PERSONAL

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6850, 4 March 1929, Page 6

PERSONAL

Air. A, Dawson, Chief Postmaster at Palmerston North, commences a three weeks’ vacation to-day. It is Mr. Dawson’s intention to tour National Park, Taupo and Rotorua by car. Mr. N. R. Melsaac, relieving postmaster of tho G.P.0., Wellington, is acting as chief postmaster at Palmerston North during the tho absence of Mr. A. Dawson, who is on leave. A cable message from Paris announces the death of M. Lenglen, tho father of Madamoiselle Suzanne Lenglen, tho once famous lawn tennis player. It is stated that the coaching M. Lenglen gave his daughter in her younger days made her the champion she later became.

Mr. D. Hebenton, who has been associated with the Reform Party in the capacity of chief organiser since August, 1923, left by the Marama yesterday for Sydney en route for England. During his stay in England it is his intention to make a study of electioneering methods adopted by the several parties at tho forthcoming general election. Ho expects to return to tho Dominion in about nine months' time. Mr. E. A. James still remains in charge of the organisation as Dominion secretary at the national headquarters.

The death has occurred at Pamapuria of Job Toamia, who was stated to bo 105 years of age, states an Auckland Press message. In his younger days, Toamia was an all-round sportsman, excelling in boxing, wrestling and running. He was a great devotee of tho turf and during the early ’eighties owned some of the best racehorses between Kawakawa and the North Cape. Part of his life was spent at sea and he sailed in some of the early whaling vessels as an ordinary seaman. Eventually he was promoted to first mate. He was one of tho five survivors of a ship wrecked off Cape Karikari, North Auckland.

Tho death of Mr. Robert Brown, of Colyton, which occurred on Eriday, will be regretted by a wide circle of friends. Deceased, who was in his 90th year, came to the Dominion at the time of tho famous Gabriel’s Gully gold rush. Later, when returning to Tasmania, tho land of his birth, Mr. Brown was shipwrecked on the Tasmanian coast. Ho returned to New Zealand in the early eighties, and after short periods spent at Wanganui, Kororiki and Makino settled on the Midland road, Colyton, where he spent almost forty years. Deceased was predeceased by four sons (one of whom was killed in the war) and one daughter. The remaining members of the family are: Mr. Robert Brown, of Westmere, Wanganui; Mr. Peter Brown, who is at present returning from a holiday spent in Australia; Mrs. E. Hubner, of Makino, Feilding; Airs. J. Hislop, of Ekotahuna, and Airs. F. Adamson, of Midland road, Colyton. Airs. J. Craven, of Collingwood street, Palmerston North, is a niece of deceased. The burial took place yesterday at tho Feilding cemetery.