PERSONAL NOTES.

Inangahua Times, 26 October 1939, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

The Minister of Industries and Commerce, the Hon D- G- Sullivan ind party, who spent 'he week-end at the, Marola Hot Springs, left on i-eturn to Christchurch oo Tuesday. Mesdames Eklund and Duff left f-r Hokitika to-day to attend the halfyearly Council meeting of the West Coast Federation of Women’s Institutes. The death occurred this week at Richmond, Nelson, of Mrs Ayrton, wife of the Rev. Moses Ayrton, for merly stationed in the Buller end West Coast districts. Deceased was 65 years of age. The Hon W. H. Mclntyre, chairman of the Buller Hospital Board and Mr A McDonald, passed through Reefton this morning en route to Wellington via Lewiß Pass. The death took place at Christchurch of Mrs Eliza Evans, widow of the late Mr S. P. Evans of Ross. The deceased was a native of Kumars, and leaves a family two daughters and one son Mr Lance Huff, a wellknown Kanieri resident, died at Westland Hospital yesterday, aged 74- He was a native of New South Wales, and for many years had been mining in Kanieri. . He is survived by his widow.

Mr Edward Young, a first cousin of the Prime Minister of Britain (Sir Neville Chamberlain), died at Westport yesterday. Bora at Scone, Scotland, and educated at the Edinburgh and London Universities, he came ta New Zealand in 1886 to join hia brothers Messrs Robert and Henry Young who were engineers to the Midland Railway Company.