PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 16 December 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr Florence McCarthy; o^ne of the oldest jburnaKs'ts in),the Domiriion, has resigned the positioix of editor of the Grey Riyer ;^crsm i :, ;he has held since : lSßt^ : saiys ; " a!! P^ress »►Association message: froni .Gfeyindnth; Mr McCaHhy:- whb'is 80 iyears of age, has been engaged in.: journalism since he was. twenty. . : ~ ;Mr John Walker,: formerly a telegraph employee, who retired four years ago on account ■of 111-health; died s on JMonday : a. jQhristchurch telegram). JDe^eas«d waf the founder and the first editor©f "The'Katiik), the official organ of i>he Telegraph Associaiibn. V.. v 'r,\., ',:■■,■'.:.;. ■. ./■ -^>:. A .London cablegram announces the deasi oJE^Mt, Martin John Sutton) of Reading. Mr Siitton was a Fellow of the Linnaoiti Society^ a member of the National A^ricuTtural Examination Board, and Governor of the , Royal Agricultural Society of England, of the Qouiicil of wMch he was.amember for 26 years. He published several ..imr. portant wbrlts on agnculture, arid hi? effoi-ts on behalf of/"the. man oh , the land" and the science vpf agriculture caused him to receive e^yeral foreign decorations. .■■ t ■ ; <;'X4:i s:■■'.;■;■ \'U->'■<■:£-..