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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 87, 29 March 1926, Page 4

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Mr and Miss Mac Niven have returned to Hastings after a holiday spent in Gisborne. Mr. and Mrs. J. McNab, accompanied by their daughter Muriel, leave Hastings to-morrow for Sydney en route to’ England. The death occurred in Wellington on Friday evening of Mr John Baillie, the well known art cohnoiseur, and brother of Mr Herbert Bailie, chief libration of the Wellington Free Public Libraries. Mr and Mrs Frank Futon, Otanc, were passengers to Wellington by the Napier express on Friday. They w r ent to Wellington to say good-bye to Mrs Guy .Stratton (Mr Fulton’s sister), who leaving for England next week. Air. W. C. Alorris, agricultural instructor, who has been appointed head master at the Waihi District School, left Hastings this afternoon, by rail, with his wife and family, for the* north to take up his new duties. The Postmaster-General, the Hon. Sir James Parr, has announced the appointment of Air. A. Gibbs to the position of Chief Telegraph Engineer, which recently became vacant owing to the retirement on superannuation of Air. E. A. Shrimpton. The late Air. Hugh AlcOonnell, who died in Wellington on Friday at the age of 55 .years, was one of the early pioneers in the use of the sheep-shear-ing machine in New Tie started shearing with machines at Otahaike and Station Peak stations near Oamaru in 1890, and was amongst the earliest to shear 200 merino sheep per day. This was considered a big tally in those days. He was later chosen to give a shearing demonstration m England, France, Germany, U.S.A., and several other sheep-raising countries. Friday, at the Hawke’s Bay Education office, Napier, Air. Frank Melhuish, in the absence of fhe secretary, presented Air. W. E. Morris (who is leaving Hawke’s Bay to take over the headmastership of the Waihi School) with a handsome oak after-noon-tea waggon. Speaking on behalf of the staff. Mr. Melhuish said that the gift was meant for both Air. Morris and hi s wife and it was intended to convey, in quite;an inadequate degree, the high regard entertained by •the Board’s staff for the recipient and Mrs. Morris. Aly. Alorris, in tnanxing the staff for their kind expressions, as well as fos their useful gift, said he would never forget the good relations that had always existed between himself and the Board’s executive and he desired to acknowledge his indebtedness to them for the assistance they had always extended to him.