LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Hawera Star, Volume L, 26 March 1931, Page 9

LOCAL AND PERSONAL

For unlawfully slaughtering lambs for consumption within the New Plymouth abattoir district, Percy Wood, farmer, of Omata, was fined £2, with 12s costs in the New Plymouth Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Mr. John Bonnell, aged 74, an old resident .of the town, was found dead at tlie back -door of his residence, vVaihi Road. Hawera, about 9 o’clock this morning. An inquest will probably, 30 held.

Forty delegates of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows attended! the annual Taranaki conference at Eiltham today, being officially welcomed by the Mayor (Air. J. J. Bridger). A special thanksgiving service will be held in St. Jolin’s Presbyterian Church, Hawera., at 7.30 this evening, when the Rev. R. E„ Evans will take for his subject “The debt of gratitude which we owe to God.” AU interested are invited.

Airs Jean Banks Gimbemat, aged 25, Henry Perliam Clinton-Hope, aged 22, Earl of Lincoln, son and heir of tlie Duke of Newcastle, were married in New York on Monday night at the home of the bride, who is the daughter of Air and Airs David Banks, states a. Press Association cable. She and her first husband, Jules, were divorced in February at Reno.

A man with a message not only for Ireland but for New .Zealand is “A. E.” (George AV. Russell), the Irish poet, mystic and leader in farm-reform and co-operation. According to .some observers, lie has been the chief agent in bringing Irish agriculture and dairying, from a state of extreme! backwardness to a leading position in the world. A lecture on Russell’s life and message will be given by Air J. A. Brailsford. under the auspices' of the W.E.A., at the Borough Chambers, Hawera, on Friday evening at S o'clock. An interesting combination is that of the dreamy"-mystic with the practical and successful organiser of better pig-rear- : mr. better dairving, co-operative rural banking and village culture. •