PERSONAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 4782, 5 May 1937, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr and Mrs R. Woolston have left Foxton and taken up their residence in Wanganui. The friends of Mir A. Lee, who is an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital as the result of meeting with a serious accident on Sunday, will be pleased to learn that he is progressing satisfactorily. Seven applications for the position of handicapper were considered by the Canterbury Jockey Club yesterday and Mi' W. P. Russell, of Palmerston North, was appointed. Mr Russell is well-known locally as handicapper to the Foxton Racing Club. The death occurred at Sandon last Friday, of Mrs Mary Ann Bowater, at the age of 71. Born in Cornwall, England, in 1865, she sailed for New Zealand at the age of nine in the Berar, and landed in Wellington on January 22, 1875. Deceased had resided at Sandon for 60 years. Immediate relatives are Miss Amy Bowater, Mesdames T. H. Williams, E. J. Bowater, J. Currie, all of Sandon, and Mr Harold Bowater (Raetihi); two sisters, Mrs J. Coulter (Sandon), Mrs J. McNab (Marion), and Messrs W. Bowater (Rongotea), and Alfred Bowater (Sandon"). The funeral, which took place at the Sandon Cemetery on Sunday, was largely attended.