PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 1 November 1933, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr R. L. Bennett, son of Mr A. G. Bennett, of Manaia, Obtained secondclass passes in each of the following L.L.B. subjects at the terms examination at Otago University: Company law and bankruptcy, evidence, international law, conflict of laws, practice and procedure. The funeral of the late Mr David Green, of Okaiawa, was held yesterday at the Okaiawa cemetery. There was a. large gathering of relatives and friends from all over Taranaki. The Rev. H. C'ottom, of Manaia, held a service at fill® house and officiated at the graveside, where the bearers were Messrs 11. and T. Lloyd, B. Roberts; J. Short, R. Harris and T. Rae. -There were many wyeaiths sent as tokens of respect to the memory of a pioneer settler. The death, has occurred of Captain Ernest Delaney, a well-known resident of Betone, says a Wellington Press Association message. He resigned from the service of the Llutt Valley Electric Power Board six months ago because of ill-health. Ha seivod m ihcWest African campaign, and just after the Boer War mined the Canadian cavalry and was in the second V) at tie of Ypres with the cavalry. Captain Delaney was next transferred to the Canadian tank corps, after which he was appointed adjutant at the cavalry training barracks at Folkestone. _ In New Zealand he had been actively associated with the Legion of Frontiersmen.

Constable Shields, who died from injuries received last Wednesday, when a car in which he was riding collided with the Rotorua express, was buried on Sunday at the O’Neill’s' Point Cemetery, Bayswater, Auckland. A large number of the police force attended the funeral. The Rev. E. S. Emmitt (late of Hawera Methodist Church) and the Rev. Hailey Trill, of Takapuna, officiated at the graveside. The Rev. Mr Emmitt, in addressing the assemblage, said the ceremony was far more than a conventional tribute. It was an expression of deep regard and affection. “In conversation with many who knew him they qll testified that Constable Shields was ii white man all through,” said Mr Fiinmitt. . . .He was a man strictly honourable in all bis police duties and he had a humane touch.