PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2693, 11 July 1923, Page 4

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS

Mr W. H. !' Gilmour uas yesterday rppointcd secctary to tKj Mnrnwatii Goige I3oad of Control, vice Mr J. P. Hiii-die, resigned. Mr. Poynton S.M., has been appointed sole arbitrator in the Paparoa coal dispute, and left Auckland for Wellington last night. Mr. P. J. Small was yesterday appointed the Kairanga County Council's represeniUtive on tho Manawatu Gorge Road Board of Control. Mr Charles Bowden, a, well-known and popular res'dent of Stanley Bay, Auckland, who was a so well-known in Palmerston North, died last week. He was employed as an accountant by Messrs. McKeown and Sons, and collapsed at his work in the firm's office, dying before a doctor could be summoned.! Mr Bowden, a married man with a family of five children, was 51 years of age. and was widely known in the Stanley Bay locality (says the Auckland "Star") because of his zeal and skill as a piper fisherman, and he .made many friends by his genial nature. To his acquaintances he had no appearance of of a 1 ing. He was well-informed with a good all-round knowledge of many things. He was a'so a, most active man in the very prime of life, and his "sudden death came as <i grea*- shock to his friends. The late Mr Bowden was a brother of Mrs A. J. Graham, of Palmerston North. Technical school millinery students should get their share of these 1000 bundles milHner.y straw from London at (Id. 9d, 1/ and 1/3 bundle, worth from 1/11 to 6/11. Collinson and Cunninghame.*