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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 254, 23 July 1936, Page 3

Sir Samuel Hoare, First Lord of the Admiralty, has appointed Mr. H.. V, Markham, M.C., to be his pnneipa private secretary, and Mr. R. R. Powell to bo his assistant, private secretary. Ho has also appointed Mr. W. W. Astor, M.P., to be- his Parliamentary private secretary.

Reference to a tradition that “people do not die at. Onehunga” was made by Mr. J. E. Green at a meeting of the Auckland Historical Society in recalling the longevity of many of the .early pensioner settlers. The authorities in England were paying pensions to men of 80, 90, and even 100 at Onehunga long after their contemporaries elsewhere were dead, he said, and suspicions were aroused that the money might be going astray. So pronounced did these become that a commissioner was sent to New Zealand to make inquiries., and he found the money was going to the original settlers, and further, “that they, were still‘alive.”