PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2694, 12 July 1923, Page 4

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS

j Mr W. F. Seeker has been appointed I to-the clerical staff of the ManawatulOroua Power Board. There were twenty applicants for the position. The following students of the Palmerston North Pharmacy Class were successful at the recent Pharmacy Examination held in Wellington:— j Section A, Mr R. C. S. Newson. Section B—Messrs. R. Sarney, C. W. Fraser, C. Coulby and A. Bayliss. The funeral of Mr Connor, one of the victims of the Ongarue railway accident, took place at Mangatainoka, cemetery on Tuesday, w'hen there was a large attendance. Floral tributes were rceived from all sports institutions in Pahiatua, Puketoi, Rakaunui • and Makuri, the Railway Department I and others. ' The "King Country Chronicle" rej cords the death at Aria on Sunday last |of Mr D. C. McDonald, who was an I Old identity of the King Country known far and wide as "Killarney i Mac." lie was born in Nova Scotia in 1852 and his parents settled at Waipu, North Auckland some years later. He came to the King Country some twenty years ago, when the land was being cut up and roaded and was exceedingly popular in the survey camps. The retirement of Mr. Wilson Heaps as Sheriff of Nelson is announced. Mr. Heaps received the appointment in 1831, while in the Customs Department, which he joined in 1864, and he is thus one of the oldest' Government officials in the Dominion. In 1881, Mr. Heaps was transferred from Wellington as Collector of Cusjtoms at Nelson, and has resided there ! ever since. Mr. Hcaps's resignation will date as from March 31, 1924, he having been granted' leave of absence |in the meantime. At the end of that I period, Mr. Heaps will have completed '(>o years' service in the employ of the i Government —a record of which few lean boast. Technical school millinery students should get their share of these 1000 bundles millinery straw from London at 6d, 9d, 1/ and 1/3 bundle, worth from 1/11 to 6/11. Collinson and Cunninghame.*