PERSONAL

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 126, 31 May 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr Will Lawsoh', organiser' ef" "fcn«r Mai-lborough. 4 [ adyancem«jni raovement:, will visit, I-ictoni fenHMrrow.

Mr J. T. : Martin,, oi Wri^rfc^ Stephenson, and; Co:;, replaces Mr W. I). Hunt|on the E.FIC.A. Board! of Inquiryi The board; will i>robabbr sit next Wednesday.

jCaptain J, M. Gillespie,, an eld BlerilVeim boy, aiid a^ brother of Mrs. F. W. Adams, •has beeiii ap^ointedi a Commissioner of .We^fera^ Samoa. Her will succeed Mr Williamsi, A\diO for tbor past .20 years lias been f D©ptrtyAdministrator of Savaii. Mr Williams has resigned/ and will retire at the end of July..

A v-ery old; resident oE Nelson* passed} away, suddenly oh Thursday in theperson, of Mr J. P. Qs>ak& r a,t the adyanoed^age of 84 years. Mr Cooko was born in Gloucester in 1836, and came; to Nelson in thei sfiip' Croleoanda, arriving on Christmas Eve, 1859F6r three years after- Ms arrival m Nelson Mr Cooke worked afe his trade;witli the late Mr Louisson, and then started business on his awn accounts in Lower Hardy Street on the sit® where Hie firm's premises now stand. ;It was the first business establishi nient erected in that part of ' th« : jtown, and1 Mr Cooke/ could claim to- / lie the; oldest business man in Nelson. ! ■ 'Never a very robust; man, he had cn T ijbyedl better health during: the lattei.ycarsidf his life than: when a younpe1" ■man. Mr Cooko was a very o'fk ! member of the Oddfellows, and wnst iGrrand Master of the Nelson District in? 1880. Mrs Coofc© predeceased her husband last"1 .year.