PERSONAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 5116, 19 July 1939, Page 3

PERSONAL.

(Mr and Mrs R. Cull, of Main St., have returned • home from a holiday spent in the north. Mrs L. Burling, of Aokanterc, returned home to-day, after spending a few days with her daughter, Mrs S. I. Walden, of Tliynne St.

The death occurred in Timaru on Sunday of Mr Jack O’Leary, a son of the late May and Mi's Humphrey O’Leary, of Afastcrton. Many years ago Mr O’Leary left Mastcrton to reside in Timaru, He represented Wairarapa and South Canterbury at football. He leaves a widow and three grown-up daughters as well as two brothers, Mr Joe O’Leary (Masterton) and Mr Humphrey O’Leary (Wellington) and. four sisters, Mesdames Peters (Masterton). Aseott (Wanganui), McKenna (Ashhurst), and J. Brophy (Palmerston North). One of the-oldest pupils who attended the Shannon School jubilee was Air Walter Birehley, of Palmerston North, who regretted that his late brothers James and Sydney were unable to be present. They are sons of the late Joseph Birchley and Airs Birehley, of Palmerston North, and well-known on this coast. The late Air Joseph Birehley took up farming at Buckley, and the butchery business at Shannon, and flaxinills atJMoutoa in the early eighties. He was a keen lovei of horse-flesh, and all classes of sport. When the ship Hyderabad was wrecked, as far back as 1879 on the Hokio Beach, she was sold by auction, and passed into the hands of the late Joseph Birehley, of Foxton.