PERSONALS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 12373, 12 October 1934, Page 4

PERSONALS

Mr. M. Kennedy, manager of th° Wellington Gas Co., is at present on a: visit to Gisborne.

Visitors to. Gisborne this week ITI- - the Rev. G. Bu<ld of Auckland, and Rov. John Laughton, of Tnupo.

Tributes to the memory of i4 lc late Mr 11. K. Holland, formerly Leader of the Opposition, who died on October 8 of last, year, were paid by supporters of the, Lafcouv Party yesterda v morning when about 80 persons gathered in the Sydney street cemetery, Wellington. "U reaths wore laid on behalf of a number o.f ilnranHies of uh.r< Labor (PairjlJy,. and speeches wore delivered by Mr M. J. Savage, Leader of the Opposition, Mr. H. T. Armstrong, M.P., president of the New Zealand Labor Party, Air. J. Roberts, secretary ot the Alliance of Labor, and Air. P. C. Webb, AI.P., for Buffer .—P.A.

Private advice was received m Wellington last nigbii of the death at scai yesterday morning of Air. Edward Vivian Riddiford, of Glenlrarn: and Tablelands. Air. Riddiford who was aged -5->. was returning; from n trip to England in the Rangit.iki. which is due at Auckland on October 24 and was accompanied bv his wife and daughter Pamela.. One of the Dominion’s best- known add most successful pastoralists. Air Riddiferd whose home was Woburn, Lower Huff, was equally prominent in racing circles. He was a member of family whoso turf associations are part, of the history of the sport in finis country. Ho, with his brother Erie, won a large number, of tho principal andicap races in New Zealand, including the New Zealand Cup the Auckland Gup, and the Grand ■National. On Ids own account. Air. Riddiford was the holder of the Wellington Cup,. the A fitch el son Cup and other coveted trophies-.. Air. Riddiford w:(i ecLirate'd at A\ (vriganuT Gollcgiate school and began his career as ft.- sheepfarmer as a cadet at Tcawaiti, the Waivarapa property of his father. Air. E. V. Riddiford. He later managed h.is father's properties at Longhorn and Cheltenham and, upon the latter’s death in 1911 took over, the Clonburn sheep aaid cattle run on the .Last Coast Tablelands, the Romney Marsh, sheep stud in the Wairnrapa and Brentwood, the noted Trentham raeinja staid. Mr Rtiddiford married Miss Zoe Thorne George, third daughter of the Hon. Seymour Thorne George of Auckland Their two daughters are Airs. J. Voigcii, Lower Hutt and Miss Pa-melai Riddiford. —P.A.