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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19126, 22 September 1936, Page 13

j greeting to-day, with Botarian Bees Maddock in the chair, the Gisborne Botarv Club heard from the president .'and secretary, Messrs. H. F. Forster and ’Mainland L. Foster, something of the I proceedings of the recent conference con'vened in Wellington by the district ‘governor, Rotarian Will Thomas. The ireviews of the conference work took the ■place of the weekly address, and were I furnished so that club members might tlie scope of their movement, fand-lhe importance of its later developanents.

| : Tltc Northern Advocate records the |death of Mrs. Mary Dobson, at the age lof 74 years, wife of Mr. Thomas Dobson, f'Wbangarei. Mi’s. Dobson was the eldest of the late Mr. and Mrs. Willliam Hall Palmer, and in her youth spent fa considerable time in New York. She flater returned to England to reside in ißrighton, and then in the Carlisle district, where she was married in 1891. Iln her earlier years she was tfie possessor rof a fine soprano voice, and always took la keen interest in musical affairs. With IJl*r husband and her family, she went Ife Whangarei in 1908, Mr. Dobson enfjeaglng in a carting business. Mrs. Dob:eon had been in ill-health for the past I fhree months. She is survived by her [ husband and one daughter and three ) iwns. One son, Mr. Fred Dobson, resides |d Gubonge. •'ip -* '• '