PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 164, 12 June 1926, Page 9

PERSONAL

The death is announced from. London of Lord Stevenson, managing director of a firm of distillers, and chairman of the council of Wembley Exhibition. The friends of Mr M. V. Comber, ex-secretary of the Kia Toa Football Club, will be pleased to learn that ho is progressing favourably after a recent serious operation, Mr D. W. Row was nominated, at last night’s meeting of the College Street School Committee, for the position as local representative on the Wanganui Education Board. The election will take place this month. Mr G. L. Mercer, of the clerical staff at the Gisborne railway station, has been transferred to a similar position at the local station and will commence his new duties at an early date.

The friends of Mr G. W. Harden, manager of the Wanganui branch of the Bank of New Souths Wales, and formerly of Palmerston North, will regret to learn that he is at present seriously ill. ' Mr Thomas Hicks, who died at Grey Lynn, Auckland, this week, at the age of 83, had been resident in Auckland more than 60 years. He •was -a native of Cornwall, and spent the greater part of his life as a farmer, also serving in the Maori War.

An Imperial and Maori War Veteran, Mr Robert Davison, died at the Veterans’ Home, Auckland, this week. Mr Davison had been an inmate of the institution since 1917, arid had reached his 89th year. Born at Bainbridge, in the North of Ireland, in 1837, he enlisted in 1855, and was sent with a draft to join tho 65th Regiment, then stationed in New Zealand. Until 1860 he served in Auckland and Wellington. When, the Maori War broke out the regiment was sent to Taranaki, and Mr Davison fought in various engagements.