PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 7 October 1922, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

I The Rev. R; J. Haddon left' by mai train this week for the South Island in the interests of prohibition. H< will speak^ at all the big centres .throughout the Dominion on behalf oi his Maori people. X Mqnsignor Power left Hawera foi ; Australia last Saturday in company wit! Archbishop Redwood. During his ab sence the Re.v. Father J. ,E. Rocklifi is. in charge of the Hawera parish. 11 is expected that Monsigrior Power wil be absent about' six weeks. Mr. A: B. Macdonald, of New Plymouth, and the Melody Four, falso oi New Plymouth, winner at the receni j Wellington competitions, will assist a 1 the next concert to be given by the Hawera Male Choir at Manaia, or October 18, and at Hawera the following evening. ' V Mr. A. B. Donald, who is interested in many large financial projects in Aus- . tralasia' and' the Pacific Islands, and who with another gentleman has bought out the company controlling the Taranaki oilfields, passed through Hawera this morning on his way) to Australia. His trip is in connection witl the development of the oilfields. Mr. W. Grounds, chairman of the proposed Dairy Control Bistard, and Mr. Brash, secretary, returned to Wellington from New Plymouth this morning. There passed away on Wednesday at the Palmerston North Hospital another of New Zealand's pioneers in the person of Mrs. R. Robinson, relict of the late. Mr. John Tucker Robinson, and mother of Mrs: J. H. Read and Mr. P. T. Robinson, of Palmerston North. The deceased lady was born in Marlborough seventy-five years ago, her father. Mr. M. Aldridge, having been one of the foundation settlers of the province and one of the/bestknown of the pioneers. The late Mrs. Robinson was also widely known and esteemed in Marlborough and Wanganui, where she had,lived. Five daughters, and one son survive her.