PERSONAL

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 353, 9 September 1933, Page 4

PERSONAL

' Mr W. J. Poison, M.P., has return- | od from Wanganui. | Mr. S. R. Morlcy left for Auckland j on holiday by the express last night. The Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates Actingj Prime Minister, left Wellington for the ! south by the ferry steamer last even- ' ing. Mr Coates, who intends to speak i in the Lyttelton by-election canipaing, ! will return to Wellington by acro- | plane on Wednesday next. Mr W. B. Farquharson, late of \ Messrs Thos. Borthwick and Sons Lid | and of the Farmers' Co-op Stock \ Department, staff from 15)28 to 1931 lias now been appointed manager of the Stock Departments of the Hawera and Stratford branches of the. Farmers' Co-op Organisation Soci&ty of N.Z. Ltd., his headquarters, being at Hawora. Mr Henry Alexander Lamb, senior, supervisor of the accountants' branch of the General Post Office, Wellington, has been appointed grand secretary of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of! Now Zealand in succession to Colonel Barclay, who recently resigned the; office, which he has held since 1920, '' says a Wellington Press Association message. j

The death of Mr John Corrigal has occured at Duntroon, North Otago, Mr Corrigal was born is the Orkney Islands, and came to New Zealand when in his .'ate teens by the ship Bouverie. He devoted his life to farming, and was on*; of those who, on a small area of land made a success, of

mixed farming. He was predeceased by his wife and his only son, Mr Jam Jes Corrigall, New Plymouth, but is survived by six daughters.