PERSONAL

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 837, 17 July 1926, Page 4

PERSONAL

Premier Coates is confined to his bed with a severe cold. Air A. Stanley Warwick has gone to Onmnru to act as adjudicator at j the competitions. Air _E. D. Thomson, permanent head of the Prime .Minister’s Department, is laid up with influenza. The Alimsfer of Education, the Hon. It. A. AVright, goes to Hawera to-day to receive deputations on educational matters. He returns on Alontlav. Tiie travelling ’ secretary of -the. Afethodist Young Men’s Bible Class Union, will preach at the Methodist Church to-morrow morning, and. the Rev. P. W. Jones in the evening. Air E. B. Watson, of Palmerston' North, who has been secretary ot the New Zealand ‘Sheepowners’ Acknowledgment of Debt to British Seamen Fund since its inception, is resigning from the position. Air R. AY. AVaterliou.se, manager of the Napier branch oi the N.Z. Loan and Alercantile Agency Co., Ltd., is retiring at the end of August, after 47 years in the Company’s service. Air J. A.‘ ; BcvinDannevirke agent for the N.Z. Loan and Alercantile Agency Go., Ltd., has • been transferred to Waipukurau.. Air Bevin s position will be filled by Air E. Seandrett, the firm’s stock a'genl and auctioneer in Dannevirke. Air C. Lash lie returned from AYellington last night after attending the annual conference of A.ALP. agents, at which lie was unanimously elected President for the ensuing vear. -

The death occurred at her residence, “Elmswell,” Marten, of Doris Hose Cracroft, wife ol Mr Robert Adam Wilson, and daughter of Miami Mrs Cracroft Wilson, of Christchurch. The Feilding Show Committee last night adopted a motion of sympathy with the widow and relatives ol the late Mr Bold. Mcßeth. In moving the proposal, Mr B. N. Sandilands spoke of Mr Mcßeth as a pioneer settlor of the district, greatly loved and respected, whose death would be a great loss. The mortal remainsyof M r Bobt. Mcßeth were interred in the Kiwitea cemetery yesterday. A shorL ,service wa s conducted at the Kiwi teaClmrcH by the Rev. Mayo. Tjie pallbearers were Messrs A. and T. Shannon, E. E. Short, Dr. Beedie (Dannevirke)', C. 'Evans and W. Parsons. There were a large number of beautiful wreaths from a wide circle of friends and relations.

Professor Stapleton, Director of the Agricultural Experimental Station at Aberystwith, Wales, was a visitor to Feilding yesterday. In charge of Mr L. J. Wild, headmaster of-the Feilding Agricultural High School, he attended ,the meeting of the show Committee last night, and at the invitation of the ' President, briefly addressed the , meeting. Pi-ofessor Stapleton spoke oil the production of pasture plant seeds, saying that if New Zealand could produce suitable species of cocksfoot, clover, dogstad ami other seeds, there was a big market for them in England. . At the present time England imported these seeds principally from. Denmark and other Continental countries. The ProfessOj. also spoke on top-dressing experiments, hut was. guarded in his statements. He would not advise what manures were best for New Zealand soils. That was a matter for local experts.