PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 6 September 1929, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Air Charles Palariet, in the British diplomatic service, has been appointed British Minister at Bucharest in succession to Sir Robert Grey, reports the British Official Wireless. Air V. Vorniman, paymaster in the State Treasury, died suddenly yesterday. He was a prominent sportsman and manager of the Australian Olympic team in 1912, reports the Australian Press Association from Sydney. At a. farewell gathering in Auckland yesterday to Air A. F. Neil son, held t>y the New Zeatand Dairy Factory .Managers’ Association for tuie province, he was .presented with a case of pipes and cigarette case as a mark of appreciation. The Lieut-.-Governor, Sir Hubert Alurray, was kicked in the rib s by bithorse- and his condition is. serious-, states a. message from Port Moresby. The- death of Mr E. M. Blake, a wellknown architect and an old resident ol Wellington, at the age of (55 years, is reported from Wellington. The friends of Air Felix A oitrekov.skv, who was for 30 years a resident of I-lawera, will regret to hear of his death, which occurred at his son’s residence, Norfolk Road, last week. The kite Air Voitrekovsky had been ill for some time, and his end was not unexpected. His Alajesty’s Trade Commissioner in New Zealand-, Mr L-. A. Paisli, 0.8. EL, expects to arrive in Wellington by the Aialieno- from Sydney on. September 10, according to cable advice. Air Paish, who lias been qn the headquarters staff of the Department of Overseas Trade in London, was recently appointed to succeed Mr 1,. B. Beale in New Zealand.

Votes were carried at the monthly meeting of the Women’s - Division of the Farmers’ Union yesterday expressing sympathy with the. relatives of the late Mr Robert. Lambic,- Mr Samuel Turner and Mr J. F. Stevenson, and letters of condolence will be sent bv the hon. secretary.

The death occurred on Wednesday of 'Captain "P. Mclntyre, in Huntcrville. The late Captain Mclntyre had been until a few months ago pilot to the Wanganui Har. hour 'Board, and at a recent meeting of the board, appreciation of his long and faithful services of nineteen years were placed on record, and he was granted six months’ leave of absence before his resignation was to take .place. The late captain was born on the Isle of Islay, Kintyre, Argyllshire, Scotland, and came to New Zealand as a young man. He was engaged for many years trading round the coast in the Manaroa and the Stormbird before commencing duties with the Harbour Board in 1911. The death of Mrs James Delany, ;senr., who died at Tabaka in lier 88th year recently, removes one of Nelson’s earliest settlers. The deceased, who was tn-e eldest daughter of the late Mr and. Mrs Jolui Haycock, was born at Nelson on Ap>il 26, 1842, less- than three months after the arrival of the first immigrant ship at Nelson. She claimed to- be the first white baby horn in Nelson, a distinction of which she was very proud. During her later years the deceased lived with her daughter, Mrs W. Herrick, at Tabaka. Her late husband, who died 26 years, ago, was al,so one of the earliest settlers in the new colony, being born at Port Underwood in 1842. The early married life of Mr and Mrs Delany was spent in Marlborough, and later they moved to Motueka, where Mr Delany established the first butchery business in the district.

A pioneer settler of the Dominion, Mrs Alice Wickham, who died at Auckland some days ago at the age of 81 years, was for a. number of years a resident with her husband at Xgaere. Three of her sons resided in the- same district. She, came with her parents to New Zealand a.s a child of five, and lived until her marriage at Warkworth (North Auckland), when she settled near Auckland. Later she and her husband came to South Taranaki, but after being some years here they retired to Auckland, where Mr Wickham died nine years ago. Mrs Wickham was held in high esteem by a large circle of friends, and at the funeral- in Auckland there was a large gathering to show their respect to her. The sons who live in Taranaki are Messrs L. Wickham (Cardiff), W. Wickham (Ngaere), and H. R. Wickham (Huiroa).