ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 21420, 15 June 1931, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr P. A. Pearce left for the north by th» express last evening.

Mr J. H. Bocock left for Wellington by the express last evening. Mr W. A. McCaw returned to Invercargill by the express on Saturday evening. A Press Association message from London says that the late Tim Healy left an estate valued at £18,887. He bequeathed all to his daughter and two sons, who are his executors.

According to a London Press Association message the death of Lord Trent is announced. He was formerly Sir Jesse Boot and began life as a chemist’s boy in Nottingham. He became the millionaire proprietor of chain cash chemist stores.

A telegram to the Rev. H. E. Bellhouse, of Dunedin, advises of the death on Friday at Auckland of the Rev. J. J. Lewis, one of the best known of the older generation of Methodist ministers in New Zealand, highly respected for his personality, his eloquence, and his scholarly preaching. He came from England in 1870, and was stationed in some of the leading circuits, including Napier, Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland, Eltham and Dunedin. His term at Trinity, Dunedin, was from 1894 to 1899, and then he was transferred to Mornington.

Mr W. H. Wackrow, who has been selected as the United Party’s candidate for the Waimarino seat at the General Election, is a well-knokvn sawmiller, and has been connected with the Waimarino district for the past twenty-four years. He has been a member of the executive of the Sawmiller's Trading Company since its inception. He was elected on the first Taumarunui Borough Council, and following that served two terms as Mayor. He has also been a member of the Taumarunui Hospital Board lor several years. Interested in all forms of outdoor sport, Mr Wackrow has been president of the Taumarunui Racing Club for twelve years, president of the Country Racing Clubs Association, and a member of the New Zealand Racing Conference for a considerable number of years. He has been farming in the Taumarunui district for the past fifteen years.

Aged 91 years, Mr John Kebbell, the oldest surviving pioneer of the Horowhenua district, died at Naumai, Levin, on Thursday morning, states the Dominion. The eldest son of Mr John Kebbell, of the firm of J. and T. Kebbell, at one time prominent flourmillers in Wellington, he came to New Zealand in 1856, with his parents, in the barque Philip Laing, settling near Moutoa, where his father had placed the property in his charge. He was able to keep the mill working upon the grain then grown in the district, but in 1863 he went to Canterbury to study sheep farming, and afterward rode up the coasts of the North Island investigating its richness, returning to his home to turn it into good cattle land. He was elected captain of the Foxton Militia, which was formed in 1868. In 1874 he went to Ohau, where he commenced sheep farming. Elected to the Manawatu County Council, as member for the Otaki riding, he was also one of the initial members of the Horowhenua County Council, being its chairman at various times, retiring in 1917. In 1880, he was appointed a Justice of the Peace. A fairly extensive breeder of Romney Marsh sheep, he was prominent in agricultural affairs in the district. He is survived by his wife, whom he married in 1878, and three daughters.