FEILDING

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 243, 11 September 1933, Page 4

FEILDING

GOLF COMPETITIONS.

Interesting games were provided in several of the various competition matches decided over the week-end by the Feilding Golf Club. In the senior championship series H. S. Hewetson came home with a surprise defeat over J. Graham by 3 and 2. Graham held the lead early in the play, but, driving brilliantly. Hewetson drew ahead gradually to take the match. L. J. Carmine also got the better of K. G. Salmond in a keen contest, the game ending 3 and 2 in favour of the former. The match between E. Fair and J. B. Duthie saw Fair 5 up with 6 to go at one period, but from then on he faded away and the 18th green found the game all square. Playing off, the 19th hole was halved and Duthie took the 20th to win a consistently fought game. In the junior championship games, J. C. Hill beat W. F. Drube and P. Pearson accounted for L. Ewen. S. W. J. Brown returned a splendid card of 5 up on bogey in a bogey game on Saturday afternoon. He went round in 85, playing to a handicap much below that allotted him. The links were in splendid order, but a high easterlv wind made some of the hoi es difficult to play. ■ I The Marton Club will pay a return visit to-Feilding nest week-end.

BUILDING SUBSIDY

Regarding the Unemployment Board’s No. 10 building subsidy scheme, Mr C. Clark, postmaster at Feilding, states that up to mid-day on Saturday 47 applications for the subsidy had been received in Feilding. These represented an expenditure of £7419 5s 6d on erections within the borough or the vicinity of it. The wages involved, in this sum were set down as approximately £2435 2s, the purchase of materials, etc., accounting for the remaining £SOOO. The buildings concerned in the subsidy included 11 new houses, most of which are to -be erected in the borough, the balance being made up by renovations, painting, etc. The cost of the new dwellings was given at about £550 each. With the commencement of work on the new buildings, it is hoped that a considerable number of men will he withdrawn from the local relief register, particularly those concerned in the building trade.

HOCKEY

In a friendly hockey match between ladies’ representative teams from Feilding and Carnarvon, played' at Carnarvon on Saturday afternoon, a draw resulted, both sides scoring two goals.

VICTIM OF ELECTROCUTION.

EDUCATED IN FEILDING. Mr Stanhope Sherwell Smart, whose untimely death by electrocution occurred at Invercargill on Sunday week, was born in 1883, at Bath, Somerset. He was the son of Mr Robert Broughton Smart, deputy superintendent, Survey of India. He received his early education in Edinburgh ; and then on the death of his father he came to New Zealand with his mother, completing Iris education in Feilding. After brief engineering experience in Feilding he went to Dunedin and studied electricity at the Technical College. To gain wider experience he travelled to England and accepted employment at the British Thomson-Houston Company’s

power house, Rugby. He volunteered for active service, but the War Council retained him at the power house. On April 29, 1918, a serious explosion occurred at the works, three of the four men on duty in the boilerroom suffering injury and shock and the fourth succumbing to his injuries. For his gallant conduct on the occasion the King awarded the Edward Medal to Mr John Gainer, boiler-room assistant, and the coroner and the Board of Trade representative highly complimented Mr Smart, who was the switchboard attendant, for Iris courage and presence of mind. In 1919 Mr Smart married Miss Cox, of Rugby, and early in the following year he and his wife <a me to New Zealand. He was employed for a time as electrician in the Railways Department, then on electrical work in Nelson and as borough engineer at Mataura. Li 1924 he was appointed house-wiring inspector to the Southland Electric Power board, being subsequently promoted to sub-station attendant. Mr Smart leaves a widow and two young sons. His mother resides in Dunedin.

OBITUARY.

The many friends of Mrs Jas. Aitken, of Feilding, will regret to learn of the dentil of her motlier, Mrs Cameron, at Waitarn, on Saturday morning. The late Mrs Cameron had attained the ripe old age of nearly 90 years and except for the last few years of her life had been in an active state of health. • She was Irorn in the Taranaki district and for tlie last 50 years lmd lived in Waitara. She was predeceased by her husband some eight or nine years ago when he was aged 85 years, and she is survived by six daughters and two sons. The daughters are Mesdames. J. Aitken (Feilding), R. D. Barford (Wanganui), \\. H. Fookes (Taihape), It. Stead (Waitara), G. Nosworthy (Auckland) and Miss A- Cameron (Waitara). The sons are Messrs A. Cameron (Auckland) and W. Cameron (Sydney). Two other daughters — —Mesdames A. Ogle (Waitara) and Woodhouse (Waitara), predeceased their mother.

Although the late Mrs Cameron had been bedridden for the last six years, she had retained her sight and hearing and other mental faculties excellently right up to the time of her death.