

ORDER OF DRUIDS

TOTARA LODGE MEETING. Arch Druid Bro. B. Neilsen presided over the meeting of Totara Lodge No. <■ 3, U.A.0.D., held last night. Favourable reports on Bro Harold Gobdin, who is in the Masterton Hospital, and Bro R. N. Nunn, who is an inmate of the Waipukurau Sanatorium, .. were received. , \ It was reported that Bro C. S. Daysh ' .tad suffered a relapse of his illness and had returned to the Masterton Hospital. Accounts and sick pay were passed for payment as follows: Social Security sick pay £l2, Lodge sick pay £l4 13s, Grand Lodge quarterage £Bl Is 7d; total, £lOB 4s 7d. Grand Lodge advised that to date four hundred members of the Order were on active service with the N.Z.E.F. overseas.

The half-yearly balance sheet for the period ended May was read and adopted, generaj satisfaction being expressed by members on the progress ' shown during the period. The quarterly return was also read, showing that there were 231 financial benefit members on the roll. Further donations to the ball funds were received, the credit balance now being £39 13s 6d. Dance at Parkvale. On Saturday next another dance and card party, the proceeds from which will be' devoted to patriotic funds, will be held in the Parkvale Hall. From Saturday next similar gatherings will be held every fortnight. These functions are very popular with the residents of the district. Salvation Army. At the’Salvation Army Hall on Sunday evening. Captain Ojala delivered a most interesting address. He took for his text “One Thing is Needful,” Luke 10:42. The speaker told his au-dience-that there was not the slightest doubt that there was one thing needful in our midst, and that was the uplifting of young men and women; in fact all over the world the spiritual beliefs of mankind had for years drifted into oblivion in a great many instances. The people today were crying out for better conditions and a better world to live in. He said that the antedelivians were swallowed by the flood, for the very same excuses we hear all around us today, and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were! / overthrown and their inhabitants anniIjj’ated for the same loose living that Rested today.

Memorial Service.

On Sunday evening next at St. Mark’s Church, at 7 o'clock, the Rev. W. F. Stent will conduct a memorial service in memory of the late Private A. K. Steffert, who died from wounds. Members of Loyal Heart of Oak Lodge, of whom deceased was a member at the time of his death, are invited to be present.

Personal Items.

Mr and Mrs P. Johansen, of Carterton, have received word from their son, Lieut. Johansen, who is in Egypt, stating that he is fit and well.

Street Improvement.

A start was made this morning by the borough workmen to kerb and form the northern footpath from the Marquis Hotel to the railway station.

Vital Statistics.

The vital statistics' for June are: — Births 7, marriages 5, deaths 1. During the half-year ended June, 1941, the registrations were as follow, the figures for the corresponding period in 1940 being given in parentheses:— Births 39 (35), marriages 15 (23), deaths 16 (18).