PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 3 January 1924, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

v Prior to leaving Wyndham (Southland) for Hawera, Mr AlexanderLatham was presented with a cheque-,. as a token of goodwill and esteem, from.. Messrs Henderson and Co., Ltd. Mr Cecil Prime, of Napier (who has.; been secretary of the Hawke's Bay Employers' Association for the past five*: years), has been appointed secretary of the Canterbury Employers' Association, in succession to the late Mr Frank. Cooper. Constable F. H. Townsend and family left Eltham on Tuesday for Wellington on their way to Dunedin, where* they will spend a month's holiday.: Constable O'Donnohue, of Kaponga,. will relieve Constable Townsend during: his absence. Mrs. Clarke has disposed of her in-»-terest in th© Eltham Hotel, EJtham,. to Mr. J. J. Patterson, formerly of-C Maunganui, North Auckkmd, and willmake her home in Palmerston Northe for some time to come. Mr. Patterson entered into possession of the hotel*** on Tuesday. | Mr. T. G. Grubb, local secretary for 1 the Trinity College of Music, has been? advised that Miss Evelyn B. Moon*.. L.T.C.L., pupil of the Convent, Stratford, is approved for the Fellowship Diploma. The award is very creditableto both teacher and pupil, especailly when it is remembered that there arevery few in New Zealand. Mr E. A. Pacey, of Hawera, receiv--j ed word last night of the death of his* • sister, Mrs C. H. Poole, wife of the ex-M.P., "Auckland. Mrs Poole, with.-.. ' her husband, only returned from.i' America, after an extended tour, on.- '' Friday last. She was taken suddenly "' ill and operated on yesterday, but did * not regain consciousness, and passed* ■ away during the afternoon. Mr Paoey L and his son go to Auckland this evenly ing--1 The many friends of Mr John.. • Kernohan will .regret to learn of his - & death, which occurred suddenly at hi» " residence yesterday afternoon (says the i Chronicle). The late Mr Kernohan.. t for many years conducted: the- well-1 1 known grocery business that bears his , name. From a small beginning he.: i had. by energy and enterprise, suc-r i ceeded in building up a large and sue- ,- cessful establishment. Few business I men of Wanganui were better known., along the coast. He- leaves- a«,grown*up family of two sonsiand a daughter. > There was laid to rest in the old cemetery at Wanganui yesterday after--noon the body of one- of the fasfcdiminishing band of old settlers of* I Wanganui in the person of Mrs Robert Tucker, who passed away on DecemberI 31. The deceased lady, who was in her • 84th year, was the widow of the lateMr Robert Tucker, fbr over 43 years--j intimately associated* with the home-* mission work of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church. / j The death occurred recently at herson's place, Wanganui j of a well--known resident in the person of Mrsl ' Anna Catherine Hunger at J the ageiof 86. Deceased came- to».* New Zea- > land with her husband in the sailing 1 ship Alsina in 1875. She was a woman ; of kindly disposition, being esteemed t by a large circle of friends in the Nor- . manby district, where she resided for [46 years. She is survived'by a son, . Mr. C. Hunger, of Wanganui,' and a . daughter, Mrs. J. Christoffei; senr., of > New Plymouth, as well as grands' children and several greategrand- , children. ; On December 31 —the last day of 1923 ' —Mr H. I. Bennett, Superintendent of - Telegraphs, Christchurch, retired from. - the Post and Telegraph Department after forty years' continuous service.. i Starting as a messenger boy in the; Masterton Post Office in 1883, Mr Benj nett.has passed through all the grades., ■ on the telegraph side cf the Department, finishing with the high and im— . portant rank of Superintendent of { Telegraphs! As he is now only 54 years of age, Mr Bennett is one of the.youngest officers —probably the youngest officer —who, on the completion of z forty years' service, has decided to re— * . tire, and who has placed his resignation in the hands of the secretary of the Department, Mr A. Markman. Im accepting Mr Bennett's resignation, Mr j Markman wrote expressing the Department's high appreciation of Mr Benj nett's services. ! Mr William Bell, for several years a. veteran at the Veterans' Home, died: at the Auckland Hospital on Fridaymorning, at the age of 81 years. Mr Bell was born at Burnley, Lancashire, England, ih 1842. He enlisted in the 2nd Dragoon Guards: in 1858, and was: drafted to India in 1859. In 1861 hewas transferred to the 21st Hussars, in. which regiment he obtained the rank of corporal. After some years of service in India h© was transferred toEngland, where he purchased his discharge. He came to New Zealand in 18/7, and joined the Mounted Police, with which force he served until 1892, when he gained the Long Service and good conduct medals. From 1892 until admission to the A Teterans' Home, he was engaged in farm and gardening; work in various parts of New Zealand. He was admitted to the home in 1920, where he has resided ever since He was married in 1883 to Miss Alice lynion, of AVanganui. He is survived by one son, Mt AVilliam Percy Clifford Bell, who resides at Palmerston North