PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 September 1924, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

O. Hawken and R. Masters, M.P. s, were passengers by the mail tram to Wellington this morning. Professor Hunter, of Victoria College, was in Hawera yesterday, and attended the meeting of the W.E.A. Class last evening. He left for the south by the express this morning. The Lepperton correspondent of the Taranaki Herald reports the death of Mrs. W. Feakins, senr., which took place on Monday. Her health had been somewhat indifferent for some time. Mrs. Feakins, who was a daughter of the late George Neal, one of Lepperton’s pioneers, had lived at Lepperton practically all her life. Mr A. H. Andrews, who has been employed by the Egmont Box Co. as machinist for a large number of years, has severed his connection with the company, and has taken a position in Frankton. On Monday evening Mr Andrews was accorded a social evening by the members of the local Foresters’ Lodge, of which he was secretary for a considerable period, and has done excellent work for the lodge. He was piesented with a gold-mounted fountain pen by the lodge members. X: who left here on a Wembhng ’ expedition to the Old Country some six months ago, is expected hack at. any* time now (says our Whareroa correspondent). No doubt Mr Nowell, who is an ardent Jersey fancier, will bring back some of the antelopes of the Channel” with him Another local resident, Miss Dorothv Benton, is staying with friends in the South of England, and will probably return before the.northern winter sets in.