PAHIATUA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 210, 4 August 1934, Page 8

PAHIATUA.

PAHIATUA, Aug. 3. UnderX tho auspices of the Paniatua Baxing Club a farewell social was tendered Mr E. T. Horne during tile week. The president of the Boxing Club (Mr A. P. Jenson.) and Messrs G. Oxley, J. A. Walsh, C. C. Symtli, C. McCardle, J. D. Moncrielf, A. C. Paget, J. Gower Chambers, E. Herbert and 11. Trask were present. A number of toasts were proposed and honoured. Mr Horne was presented with a gold-mounted fountain pen by Mr Jensen and Mrs Horne was handed a posy of flowers.

Playing at Eketahuna on Wednesday the Nireaha ladies’ hockey team won the Thrupp Cup for the 1934 season. The following teams competed: Nireaha, Hamua and Kaitawa.

Mr James Dick, of “The Grange,” Ngaturi, passed away yesterday, lie was an early settler in tlio district and was 67 years of age. Born at Saltwater Creek, Canterbury, in 1867, lie went as a young boy with his parents to Sefton, in the same province. His father came to Ngaturi where ho purchased the farm known as “Sefton Farm” and live years later, in 1889, the deceased brought his mother up to Ngaturi. In 1891 the late Mr Dick took over the property known since as “The Grange” and five years afterward he made a trip south to marry Miss M. Smillio, at Leithfield, Canterbury. In later years his wife passed away and in 1915 he married a second time, to Miss H. Priest, of Ngaturi. The deceased was actively identified with any movement to advance his district. Twenty-live years ago he erected the Ngaturi private telephone line which extended as far as Gorge End. For a few years he was a county representative on the Tararua Electric Power Board, having to resign owing to ill-health. Ho was chairman, for many years of the Ngaturi School Committee. The seven children by the first marriage are Mrs D. McGovern (Masterton), Mrs J. Boucher (Whangarei), Mrs I-I. Eglinton (Malcuri), Miss Margaret Dick (Whangarei), Mr John Dick (Ngaturi) Mr Walter Dick and Mr Kenneth Dick (Ngaturi). There are four children by the second union whose names aro Misses May and Daisie Dick and Messrs Arthur and Donald Dick (all of “The Grange.”)