PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 November 1924, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

A Diiiietlin telegram announces the ooatli of Isaac Ivirker Mclntyre, a retired Presbyterian Minister ,aged 77. The friends of Mr W. Glasgow, president. of St. John’s Rowling Club, will regiet to hear of his serious indisposition. the result of a stroke, yesterday.—Chronicle.

Miss Maida Hooker, who with Miss Bertha Carr, the Russian mezzosoprano, is fulfilling a number of public engagements in Auckland, will give a recital at New Plymouth on December 9.

Miss M. Dyer, supervisor of home science work for the Department of Education, has been on an official visit to Hawera during the last few days, and has been inspecting the work done at the Hawera Technical High School. This is her first visit to Hawera. Miss Dyer left for Wangamti by-to-day s mail train. Mr J. Thomson, Government land purchasing officer, who has been in Hawera to complete the Crown purchases of native lands on 1 behalf of Rest Coast lessees, left bv to-day’s mail train on his way to the Taupo district. In conversation with a Star representative, Mr. Thomson said there uere no new applications to purchase tor some time, an indication of the fact that the district is still suffering from the effect of the difficult times of the last two years. There passed away on November 16 at Wellington a very old identity of this district in the person of Mrs Margaret Morrison, at the age of 80 years. She was the mother of Mr H. N. Morrison, Mrs G. A. Mills, Mrs C. E. Stiehbury and Mrs H. L. Mitchell (Wellington), Mrs H. A. Williams (Hastings), Mr J. C. Morrison .(London), Mrs C. T. Nicholas (Hastings Road, Mangatofii), and the late Major W. C. Morrison; also twenty-four grandchildren, and four great-girandchildren, with whom much sympathy is left. The late Mrs Morrison was farming in the Okaiawa and Haivera districts "for a number of years. She was loved by all who knew her for her kind and loving disposition.