AKAROA.
Cold, wintry weather, with heavy rain, was experienced on the Peninsula on Sunday. Monday morning broke bright and sunny, but towards evening heavy showers of.sleet and hail began, and continued throughout Tuesday. On Saturday afternoon last the. members of the Akaroa Howling Club met on their green to bid farewell to ATr W. T. Handle, who is leaving tho district. The president (the Rev. J. W. Hayward), in saying good-bye, presented Mr Randlc with a ease of pipes as a token of esteem from the members of tho club. A very old Peninsula settler passed away on Sunday night at Stony Bay in tho person of Mr James Boleyn, at'the ago of 82 years. Tho deceased Rent-lc-man came to the Peninsula in tho early 'fifties, and for somo years worked in Pigeon Hay. Ho purchased his property at Stony Bay in 1860. Mr Holeyn was a member of tho Akaroa County Council in IRBO, and for many years sat ns a member of the Okain's Road Board. The Royal Humane Society has forwarded a. framed certificate, to tho Mayor of Akaroa for public presentation to R. N. Thomas, a lnd of eleven years, who rescued a child from drowning at tho Akaroa wharf.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14343, 1 May 1912, Page 11
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AKAROA.
Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14343, 1 May 1912, Page 11
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