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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 86, 27 March 1926, Page 4

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Mrs. Annie Hicks widow of the late Mr. J. T. Hicks, died yesterday mornaged 82, after 53 years, residence m the Cambridge district. Deceaseo arrived in the Dominion in 1871.

Mr D. 11. Mac Diarmid, B.A. of the Sudan United Mission, arrives in Hastings by to-night’s express, and will be the speaker at the Hastings Rotary Club on Monday.

Mr P. M. Cohr left Hastings yesterday for To Toko, in the Whakatans district, to inspect a 7000 block of timber, the great Matahina rimu forest, on behalf of a milling company.

A Christchurch telegram states that word has been received of the death in England of Mr. George Bayntun Starky. aged 68, a well-known North Canterbury pastoralist and sportsman and one of the oldest stewards of rhe Canterbury Jockey Club.

Mr. D. Mac Diarmid, who is representing the Sudan United Mission, is a graduate of the University of Otago, and a former student of Knox College. For twelve years he has devoted himself to the Sudan United Mission, doing organising work in New Zealand, in Australia, and in the Sudan. He comes now fresh from the Sudan with first hand information about the life in the Nuban villages. Mr Mac Diarmid, who is always interesting and instructive, will conduct the morning service in St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, also a lecture illustrated on Monday evening.