PLUM TREE TRAGEDY

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1924, Page 11

PLUM TREE TRAGEDY

DEATH OF EDWARD POWER.

. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS-ASSOCIATION.) '. >'_; ... AUCKLAND, ;lst September.-- . Ihsre is. even a greater element' of tragedy jn the aeatn at Plum Tree,: in .Rhodesia',- of Edward Power, formerly headmaster of the "WKangarei ' School, than; the'cablegram from Capetown suggests. Ihe cablegram refers to'his attempt, to murder his wife, but his wife is still in Auckland.: - ' Edward Power, who was about 52 years of age, was a teacher under, the ■ Auckland Education Board', for about .thirty -years.,-. He Was for some years 'in the... Hokianga district, and- subsequently at Wairongamai, near Te Aroha 1 m 90 T 6, ! le. was appointed headmaster •Vm' imn uti';? n, d occupied that position tul 1919-when he was appointed headmaster, at Whangarei. - v ] • ; About three-years ago Power resigned h,s position .at Whangarei, and left the .■Dominion, Ins .whereabouts being unknownrto:h, B most intimate friendsJ Ho nW 3"II- family ofsix alld'a wife in the Dominion. . '■ .Deceased was. well-known in bo^g Jand and Domuiiou tournaments on mim orous o CCas io ns ; His father M."«£known hotelkeeper at Paeroaand -WiHA for:.many.^ear...' A brother, the k^ S"wShtP^ er ' : f°™erly-.Mayor