PALMERSTON PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 93, 14 January 1926, Page 4

PALMERSTON PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. J. Linklater, M.P., will leave Palmerston North for Wellington this afternoon to attend a meeting of trustees of the New Zealand Sheepowners’ Acknowledgment of Debt to British Seamen T'uud on Friday, and to transact business in connection with his constituency. He is expected to return to his home to-morrow night.

Mr. Walter Strang, of Palmerston North, who has been on an extended holiday trip in England, is expected to arrive in Wellington on Monday by the Makura from ’Frisco. He will probably proceed to his old home at Awapuni immediately he lands, in order to complete arrangements in connection with the handing over of the homestead to the trustees of the New Zealand Sheepowners’ Acknowledgment of Debt to British Seamen Fund for the Girls’ Flock House.

Air. T. R. Lees, managing trustee of Flock House, accompanied bv the secretary to the New Zealand Sheepowners’ Acknowledgment of Debt to British Seamen Fund, will leave Palmerston North for Wellington to-morrow morning to attend the annual meeting of trustees.

An old Palmerston North resident, Mrs. Elizabeth Knowles, passed away in her ninetieth year last Friday at the residence of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. C. A. Knowles, Stanley Bay, Auckland. The late Airs. Knowles was born in Hendon, England, in October, 1836, and came to New Zealand about thirty years later. Several years were spent in Wellington, and later with her husband she lived at the Cust, Canterbury; In. 1904 Airs. Knowles took up residence with her son in College Street, Palmerston North, where she lived until the family moved to the north in 1914. Almost to the last she retained the full use of her faculties, and up till the time of her death she took a keen interest in church work, to which she devoted the greater part of her time. The late Mrs. Knowles is survived by one son, one daughter, 13 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. Afiss E. Rawlins, L.T.C.L., L.A.8., is at present in Christchurch cn route for Dunedin, where she will represent the Palmerston North branch of the Professional Musicians’ Association at the conference which is being held in the latter city.