PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 31 July 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

-■ ■ m ' — In the latest hospital report the name of R. A. Warner (Patea; appears jin the list of those reported seriously I ill. ! j An old resident of Whangarei Heads | died on Wednesday at the age of 77 J years, in the person of Mr Donald Mc--1 Gregor, after a residence in the district of over fifty years. In the recent theory examinationsheld by the Associated Board, Leonard Rowe, a, .pupil of Mrs H. F. Morrieson, entered m Diy. 2 of the Grammar of Music, and gained the full possible number of marks —99. A Press Association message from Dunedin states that Mr James A. Burt, oldest son of Mr Alex. Burt, and a director of Messrs A. and T. Burt, died on Saturday, aged fifty-one years. He had been suffering f^rom heart trouble for some time. Mr Reginald Bentley, engaged in the electrical department of the Farmers' Co-op., had the misfortune to lose a thumb yesterday. He was operating a very fast running circular saw, making wooden separators for storage batteries, when his hand accidentally came in contact with the saw and his thumb was instantly taken right off. A Masonic ceremony of some interest ' took place at New Plymouth on Monday evening, when P.M. Bro. W. F. Brooking was installed as Worshipful Master of De Burge Adams Lodge, 1.C., on the fiftieth anniversary of his initiation as a member of the craft. Bro. Brooking has held office almost continuously for half a century, and for j twenty-seven years has been lodge sec- | retary. There was a representativeI gathering of Masons at the ceremony, ' including R.W. Bro. Sargent, Ha- | wera (Provincial G.M. of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand). The funeral took place at Hamilton on Friday, July 19, of Mr J. C. Cad- : man. * Deceased arrived at Port ! Chalmers from London by the Dallam ; Tower in the early seventies. After following his trade of watchmaking at Dunedin for a few years he qualified in chemistry, and took up the management of Gould and Co.'s business in Christchurch. From there he went to Messrs Sharland and Co., Auckland, \ and later conducted pharmacy businesses on his own account at Parnell, j Huntly, Kaponga, Warkworth and Frankton Junction. Deceased was a j Freemason and a Doctor of P.iychic , Science.