PERSONAL

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3998, 12 April 1933, Page 4

PERSONAL

The death is cabled from Washington of Dr. Henry Van Dyke, a noted American poet and essayist, aged 80. Canon Petrie will be representing the Feildin.gr Relief Committee aI, a. conference of Relief Committees to bo held in Wellington this week. The Rev. E. V. Cox, Methodist minister al Morningion, i- contesting the Mayoralty of Dunedin because the Cit\ Council reduced its allocation for the unemployed. The appointment, of the- t Kief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, fo act a.s the deputy of the Govornor-Gon-«>ral during Lord Bledisloe s absence is gazetted. The death is reported from Gisborne of Mr Janies Allen. Horn at Pennecuik in Scotland, in 1838, he came to New Zealand in 1874. settling first, in Feilding. Later he resided in Auckland and Gisborne. Tie was well known as a landscape gardener. Mr W. A. Waters, the Power Board’s engineer at Palmerston, received the news yesterday that his mother, A!r s A. Waters, had passed awav at her residence in Lyall Bay, in her 77th year. She lived for many rears on the Napier road at Ashhurst, where she and her late husband had taken up a bush section from the Manchester Land Corporation in the early eighties. Her husband predeceased her nine years ago. ZS2S2S2S9