PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 231, 28 August 1933, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Messrs T. C. Brash (president) and H. E. Napier (secretary), of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation, Ltd., were visitors to Palmerston North to-day. Mr A. S. Faire, District Public Trustee at Auckland and previously of Palmerston North, was a visitor to the city during the week-end. He proceeded'to Wellington to-day.

Mr H. A. Stephens, of Nelson, chairman of the New Zealand Fruit Export Control Board, visited Palmerston North to-day for the Wellington district conference of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation, Ltd.

The death is announced in a Press Association message from Christchurch of Rev. George Lindsay, aged 87, a retired minister of the Presbyterian Church. He was minister of St. Paul’s, Invercargill, for 23 years until 1911, in which year he was Moderator of the General Assembly. Afterwards he was at St. Clair for two years and at Soutlibridge for five years.

In a letter received at to-day’s meeting of the Palmerston North River Hoard the former engineer, Mr E. Fisher, who resigned on account of ill health, said he had had a very pleasant passage on the Maktira to Rarotonga and hoped the change of climate would restore his health. The letter was received and the hope expressed that the change would have the desired effect.

The death is announced of Mr William Clement Cargill, of Morrinsville, aged 63. From 1892 to 1902 he was proprietor of the Wairarapa Star, later known as tho Age, and from 1904 until 1908 ho controlled the Patea Press. Subsequently lie started the Pukekoho Times and then purchased the Morrinsville Star. At the time of his death he was managing director of the Cargill Publishing Company, which publishes the Morrinsville Star, Matamata Record and Putaruru Press. Mr Cargill was president of tho Master Printers’ Federation from 1928 until 1930.

One of Hawke’s Bay’s early settlers, Mr Robert Loos mo re Williams, man-aging-director of the firm of Henry Williams and Sons, Ltd., wholesale and retail hardware merchants and ironmongers, died at his residence. Marine Parade, Napier, on Friday. Mr Williams was the eldest son of the late Mr Henry Williams, the original founder of the firm of Henry Williams and Sons, Ltd., and was born at Bath, England. Always interesting in racing, the late Mr Williams was honorary clerk of the scales for the Hawke’s Bav Jockev Club for a number of years and a steward of the Napier Park Racing Club. He was also a member of the Napier Club and a life member of the Cosmopolitan Club, haying been an officebearer of the old Napier Working Men’s Club. He is survived by a widow, three sous —Messrs Toni C. Williams (Dannevirke), Eric Williams (Napier) and Jack- Williams (Sydney) —and three daughters—Mrs S. Ruddock (Napier), Mrs Bellerhy (Putorino) and Mrs Dobvon (Wellington).