PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 6 October 1926, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr I j. O. Hooker returned last- evening from a short business trip to Wellington.

Dr. Elizabeth Gunn, schools medical inspection officer in the TaranakiWanganui district, was in Hawera yesterday. She stayed- overnight at the Egmoivt Hotel -and left this morning for New Plymouth. Dr. Gunn was preceded by N.urse Ffi-sher, with whom she is associated, who stayed at the White Hart- Hotel and went to New Plymouth yesterday. " i.

There passed away at his residence, 64 Wilson street, yesterday, one of Wanganui’s best known residents, in the person of Mi - Charles James McCarthy (says the Wanganui Chronicle). Mr McCarthy was born at Pigeon Bay, Akaroa, in 1860. At the age of 1-5 he joined the Telegraph Department at Charleston, on- the West Coast. He also served with the department in Westport- and Oamaru, hut in, 1882 he linked up with the railway at Invercargill. He continued in the-service, eventually becoming stationmaster at Abbotsford, near Dunedin, hut he left in 1890 and took over the Royal Hotel in Wellington. Two years later he again moved north, coming to Wanganui, and in this town he took over the Rutland Hotel. staying here for three years. For 12 months the late Mr McCarthy was in charge of the Britannia Hotel in Wellington, but in 1896 he was once more in Wanganui, and took over McCarthy’s Hotel. His retirement from hotel proprietorship was in 1928. Air McCarthy leaves a widow and four sons, Charles. Esmonde and Leslie, of Wanganui, and Bernard, of Sydney. Mr B. McCarthy, -o-f Hawera. is a brother of the- deceased gentleman.