PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 8 February 1935, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. D. J. Malone, president of the Stratford Racing Club, and Mr. W. Power, secretary, were visitors to New Plymouth yesterday. The death has occurred of Mr. Thomas Fisher Unwin, the publisher, says a London cable. He “discovered” Joseph Conrad, and was the first publisher of Galsworthy.

Major A. E. Conway will leave New Plymouth this morning for Waipukurau, where he will be brigade major at the annual camp of the New Zealand Infantry Brigade, which will open on February 16. Captain F. L. Hunt will leave for Waipukurau to-morrow. Mr. F. J. Brown, secretary of the New Plymouth Model Aero Club, will leave this morning for Wellington, where he will attend a meeting of the Wellington Model Aero Club as delegate from New Plymouth.

The Hon. S. G. Smith, Minister of Education, Mr. H. G. Dickie, M.P. for Patea, and Mr. Taite Te Tomo, member for the Western Maori district, were among those present at the New Plymouth races. The late Mr. H. Berry, who with his wife was killed when their car went over a bank at Nelson during a camping tour, had lived at Christchurch all his life. His brother, Mr. L. J. Berry, Wellington, is secretary of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of New Zealand. The sudden death of Mr. A. J. Bierre occurred at Dunedin early yesterday morning after a seizure, says a Press Association. message. Mr. Bierre was general superintendent of works on the Fletcher Company’s post office contract An Aucklander, he was long associated with the Fletcher Company. He suffered with heart trouble after influenza a year ago, and his death is attributed to a recurrence of this malady. The death has occurred of Mr. Thomas Bartlett, one of the last links with the old whaling days at Mahia and Waikokopu. Mr. Bartlett, who was a survivor of the war with the Maoris and was a veteran of the South African War, died at Kopua, where he had lived most of his life. He was born at Maraetaha, Poverty Bay, in 1844. As a boy he went to Mahia to work at the whaling station, and had many thrilling experiences in the pursuit of whales. Just after the conclusion of the Maori War in Taranaki Mr. Bartlett accompanied the expedition which set out to cut off the rebel leader Te Kooti, from his destination, the Urewera country. He was present at the Paparatu engagement and at the fighting at Waikaremoana and finally at Ngatapa. Mr. Bartlett received the New Zealand War Medal.