PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXI, Issue 18, 10 August 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

'i he (loath, at the age of 7S years of 31 r John .Reid, merchant, Auck laud, is announced.

Mr John Peach, a well-known resident of Ihmumra, has died in his 81st yea; - .

Syd:oy reports the death ot Mrs W nod. formerly Miss Ks-ie donyas. the Shakosperian actress.

The death is reported from Tinshiuie of Sir Samuel Criffiths, form erly Chief Justice of the High Conn of Australia.

'(die death took place at the Stratford Hospital yesterdav of an old resident in the person of Mr James Simmons. Mr Thomas I money, one of the oldest residents of the Pah amia dis. triet. died this week at the age of eighty-five. The Hon, 0. J. Anderson (Minister for Internal Affairs) has made satisfactory progress since his recent o”er<rt’on, a d hU friemls have every rea.

?mi to feel gratified at his present condition.

It is officially announced that the King has appointed "Viscount Buxton to he Chancellor of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, in succession to the Marquess of Lansdowne, who has resigned on account of ill-health. At the meeting of the Stratford Borough Council last evening, a motion of sympathy with ex-Councillor Arden in Ids recent severe attack ol paralysis was unanimously passed by the Council. To-day, it is stated, Mr Arden is improving gatisfactDr.lv. Mr G. Goldsworthy, who for the past twelve or thirteen years has been associated with the seed and manure department of the firm of Mr Newton Iving, in New Plymouth, severed Ids connection with the business on Saturday. Mr Goldsworthy was the recipient of a presentation.

At a meeting of the general committee of the Taranaki Agricultural Society the secretary (Mr W. P. Okey) was presented with a silver sugar basin, cream jug, and butterdish on the eve of his approaching marriage.

The death occurred yesterday at at residence of her son. .Mr A. H. Huggett, Flint Road, of Mrs Ann Sarah Huggett, aged 70, relict of the late Mr Harry Walter Huggett. The late Mrs Huggett came to Stratford about forty years ago, and was highly esteemed by everyone who knew her. Mrs Huggett leaves one daughter (Mrs LiTley, Waikato), and three sons (Albert, Stratford, Arthur and William. New Plymouth.) 5-he was predeceased by her husband by about eight years. TTie funeral will leave Mr A. H. Huggett’s residence to-morrow for the Kopnatama cometary.