The Municipal Baths will be closed after April 14. At the Baths today a silver medal donated by Percy Stevens, a former 'pupil of the Hawera Public School, wa& competed, for by boys in the fifth and lower standards of the public school. The distances were 25yds, 50yds, and- 75yds.' W. Stevens, a younger brother of the donor, won the 25yds and 50yds, and it was considered unnecessary to hold the third. The only other competitors were Clouitt and Deem, the former being second in each event swum. Mr George McLean's many friends in j this district will read with regret and | sympathy the announcement of the death of his mother. Despite the fact that she was in her hundredth year, Mm McLea.ni was up to her death, in possession of all her faculties and within, a fortarigte of her demise, was dressed and carried downstaixs. She survived her husband by 50 years, her only daughter died box months ago, and three of her sons have been dead some years. Only two sons are living, Mr George McLean, of Bawera, and Mr S. McLean ,of London. Five of th© third generation -are living and only one of the 4th, the infant daughter of Mr Ronald Mclean, oi the Argentine. Mrs McLean went as a bride to Coole House 77 years ago, and rarely ever had a day's iMmes6'. For Children s Hacking Cough at Night, Wood's Great Peppermint Cut©, Is 6d and 2s 6d per bottle.— Advt.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9067, 12 April 1906, Page 7
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247Page 7 Advertisements Column 2 Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9067, 12 April 1906, Page 7
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