PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera Star, Volume L, 6 February 1931, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

A motion of condolence was passed with the relatives of the late Mr Thos. Geary at yesterday’s meeting of the South. Taranaki Farmers’ Union executive and members stood in silence out of respect to his memory. The death is announced from Paris of Vice-Admiral Gauchet, who commanded a squadron at the Dardanelles which participated in the landing in April, 1915. The following bulletin was issued at Kensington Palace on Wednesday evening: “Apart from weakness, which is to be expected at this stage of the illness, the condition of Princess Beatrice continues satisfactory.’’ Mrs .T. Y\ r . Snowdon, of Inaha, has received word that her brother, Mr J. Baxter, who was manager of the 'New Zealand Clothing Factory in Hastings, is safe and unhurt, as well as a nephew' v’lio lived in that town. Professor P. Gf. Hornell, the Swedish engineer and expert on hydro-electric installations, who visited the Dominion last year and reported on the Arapuni pov r er station, is expected to return to New Zealand about October in connection with a gold-mining project in Central Otago. An old and respected colonist, Mr. William Frederick Beimer, who had lived at Otakeho for ten years, died .suddenly in Hawera yesterday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Simpson in Victoria Street, following a heart seizure. Mr. Reimer, who was the father of Mrs. C. Davies, Otakeho. had reached the age of 71 years and resided many years at New Lynn, Auckland. Much sympathy will be felt with his relations in their sorrow. The funeral will leave St. Mary’s Church, Hawera, to-morrow at 1 p.ni. At the meeting of the Hawera Main School Committee last evening a motion of sympathy wat passed to Mr H. W. Insull, secretary of the Taranaki Education Board, in the loss of his only daughter at Hawke’s Bay.