PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 February 1929, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

V London Press message states thatMr Bert Hinkier has severed hus connection with the Avro Company .and 'has accepted the chief test pllatship with the Bristol Company. •Mr F. C. Spratt, of Wellington, who will act for the Hawera Electric Company in the arbitration case with the South Taranaki Power Board, arrived in Hawera last evening. Miss Freda Hewitt, who has been attending the Canterbury University, has received advice that she has passed th e final section of her B.A. degree. Miss Hewitt has also secured the Diploma of Education. a. Brisbane message says that Sir W. E. Jtsush, 'Auckland city engineer, nas been appointed! engineer .to the water suppy and sewerage department of the Greater Brisbane Council. General Sir John Maxwell has died at Capetown of pneumonia. He commanded the Britisn forces in Egypt fer the first two years ot the Great War, and was commander-in-chief in _ .Ireland 1 during the troublous days of 1916. Britisn official wireless. Mr M. Myers, Iv.C., of Wellington, arrived in Hawera last evening and is a guest at the Central Hotel. Mr L. O. Hooker returned to Hawera last night from Wellington, where he spent a few days bn Winter Show business. Mr J. S. Barton, S.M., of Wellington, is expected in Hawera this evening. Mr Barton will officiate in the arbitra- , lion proceedings between the South' Taranaki Power Board and the Hawera County Electric Company during next week. A pioneer .settler of Taranaki pasaad away at Oka.to on Tuesday in the person of Mr John Pearce. His parentis, the late Mr and Mas James Pearce, came from England in the Amdlia Thompson, .arriving at New Plymouth on September 3, 1841, and he was bom on June 18, 1846. With the women and other children Mr Pearce was taken to Nelson when the Maori '.trouble broke out. but he returned at the age of 14 and drove his father’s bullock team for military purposes. Later Mr Pearce took over his father’s farm at Tataraimaka, Mr Pearce shared in the pibl'ic life of.the community by serving on road boards and dairy factory directorates, and he took an active interest in the Methodist and Anglican Churches of recent years and! earlier when the Rev. J. Whiteley and the Rev. R. H. Brown visited the coast, and they had many adventures together. Mrs Pearce is still ‘living and there are two daughters and a son (Mrs E. V . Guy. of Fell ding. Miss H. Pearee of Okato .and Mr B. Pearce of New Plymouth!'. Mrs R. Foreman (Hawera.) and Me s dames W. Rowe and \\. And raw’s (New Plymouth) are sisters ol the late Mr Pearce.