WAITOTARA PERSONALS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 32, 8 February 1939, Page 10

WAITOTARA PERSONALS

(Own Correspondent). WAITOTARA, Feb. 7. Alter spending several weeks ii< Australia Miss Armstrong has returned Home. Miss Armstrong and her friend, Miss Harkness, New Plymouth, had a delightful holiday, despite the great heat experienced. The many friends of Mr. J. Hopkinson will be pleased to know that he is able to be about again after his recent illness. Sister Train has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. Train, before going to Wellington to take up a post-graduate course. Sister Train nad been on the staff of the Palmerston North Hospital for several years. Mr. and Mrs. Gubbin and (heir daughter have returned from Paraparaumu, where they spent the school holidays. Miss M. J. E. Fraser, Marton, is at present relieving infant mistress al the local school. Mr. H. Hodgetts, Napier, Mrs. J. Mail, and Mrs. J. K. Richardson, Stratford, have been the guests of Mrs. C. Hodgetts. Miss Dorothy Blackie, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. BlacKie, has left for Christchurch, where she will enter the Training College. Miss Blackie has been a pupil of the Wanganui Girls College for several years. Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald and their son Clifton, who were Mrs. W. Hur- • ley’s guests, and Misses N. and J. Fitzgerald, who spent the school holidays with Mrs. A. Hurley, all returned to Horopito last week. Mrs. C. Handley and family who have been camping at the Waverley beach, have returned to their home at Nukumaru. WAITOTARA BEACH

There is no finer beach than the Waitotara beach and if it were better known and the road was not quite so rough for motor traffic it would soon become one of the most popuiai' beaches. On Sunday there were quite a number of cars and lorries with picnic parties, and the fishing was excellent, one man catching eighteen fine schnapper. Other parties were down fishing nearly every evening last week. There are acres of land covered with wonderful stones of all shapes and sizes and it is said that these unusual stones are not to be found in such large numbers anywhere else in New Zealand. There are hundreds of acres of level country so that it is easy walking.