PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 April 1925, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

A Sydney cablegram announces the death of Mr G. H. Merrett, an active member of sporting organisations. He was manager of the last Australian team for the Olympic games. ' A. London.' cable, message reports the death, of Aidmirra.l Sir Michael Cu'lneSeymour, Who lias beep Second Sda Lord and Chief of the Naval Personnel since. 1924. He was born in. 1867. He served ini the Battle of Jidda ml in 1916, and sauce then has occupied' many important commands. A. Rotorua. Piwg ALssocia.tio.n message reports the death, of Mr. Oswald Waiter Exia.ll, lately editor of Hie Ro.to.ma Chronicle. He .has been a journalist in New Zealand for fifty years. He was sixty-nine years of age. p . Mr A. W. \S. Hewitt, formerly postmaster at Hawera, has been a visitor to Hawera the last, few days, and. has been Yoking up old friends. Accompanied bv Mrs Hewitt and family, he left to-day for hi s home on the Main Trunk line near Te Kuiti. Captain J. G. C. Wales, % of the Wanganui defence office, will leave for India on August 1, by which date the British officers from India, will haVe arrived in New Zealand. He will remain in India for ttVo years, and will then, return to the Dominion. Prior to the way Captain Wales was farming near HnWera and in the Wairarapa. He left with the Main Body, and in October, 1919, became a member of the permanent staff in New Zealand.

Another of the band of pioneers who came in the early days *to the Dominion passed to his,rest at Auckland on Saturday, in the person of Mr ,T. R. Linkhorn. lather ofMr W. j. Linkhorn, Hawera. He had attained the ripe age of 87 years and had had a very chequered career. Left ah orphan as a child, he was at the famous Blue Coats School near 'London for' som e years, and then embarked on a seafaring life. The Ballarat gold rush attracted him, and he settled down there and was successful in his venture. As a youngster he remembers seeing the first Melbourne Cup run, and that a,, piebald horse was the winner. After some years in Tasmania, he was once more on the quest of •jtcJUI, and was one of the first to get to Gabriel’s Gully. He then went to the' West Coast and had the job there of making the first baker’s oven. Once more be moved, and this tme to Waihi when the rush took place. He was not successful there, and after a few years at Nelson settled in Auckland, and for the past twenty-five years had lived a retired lile at Mt. Eden, ft, was there be died last Saturday. He is survived bv his widow, seven buys and three girls, and had twentytwo grandchildren.