PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 3 June 1924, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Sir James Wilson, who was on Wednesday re-elected chairman of the Manawatu County Council, has held that office since 1898. He was elected a member of the council two years previously.

I The Moa Dairy Company, Inglewood, came into prominence at the AVaikato Show m the butter exhibits. In class 3 Moa was third, equal with Hikirangi, with-95 points out of 56 entries; second in class 7, with 94§ points, out of 45 % entries; and second in class 16

! At a social gathering of the Wellington Scottish Society and Pipe Band a presentation was made on behalf of the juvenile dancers associated with the society to Pipe-Sergeant Allan Kirkpatnck, formerly of the Eltham Post Office staff, as a token of their esteem on t2ie occasion of his approaching marriage.

In consequence of his impaired health the Right Rev. Monsignor Mahoney, of Onehunga, has resigned office as one of the two Vicars-General of the Auckland diocese. Bishop Cleary has appointed in his stead Monsignor Cahill, of Parnell, who is now absent on a trip to Europe. Until his return the VeryRev. W. J. Murphy, of the Good Shepherd Parish, Dominion road, Auckland will be an acting Vicar-General. Father Murphy has also been appointed Dean of Waitemata; Father Brennan, Dean of Waikato; and Father Holbrook Archdeacon.

The sudden death of Mr H. M. Somer, secretary of the Royal Agrit cultural Society of New South Wales is announced by a Press Association , message from Sydney. Mr Somer was i for some time agricultural editor of the Sydney Mail, and edited the "On the Land column of the Sydney Morning Herald. The cause of 'death was heart failure.

There passed away during last week at Wanganui an old Crimean and Indian war veteran, who, though living here for many years, was known only to half a dozen folk. His name was Thomas Arthur Labkar, and he was 86 • years of age. He joined the English army as a lad, and was drafted to Ireland, thence to the Crimea (1854-56), and afterwards to India (1857-62) On returning to England after the mutiny he was married and went back to India, where his wife and only child died, After serving in the army for thirty years he took his discharge, and wandered about, eventually finding his way to New Zealand after having lived for many years in Australia. He was employed in Wanganui as gardener by ( the late Mr J. L. Stevenson. TW 1"' DVs?- ¥ Sfe' >admaster of the Terrace School Wellington, has been appointed by the Public Service Commissioner inspector of /school*, with headquarters at Auckland. Trained in the Napier Mam School for eleven years Mr. Leslie was an assistant master there. For over five" years he occupied the position of headmaster of the Renj wicktown (Blenheim) School. In 1904 j Mr. Leslie was appointed first assistant or the Gisborne District Hieh School, and eight years later transferred TW s\ m£« r jx^™ in the Masterton ■. district High School, occupying at the same time the position of director of the Masterton Technical School On the retirement of the late Mr. George MacMorran five years ago, Mr Leslie was appointed headmaster of the Terrace School, Wellington j Our Normanby correspondent writes: j yuite a gloom was cast over the townI ship when it became known that Mr J Gillespie, foreman for the Normanby Town Board had passed away at the Hawera Hospital on Monday morning i,-ii deceased > wn° contracted a severe chill about a month ago, had resumed his duties last week and was about as usual up till 9 o'clock on Sunday night ™er retiring he became suddenly ill Medical, aid was summoned and his immediate removal to Hawera Hospital was ordered, but he never regained consciousness and died at 11 o'clock on Monday morning. Mrs Gillespie and relatives will have the sympathy of all in their sad bereavement. The funeral ; will leave his late residence on Wednesday for the Hawera Cemetery

One of Wellington's oldest identities in the person of Mrs Isabella Melntyre passed away last week at the advanced age of 81 years. Her parents, Mr and Mrs John Watson, came to New Zealand in 1842, arriving in Wellington with the first batch of settlers and she w as born a year later. She lived in Wellington with her parents until she was 20 years of age, and watched the settlement grow from the first cluster of thatched huts into a small town In 1864 she went to Taranaki, where she married Mr Charles Melntyre, then serving in the Government forces in the Maori wars, and for two years experienced the vigours of garrison life in time of hostilities. She and her husband returned to Wellington in '66 where they were engaged in business fOT man V years. Her husband died in 1903. One of her sons was the late Mr Harry Melntyre, the well-known Poneke footballer. Two of the sons, Malcolm and Donald, served in the South African War, and six grandchildren fought in the late war, two of them being killed.