PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 21 February 1933, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The death has occurred of Mr. Jacksoil 100, str&fces Melbourne cable. °He was a leading Melbourne business man and one of the earliest members of the Victoria Racing Club. Councillors W. G. . Walkley and G. J Bavlev were appointed by the xiawera Borough Council last evening as its representatives on the South Committee of the Egmont National. Park Board. . Cabled advice has been received from Melbourne that Mr Murray duller, the New Zealand artist, lias suffered two relapses after an operation and that his condition is grave.

An interested visitor to Hawera yesterday and to-day was Mrs. G. W. Heid of Dunedin. Formerly Mis? laia Strade, Mrs. Reid is a daughter ot the late Mr. C. A Strack, who for many years was headmaster at the Hawera Main School. Mrs. Reid received her primary education at Hawera and to-day visited her old school. Mrs Reid accompanied her husband, who' wa.s a manufacturers’ representative in the New Zealand delegation to the Empire Conference at Ottawa. Mr. Alfred Black, one or the Mahoe-nui-Moknu-Awakino district pioneers, died on Sunday. He was the youngest son of the late William and Jane Black, who were married a year alter their arrival at New Plymouth by the Amelia Thompson in 1841. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Tirrell (Awakino) and Mrs. Attrill (Waitara), also his brothers William (Awakino) and Alexander, well-known residents ot New Plymouth, and his sister, Mrs. Thomas Elliot, of Waitara.