PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 14 April 1927, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. H. G. Dickie, M.P., visited Waverley to-day. Mr. It. W. Tate, S.M., was a imsseru ger by the southbound mail train through Hawera to-day. Mr. W Page left Hawera by mail train to-day to attend the Church of Christ conference at Auckland.

Samuel Kernoban, a well-known mem. her of the city’s business community, died to-day, following a brief, illness, states a Press Association from Wanganui.

Advice lias been received of the death at Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England, of' Mr Ernest Pridham, M.A., late rector of the New Plymouth High School, and father of Mr E. P. Pridham, dental surgeon of Wanganui.

Captain A. E. Gain, master of the ship Limerick, who has been m illhealth for some time, was found dead in bis bed in the cabin, .states a Sydney Press Association cablegram. He was well known in New Zealand, and bad been in the service of the Union Company for 24 years.

Mr A. El. Cowper, a well-known member of one of the earliest families in Wanganui, died yesterday. He was a prominent member of the Wanganui Collegiate School Old Boys’. Association, in which he had held the olfice of president and secretary, and was dental officer to the school. The funeral will be held on Friday, but at the wish of Mrs. Cowper, the Old Boys’ annual Easter festivities will not be curtailed. —Press Assn.

Mr Angus Wilson, second son of Mr and Mrs Gilbert Wilson, of St. Helier’s, Auckland, and once of Duthie Road, Kaponga, is publicity director and press officer for the advertising convention and exhibition organised bv the Advertising Association which ‘is to be held at Olympia in July. This exhibition will be the largest of its kind ever held .in London Mr Wilson began his journalistic training on the “New Zealand Herald,” and was educated chiefly at the Grammar School, Auckland. He is a grand-nephew of the late Mr . Edward Wilson, who was the first editor and part proprietor of the “Melbourne Argus” and “Australasian.” published under the names of Wilson and McKinnon. At the conclusion of the approaching convention Mr Wilson hopes to take a holiday trip to New Zealand to see liis people.