KIMBOLTON AND DISTRICT

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1313, 26 January 1928, Page 5

KIMBOLTON AND DISTRICT

PASSING OF A PIONEER

MRS ALICE KNOX’S CAREER

(From Our Own Correspondent)

On Tuesday this district, suffered the loss of one <<f its oldest settlers in the person of Mrs Alice Knox, who passed away soon after midday in Hie house of her daughter, Mrs Petersen. Mrs Knox came lo live in I his dist rict some 35 years ago. before that six l would drive here from Wanganui, her birthplace, to visit her husband, the late Mr .1. T. Knox, who was surveying the country around Kimbolion, then known under its old title of Birmingham. Mrs Knox In those early days drove herself and her children from Wnnganuni to Mart on, spent the night there and proceeded next day to her husband’s camp. After a stay there, she drove hack to Wanganui. Few of us have any idea what such a journey meant in those days, and the dauntless spirit which carried her through then was recogniseable lo the end. When her youngest child was nlimit 36 months old Mrs Knox came to live in the home which she left about a year ago. when she went to hospital and thence lo her daughters. She was an ever ready helper to neighbours, going about doing good. Her eldest son, .James, was killed in France by a bom)). In 35)18. Three sons and one daughter survive her, Mr William Knox and Mr Robert Knox, of Kimbolton. Mr Albert Knox, of Thames, and Mrs Bella Petersen, of Kimbolton. Airs Knox was horn in JBOO and her husband died in September of 1013. At; v the Valley Road Farmers’ Annual Picnic on Wednesday the spirit of the one who had attended it for so many years seemed near lo ns. PICNIC AND SPORTS The day was brilliantly line for the Valley Road Farmers’ annual picnic, and tliclr .member for the district not only attended, hut brought with him his wife and daughters. Mr Eliott was Ihe first member to attend our picnic and he seems to he keeping up the good work. Mr Jensen. as usual, lent his grounds for Ihe occasion, and a walk through his beautiful garden was not the least part of Ihe at trad ions provided. Tile* list of prizewinners was as follows

Boys Race, 9 and over.—Gerald Good all 3, Oswald Waugh 2, Alan McNae 3. Local School Girls. —Trixie Waugh 1, Barbara Turner 2, Eileen Schmidt N •> Boys over (1 and under 9.—Rees Davies 1, Frank Chureher 2, Tom Waugh 5. All the Boys and Girls under 6 who ran received prizes. Girls, 9 and over. —A: M. McKay and A. Foote 1, E. Fooie 3. B: M. Doughty J, T. Waugh 2. H. Pettigrew Single Ladles’ Race. lean Murray j, 11. Denny 2. M. Hills 3. ►Single Menjk Race. —K( Stone 3, M I‘rtdious 2, T. Brazier 3. Married Ladies’ Race.—Mrs Dor-Vi-nfd 3. Mrs Hassall 2. Mrs Tliovenard jun. 3. .Married Men's Race.—E, Hills 1, It. Everiss 2, M. Jensen 3, Ladies’ Potato Race.—Miss Jean Murray I, Miss Lowe 2, Miss Eva lissoll 3. Men’s Potato Race. —D. Stone 1, 11. Byrne 2, T. Jensen 3. Girls’ Potato Race.—M. Doughty 1, E. WinnaJd 2, D. Hall 3. Boys' Potato Race.—R. Thevenard t, P. Thevenard 2. O. Waugh 3. Quo!ls. —Owen Jensen. Distance Stepping.— I. Kilgour 20 - .."a's (correct CO ft 2in. Lamb Guessing.—R. Richardson, TTlbs (correct TtUlfis). Sheep Guessing.—W. Ferguson K)3.]lhs (correct 103-Alha), Tho races were run between lunch and tea, after which the prizes were given out by Mr Gordon Eliott, M.P. A throng of happy folk then turned homewards, most in motors, some in gigs, carls or: on horseback.