PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1933, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. A. A. Ross, Auckland, was last night elected a life member of the New Zealand Farmers’' Union, says a Press Association message.

The death is reported by the Press Association from. Auckland of Mr. W. J. Cuttie, an auctioneer, who was formerly in business at Wanganui, where he contested a Parliamentary election.

Dr. A. J. Mason, M.B. (N.Z.), F.R.C.S. (Eng), M.Ch. (N.Z.), resident surgical officer at the Dunedin hospital, has been appointed superintendent of the Ashburton hospital. There were 22 applicants, including two in England and .one at Melbourne, the Press Association reports.

Sympathy with the relatives of the late Mesdames F. Hogg (Kawaroa Park) and J. L. Campbell (New Plymouth club) was expressed by the Taranaki Croquet Association at the annual meeting yesterday.

Tributes to the good work of Mrs. A. S. Clark, secretary of the Taranaki Croquet Association, were paid at the annual meeting yesterday. It was considered that Mrs. Clark had done much for croquet. She was voted an honorarium of £5 and was unanimously re-elected for the ensuing year.

Mr. G. N. McLean, North Canterbury, has been appointed a stipendiary steward for the South Island by the Racing Conference, in succession to Mr. G. Curry, who resigned owing to ill-health, states the Press Association. Mr. McLean will begin his new duties on August 1.

Mr. C. A. Cuming, formerly of the Waikato Times, and latterly of the New Zealand Farmer, has been appointed stud stock representative of the New Zealand Dairy Exporter. Mr. Cuming, one of the chief authorities on agricultural matters hi New Zealand, has been specially engaged by the Taranaki Daily News as a. contributor to its Saturday agricultural page. A tribute to the memory of the late Mr. E. Parsons, Waitotara, was paid by Mr. W. J. Poison, president, at the meeting of the Dominion executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union at Wellington. Mr. Polson said Mr. Parsons for many years had been a staunch and prominent member of the union, and his counsels would be greatly missed. .A motion of condolence with the relatives was carried, members standing.

At the annual conference of the Womens’ Division of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union at Wellington the delegates include Mesdames A. E. Death (Hawera), H. Marfell and J. Smillie (New Plymouth), C. Benton (Auroa), W. J. Polson (Stratford), R. M. Cameron (Okaiawa), L. Walters and Sutherland (Manaia), J. Cocker (Eltham), H. R. Marsh (Inglewood), T. Dill (Midhirst), Boyd (Awatuna), Buckrell and Main (Mokoia), Williams (Mere Mere), J. A. Harris (Taranaki), A. A. Piper (Lowgarth), Trotter (Stratford), French (Bell Block), Misses Milne (Toko) and E. Washer (Okaiawa). The death took place in Feilding on Sunday of Mrs. R. E. Easby, in her 91st year. The eldest daughter of Mr. Thos. Foden, of Manchester, England, Mrs. Easby came to New Zealand with her husband on the ship Bombay, landing at Lyttelton in 1866. Later, the family removed to Wellington, and went to Feilding 26 years ago. Mr. Easby died 13 years ago. The deceased is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Jas. Knight, of Feilding, and Mrs. Harry Farmer, of New Plymouth. There are seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Mrs. Easby sustained a fall on June 15, from _fhe effects of which she did not recover.