PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 19 October 1925, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Rev. R. Haddon left for Auckland to-day, in furtherance of his campaign on behalf of the New Zealand Alliance. He reports that he has had a very successful tour. •

Mr. McKenzie, a New Zealand Public Works engineer, has completed a most exhaustive investigation, of road construction and tramway and motor control regulations (says a London cable message). He has now gone to France and Italy on a similar mission, and he sails homeward from Naples.

Another of the fast diminishing band of early colonists passed to her rest in the person of Mrs. F. S. Canning, whose death occurred yesterday at- the residence of her daughter, Mrs* Walter Syme, of Hawera, at the age of eightyfour years. With her husband the late Mr. F. S. Canning, she lived many years ago at Gore, and came to Taranaki about 1880. They lived at Normanby and Kaponga, where Mr. Canning was in business, and also at New Plymouth. After several years spent in Hawera they moved to Whakatane, where Mr. Canning was in business for some time •with one of his sons. Later they moved to Auckland, where four years ago Mr. Canning died. Mrs. Canning came to Hawera and had lived for two years with her 'a daughter. She enjoyed good health' P until about a month since, when she ' 3 became ill, but no serious symptoms developed until Saturday, and she passed quietly away yesterday. The family numbers six daughters—Mrs. McClure (Ohura), Mrs. Harwood ' (Palmerston North), Mrs. Gruar (Hamilton), Mrs. Baker (Gore), Mrs. W. Syme (Hawera), Mrs. Treeby (Invercargill)— aixd four sons, Messrs l , William (Napier), Frank (Dunedin), Robert (Auckland), and Alfred (Whakatane). With them all deep sympathy will be felt by many friends..