PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 4 November 1924, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The death occurred at the Palmer- j ston North Hospital on Friday morn- ' ing of Mr, Francis Williamson, an old resident of. Levin. The deceased gentleman, who had been undergoing , treatment in the hospital for the past six weeks, leaves a wife and six children to mourn their loss, the latter including Mr Nelson Williamson, son-in-law of Mr. A. Pickering, of Waldegrave Street, Palmerston North. Mr. J. L. Bruce, superintendent of experimental farms under the Department of Agriculture, has retired from the Government service. He entered the department in 1891. The death lias occurred at Vancouver of Mr. Norman Lee, formerly of Masterton. Deceased had resided in British Columbia for about 25 years. When living in Masterton*. he was a keen footballer, having played for the Pirates and Albion Clubs. He was captain of the Vancouver Fire Brigade for several years, and later went farming in Alberta. He is a brother of Mr. T. Lee, of Masterton, and leaves a widow and two children. . The death took place at Stegi, Swaziland, South Africa, in his 47th year, of Mr. Edwin John Harris, the second son of the late Mr. Thomas Harris, one of the very early settlers in the llaiigitikei district, and Mrs. C. B. Harris, of Palmerston North. Mr. Harris was a New Zealander, and in his younger days was well known for his prowess in various athletics. While serving in the South African -war, first with the N.Z.R-.R., and afterwards with the Transvaal Constabulary, Steinacher’s Horse, and the S.A. Frontier Guard, be was made King’s Sergeant for special services in the capture of important dispatches, gaining the Queen’s and King’s medals and seven bars. In the Great War be * served as captain, in German SouthWest and East Africa and in France, ■ eventually obtaining his majority. He 1 also served in the Matabele war of 1895-6, and the Zulu rebellion of 1907. : For some years he had been farming . very successfully at Stegi. He was * elected a member of the Advisory ConnI oil for Swaziland when -it was first 1 formed. Mr. Harris (says the Johan- * nesbnrg Star) was held in great respect > bv all who knew him, as lie was a man s of the highest integrity, with a keen - sense of honour and justice.