PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 28 July 1925, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Air E,. H. Andrews and Air J. A. Flesher will be candidates for Reform nomination for the Christchurch North seat.

Air C. H. Agar, a resident of Lyttelton for forty years, has announced that he will contest the Lyttelton electorate in the Reform interest at the general election.

Alessrs S. G. Smith and J. R. Corrigan, Al.’sP., were passengers by the mail train this morning, on their return to Parliament.

Air. J. B. Alurdoch, chairman of the Hawera County Council, lert for Wellington this morning, on a short Dip 011 council, business.

While walking on Saturday evening, Mrs. Fletcher Dixon, mother of Mrs. FI. F. Hemingway, of Pateu, slipped and fractured her night wrist and injured Iter hip, necessitating her removal to the hospital.

Air L. Tait left Hawera this morning after a short holiday for Masterton, where lie will take up a position on the Farmers’ Co-op. Until he left Hawera for Napier some six months ago Mr Tait was connected with the. local Fire Brigade. At the annual meeting of the Stratford Dairy Company on Monday ' the chairman (Mr Lehmann) referred to the loss the company had sustained through the death of its late chairman (Mr F. Hanford). The meeting stood in silence for a brief period as a m*rk of sympathy. Alt lvai IwL on- -Saturday last- Mrs. A- W. Gower, relict of the late Mr. George Gower, of Whenuakuni, passed away at- the age of 80 yea-re. She had for many years been a resident of the Pait-ea- diiisfcnc-fc ami was much esteemedby all. those with whom she came in contact. For -some time her health had been failing, and during the last few months she had, been confined to her bed.

Our Patea correspondent advises that Mr E. J. Stanford, of that town, left bv the mail train this morning to join the s.s. lonia at Wellington, en route for England. It is some forty-four years age, since Mr Stanford left the Old Country, and this is the first occasion on which lie has set out to visit the relations and friends of his youth. A iarge number of friends were at the station to hid him bon voyage.