PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 14 June 1926, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

In view of the opening of Parliament on Wednesday, Air H. G. Dickie, ALP., left Hawera. by the south express today, hound for the capital city.

Among the outgoing passengers by the mail train- this morning was Air Geo. Syme, junr., who is en route to the Alain l Trunk on business.

Air, L. .J. Bull, postmaster at Hawera, who has been on holiday for twelve days, resumed duty tliij# morning.

Ah- C. Af. Haggott, secretary to the Hawera Hospital Board, left town this morning for a week’s holiday at Rotorua. Airs Haggett, who accompanied' her husband, will undergo -treatment at the northern resort for rheumatism.

Motions expressing symapthy with/ the relatives of the late Miss Margaret Good and Mr D. J. G'ooclwin were passed at the monthly meeting of the Egrncnt A. and P. Association on Saturday. A three-year-old boy named Jimmy Paterson, son of Mi-, and Mrs. Ernest Paterson, of Okaiawa, had the misfortune to break a leg while Climbing a gate at his home on Wednesday last. He was brought into the Hawera Public Hospital and; is reported to be progressing satisfactorily. Mr J. G. Nicho! is reported to be making a, speedy recovery, and he is expected to leave the hospital very shortly. At a meeting of the Stratford branch of the Automobile Association, the secretary was instructed 1 to write to Mr Nichol expressing -members’ sympathy with him in his serious illness, and wishing him a speedy and permanent recovery.

A post card from Banff (Canada) has been received by Mr L. O. Hooker from Mr F. Gillanders, dated May 5, in which he says Mrs Gillanders and he are well and having a very good time. They had visited amongst other places the famous Lake Louise, where the scenery was wonderful, and in the neighbourhood could be seen seven snow-clad mountains, each higher than Egmont. The card' was faced with a photograph of the chateau on Lake Louise.

Many friends in Hawera and district will have learnt with deep regret of the death at Matamata of Mrs. David Knight, widow of the late David Knight, formerly of Hawera. Until his death eighteen months ago, she had lived in Hawera for several years, and before that time she and her husband had been settlers at Otakeho, where they took up land when the Plains were first opened for settlement. They went through all the hardships and dangers of those strenuous times and brought up a large family, who are settled, in various parts of the island. Mrs. Knight was a woman whose kindness of heart was known and appreciated by her friends. Her meinorv will long be treasured by many friend's of those earjv days.