PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 September 1924, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr B. W. B. Hunt, lately schoolmaster at Oeo, left. Hawera by the mail train this morning to take up a position on the staff of the Beresford Street School at Auckland.

Mr Charles Lo-ver. who died in Auckland last week, aged 86 years, had been a resident of New Zealand for over 60 years. His wife nassed a wav in 1921 at the age of 82. i At the theory examinations held in Stratford in connection with Trinity College, London, in June last, Margaret Matilda Kerr, pupil of Miss K. Sanderson, passed the junior examination with 95 marks (honours). An Auckland message reports the death o.f Mr Albert Sanford, aged 80, founder of Sanford’s fishing wholesale business.

A London cable announces the death of Viscount Long, who was Secretary for the Colonies from 1916 to. 1919 and then First Lord of the Admiralty till 1921. He was 70 years of age. The death, is reported from Sydney of the driver of the first locomotive in use in New South Wales, Mr Edward Williams, at the age of 88 years. The locomotive has been in the. Sydney Museum for nearly half a century.

Mrs and Mrs W. Williams and son left by the mail train this morning for Te Aroha, where Mr Williams is to take np the position of managing editor of the News. Prior to his departure, Mr Williams was handed a testimonial from the proprietors of the Star, testifying to his good services while connected with this paper, and made a presentation as evidence of the personal goodwill of the proprietary.

At. the examination conducted in Stratford on Wednesday by Dr. Haigh under the auspices of the Royal College of Music, Miss Phyllis Weston obtained a complete pass in both theory and practical, for the L.A.B. Degree. Miss Weston, who is a pupil of the Convent, has on several previous occasions gained honours in musical examinations. — Post.

Mr Henry Wyatt, who at present is an inmate of the Old Men’s Home at Riverton, has reached the advanced age of 100 years. Of a. cheery disposition, the old man is still able to get about, and his only complaint is that his eyesightisgradually going; but, he says, from boyhood his • vision was always defective.

The death took place last week at Petone of Mrs. Bridget Fitzgerald, who was born in India, and had resided in New Zealand for fifty-two years. Her husband predeceased her three years ago. The late Mrs. Fitzgerald, who was highly respected’ lived the greater part of her life in the Hutt Valley. She leaves a family of one son, Mr. Dan Fritzgerald, a well-known Rugby footballer, and five daughters. The death occurred -during the weekend (says a Christchurch paper) of a well-known resident of Doyleston, Mrs. Job Osborne, at the age of 74 years. The late Mrs. Osborne came to New Zealand in 1860, with her mother and brother, Mr W, H. Jamieson, a wellknown farmer at Leeston. In 1867 she was married to Mr. Job Osborne,, who had taken up a farm at Dovleston three years previously. The golden wedding was celebrated in 1917. The family comprised one son and three daughters.