PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 July 1925, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Yen. Archdeacon F. G. Evans and Mrs. Evans, of New Plymouth, arrived at London by the lonic. After August they hope to tour throughout the IS or th of England into Scotland. On November 20 they will connect with the Orama at Toulon. The Rev. Samuel La wry, connexion al secretary of the Methodist Church in New Zealand since 1911, retires from that position at the 1927 conference. The Rev. M. A. Rugby Pratt, of Palmerston North, will be nominated as his successor. At the meeting of the Opunake Electric Power Board yesterday a vote of sympathy with Mr. T. H. H. Sinclair, a member of the board, in the Joss of his daughter Mona, who died on Monday last, was passed, the meeting standing In silence. A Press Association message from Palmerston North reports the death of Captain George Augustus Preece, N.Z.0., aged 80. He was a wellknown veteran of the Maori War and had been resident magistrate at \Vairoa and Oipotiki for twelve years, a magistrate at Napier and later ’at Chriistehiurch. He liad been a resident of Pahnen-'itno North since 1892. Mr J. Walter, Stratford All Black returned by the mail train on Thursday mght, and was given a very cordial reception at the railway station, where he was met and welcomed bv Mr •L W. McMillan (Mayor), Mr R\ F. rlai kness (chairman of the executive committee of the Stratford Football i i* n t ? g<?tl,er with members of the cnil). Referees’ Association and players.