PERSONAL MATTERS
Mr. Percy Oughton is leaving by tho Tahiti on Tuesday for a holiday trip to the Society and Cook Islands. While in Tahiti he will bo tho guest of Captain Lindsay.
The death took place at Beef ton of Mr. W. E. M'Levie, a well-known and : successful mining investor. The deceased, who was in his eighty-eighth year, was born in Yorkshire of Scottish parentage, arrived in tho Dominion in time to participate in the gold rush at Gabriel's Gully in 1863 and at Dunstan, and at. the last-named place became a hotelkeeper, later having licensed houses at Wanganui and Hokitika, arriving in Eeefton over fifty years ago. The late Mr. M'Levie possessed keen 1 usiness ability, and few, if any, had a wider knowledge of mining matters. He was a shareholder in all the leading gold-producing mines in the Inangahua. The Eev. E. M'Levie, of St. Peter's Church,*Wollington, is a nephew of the late Mr. M'Levie.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 39, 14 August 1926, Page 11
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158PERSONAL MATTERS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 39, 14 August 1926, Page 11
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