PERSONAL

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 523, 2 May 1925, Page 5

PERSONAL

A London cable message reports the. death of Sir Richard Hu tier, a former Premier of South Australia.

Air C. R. Rabbits has hoen appointed to succeed Air Payne as Alarlhorougli manager for Dalgetv and Co. ~, Air S. A. Clover,-/ of the Bank of Australasia, Gisborne, is being transferred to Affirton. Air o|oyer lias been for 20 years on the. Gisborne staff, latterly as aeeonntant. Air Henry F.llingham, of Alnngntoro Valley, the retiring member of. the . Wellington Land Board, was returned unopposed for a term oi two years. Air Kllingham has served 10 years on the hoard as the tenants’ representative. Air E.'E. Booth, one of the <»ngfna! All . Blacks, who accompanied tho 1921-5 All Blacks on their recent trip as a corespondent, came hack in n new role. He was welfare officer or the Jervis Bay and in charge of a number of immigrants lor Queensland. There passed away at his home at, To Puna a well known Afaori chief, Potana Tangifu, alter an illness ot only two days. Tnngitu was a chief of high rank in the Piriraukau tribe, and also highly connected with some of the Waikato tribes. At one time he was a keen racing enthusiast, and the owner of several well known racehorses. Of late years lie devoted liis time to dairy farming, which he made a great success on his lands at Te Puna. He is .survived by a family of 10 children, four of whom (Tu, Tom, Isaac, and George Tangitu) are noted athletes and Rugby football players.

The Feilding troop of Boy Scouts arc- to he called on parade next week, probably on Thursday. The Afanawatu-Horowhenua com,bined Rugby team meets Wellington at Athletic Park on Saturday, Sepfemehr 20. , Special thanksgiving services and offerings will be field and made in St Paul’s Presbyterian Church tomorrow. There are 100 houses in and around .Sauson ready and waiting for electric light to be switched oil by the Alanawatu-Ofoua Power 'Board.

Tho following was Clio voting oi the Wellington Harbour Board elec tiou in the Kiwi tea county: <l. G Cobbo 45, 0. ’Jolley 32, AT. Cohen 30, informal 3.

Tn our report of the Mangarimu shooting match on Thursday, it was stated that H. Haycock won the nine-bird sweepstake. This was incorrect. TT. Haycock and J. Tse<v\t tied, and there was no shoot-off. e-

“Rents in Wellington are the highest in New Zealand,” declared M « J. Read at the Dairy Employees' Union Conciliation in Wellington, 1 ‘lf not the highest in the world,' ’ commented another assessor.

Manawatu County Council’s estimate of £139,000 for Main Highways requirements has been whittled down by the National Board to £10;),000 for alleged actual requirements. Of this amount, the Comrril will have io go on the market for £60,000, the Board finding £45,000.

A Wellington resident had the unique experience on Tuesday night of seeing a small meteor drop into the harbour between Somes Island and Point Jerningham. It was too dark at the time to see whether the heavenly visitor raised any splash, but the observer states that tno meteor made a very pretty sight as it hurled down, leaving a trail of lire behind it in the mannei of,,iis kind.

In the course Of his remarks at the annual meeting of the Returned Soldiers’ Association/ in Dunedin, the former secretary said that although it was no w seven years since the Armistice there, were still approximately 100 returned Soldiers’ in varioiis hospitals and asylums in Otago who' were still suffering as a result of war injuries. There were about 30 men in Seacliff, 25 to 30 at Monteeillo, and an average of 20 in the hfimedin hospital, and there were also patients in Waknri, Pleasant Valley, arid other country hospitals.

Thousands of wooden crosses fraifi the graves of New Zealand soldiers in France and Flanders are being removed and -• replaced iby headstones. Archbishop Ayer ill suggests that some of these crosses might be sent out to the Dominion and preserved. “They would be a help and an inspiration lo us and to our children,” he said. “iTe have death-dealipg weapons all over the country. , These would he emblems of sacrifice. I submit the idea to the. Returned Soldiers’ Association. Perhaps, by "the help of our Gover-nor-General, we might he able to get a few of these symbols.”