PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 30 January 1932, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Her. T. Keith Ewen has returned to Ilawerr. from a holiday spent hi Hawke’s Bay. Mr. J. Donald, headmaster of the Miramar South School for the past four years, was farewelled by the Wellington Eduation Board on Wednesday, upon his retirement after 40 years’ service in the teaching, profession. The chairman, Mr. T. Forsyth, traced Mr. Donald’s career, 36 years of which Tiad been with the Southland Education Board, and expressed appreciation of the work which he had done during the time he had been at Miramar South, and also of the service lie had given to education generally.

The executive oi the Associated Chambers of Commerce yesterday elected Mr. W. Machin, Christchurch, president in place of Mr. Bowden, who resigned. reports the Press Association. Flying-Officer C. A. Washer, who has been serving two years in the 11 oval Air Force, has been selected for an instructor and has passed the examinations, being posted to No. 2 Flying Training School, Digby, Lincolnshire, where he has taken up his new duties Flying-Officer Washer, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Washer, Avenue Road New Plymouth, is the youngest R.A.F. instructor.

Mr. Charles Duggan, whose death at the age of 90 is reported, had been a well-known resident of Christchurch, for over 69 years. Bom in Dudley, Warwickshire, England, in 1542, he arrived in Christchurch in 1863. He was for some years in the employ of Messrs Jones and Smith, painters and paperhangers, becoming a partner in the firm”in 1879, and later becoming owner of the business. Mr. Duggan married twice, and is survived by his v mow and eleven members of his famnv, one of whom is Mr. Louis Duggan, Stratford. *

The death occurred at Wanganui on January 23 pf Mrs. Janet A. Morgan, of Manganialm, in her 69th year, one was a member of the Cameron family, who came to New Zealand from the Highlands in the early 40 s, and settled in the Turakma district. The old homestead of “Glenmore, Ty ra ' kina Valley, still belongs to a Cameron Mrs. Morgan carried on the hospitable spirit of pioneering days, and as a hostess she was known far and wide. For the first ten years of her married life she and her husband lived near Hawera, but-the past 30 yea is have been spent at Mangamahu fche is survived by her husband and one daughter. " Mr. Thomas Murray (Mare Teretui; a well-known and highly-respected chief of the Ngatimaru tribe, died at Kirikiri on January 26. He was foi many years assessor in the Native Land Court and travelled throughout the Auckland province with He was a direct descendant of the Sunder of the tribe and.of Rautao, a noted fighting chief. His ancestois were amongst the first natives in New Zealand, who came in the canoes from Hawaiki. He held great sway among the natives from Te Aroha to Moehau, on the Colville Peninsula. He was a prominent footballer m his early days. The death occurred at New Plymouth recently of a welhknown resident, Mr Alexander Cassie,. who had been actively identified with North Taranaki for 27 years. Mr Cassie, who was 73 years of age, was born art Aberdeen and came to New Zealand . in. 1879, landing at Dunedin. He married seven years later Afiss Jane Faiqtihar son and the same year, when the •Manawatu was opened for settlement, ivent to that district, where in 1900 he was made a Justice of the Peace, in 1905 Mr Cassie took up a section at the top of the Newall Road, Warea, which is still being successfully farmed by his sons. He was a member off the Parilnaka Road Board and a director of the Warea Co-op. Dairy Company. With. Mrs Cassie he removed ten years ago to New Plymouth, where ho was a staunch adherent of 'St. Andrew’s Church. Mr Cassie is survived by his widow and a family of three ..sons, Messrs Ralph Cassie (chairman of Newall Road Dairy Company), Stuart Cassie, Newall Road, Alex Cassie, Oxford Road, Okato; and five daughters, Mesdames Douglas Smith (Otane, Hawke’s Bay), W. H. Corkill (Otakeho), R. Lancaster (Tangarakau), and Misses iC. and M. Cassie.