PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 8 September 1928, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The death occurred at Wellington on Tuesday of Mr. Tudor Atkinson, a son of the'late Sir Harry Atkinson. He leaves two sons and two daughters.

Mr Samuel Turner arrived in Hawera yesterday, and is staying at the Central Hotel. To-morrow lie intends (weather permitting) to make his fiftieth ascent of Mt. Egmont. It is reported . that Mr E. G. Hammond, who is well known in .business and political circles in Wellington, has tendered .his resignation as president of the new United Political Party. It is understood that ill-health is the reason given for the step.—Press Association. Mr F. A. Simpson, of Messrs W. D. and H. O. Wills, Ltd., Hawera branch,

who has been seriously ill for some time past, has made some progress towards recovery and'has nq w gone into, a. private hospital * for further treatmen.t.

iM/r W. O'Callaghan will proceed to , Napier on Monday next to take pari;, in the Hawke’s Bay golf tournament, which opens on Tuesday next. Mr Pringle, busines sagent for Taranaki for the New Zealand Railways Department, is in town to-day making final arrangements for the Wellington excunsiiion to Dawson Falls. On Wednesday a settler well known in Hawera, who now lives in New Plymouth, joined the select band of nonagenarians of the Dominion when he celebrated his ninetieth birthday and was entertained by a number of friends. Mr Heslop, who was a Maori war veteran and had received the New Zealand Cross, came over from Hawke’s Bay many years ago. He settled on the Hastings Road, near Mawhitiwhiti, and lived there for many years, when he retired to Eltham, later going to live at New Plymouth. Mr Heslop was interested in public life and served some years on the Hawera County Council. He was in his early days noted as a wrestler and took part in many forms of athletics.