The marriage between Eleanor, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs H de Lacy Peake, of ‘Denbigh’, Hairini, and Brian Malcolm Hague, third son of Mr and Mrs A Hague, of Leeds, Yorkshire, England, was solemnised at St Paul’s Church.
Bridal party de Lacy Peake and Hague 1933
The bride wore a frock of parchment satin cut on long, graceful lines. The bodice was close-fitting with long sleeves and a cape effect in parchment georgette embroidered with pearls. She wore a veil of lovely Brussels net, lent by Mrs Elliot Myers, of Te Awamutu, and carried a sheaf of lilies. The bridesmaids were the Misses Dorothy de Lacy Peake and Joyce Littleproud, and Jill Mair was the small flower girl. The bridesmaids’ frocks were of blue and primrose georgette respectively, trimmed with flowered taffetas. They wore large picture hats of crinoline straw, and carried muffs to tone, trimmed with marigolds. The flower-girl wore a frock of leaf green organdie and carried a basket of flowers. Mr H de Lacy Peake, jnr was best man, and Mr Jack Thomson was groomsman. After the ceremony a reception was held in the Parish Hall, Te Awamutu, and later at the home of the bride. Mr and Mrs Brian Hague left for the honeymoon, the latter travelling in a tailored suit of brown tweed worn with a brown hat and furs.
A tornado swept over Paterangi leaving a trail of damage in its wake. Corrugated iron roofs were lifted and carried some distance by the ferocity of the wind. A large shed on Adams’s Paterangi farm was reduced to a pile of twisted sheets of corrugated iron, while Mr Hughes’s residence at Ngāhinapōuri had its roof torn off and a chimney levelled. On Mr Beere’s farm the milking shed was completely demolished; the roofing iron being scattered over a quarter of a mile. No one was injured by the visitation.
A Moth aeroplane which had caused excitement at Te Rapa by careering round the aerodrome ended up a mass of burned wreckage on the roadside half a mile north of Ōhaupō. The Western Federated Flying Club sent a motor lorry from New Plymouth to take the damaged aeroplane to the club’s hangar and the fire occurred on the return journey. The aeroplane was mounted on the lorry with a drum containing the gas drained from the tank of the aeroplane. When the lorry was negotiating a hill, the driver noticed in the mirror a sudden glare of light, and within a few moments the aeroplane and the truck were blazing. Both were totally destroyed.
When the Limited Express train reached Te Awamutu at 10 one night the police arrested a middle-aged man, who had travelled from Auckland lying on the top of a carriage. In the Te Awamutu Court, he was charged with being an idle and disorderly person. The man said he wanted to return to Taumarunui, where he hoped to find work. Having no money for his fare he climbed on top of a carriage and travelled 100 miles in the cold night air. He offered to walk the other 75 miles to Taumarunui if he was not sent to jail. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon.
