PERSONAL

Northern Advocate, 9 February 1920, Page 2

PERSONAL

The Kawakawa Town Board has elected Mr Cookson temporary cl<'rk, Mr 11. S. Robinson has been returned unopposed to fill the Okaihau Riding vacancy on the Bay of Islands County Council. Mr Wilson, engineer to the Public Works Department, who met with an accident some time back, and who js an inmate of the Kawakawa Hospital, is progressing satisfactorily, and b now out of danger. The friends of Mrs Norman Campbell, of Three Mile Bush Road, who was recently taken t 0 Auckland to be operated upon, will be pleased to hear that she is doing very well. The family expect the operation to takf place either to-day or tomorrow. General regret will be felt throughout the community at the announcement >-f the. death of Mr Robert Mair, who nassed away at 4 o'clock tbifmorni/ig in his 90th year, as a resu'.t of a paralytic stroke. The deceased was an old pioneer of the Whangar"; district, and his death will later receive special notice. An old identity in the person of Mrs Ene Te Tane, died at Oromahoe on Thursday, January 29th. She was the widow of Haratua Tane, and was herself a great rangatira—a chieftainesss of the old time Maori of blue Wood descent. She leaves two sons, Hoori and Hirini Tane, wellknown to the pakeha as George and Sydney.