PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 30 August 1929, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Tlie death is announced by Press Association message from Wellington of Mr. H. Harrington, at the age of 78. He arrived in ’ Christchurch in 1852 with his parents in tlie ship Samarang, and joined the telegraph service. He became assistant superintendent in Christchurch, and then superintendent in Napier and later in Wellington. When he retired from the service he was an inspector, but was recalled to act as censor in Wellington for the greater part of the war. Since then he has been living in retirement. The death of the Rev. John Burgess, one of the most prominent ministers of the Presbyterian church in Australia, aged 74, is announced by Australian Press Association message from Sydn cv.

Mr. Theodore Fink, 'chairman of directors of the “Herald” and “Weekly Times,” Melbourne, lias been elected chairman of the Australian sec. tion of tie Empire Press Union, states an Australian Press Association message 'from 'Sydney. The death occurred yesterday of Mr H. T. Little, .aged 61, of Hui Hui, North Canterbury, one of the most notable figures- in the sheep breeding industry of the Dominion (says a Press Association message from Christchurch). The Corriedale breed was originated and developed by Mr Little’s father, who started out 50 years ago to_ produce the breed, and for the last 25 years had been carried on by the son at Hui Hui, which lie made famous as tlie nursery of the Corriedale breed.