PERSONAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18818, 5 March 1931, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr C. W. Wood junr. has just returned to Timaru from Auckland, and will shortly take over the management of the Cecil Wood Co., Ltd. Messrs J. Black (president), and S. MacDonald and Miller, members of the Dunedin Horticultural Society, arrived in Timaru yesterday to attend the Timaru Horticultural Society’s jubilee year autumn show to-day. The death occurred recently at Dunedin of Mr E. Sratton, formerly a well-known cornet player and bandmaster who was conductor at different times of the Dunedin Garrison and Kaikorai Bands. The Timaru South School Committee at their meeting last night passed motions of sympathy with Mr C. R. Dailey, a member of the staff, in the loss of a relative at Napier recently; and with the family of the late Mr J. O’Hara, who had children attending the school. A long and valuable career of service among the Marist Brothers of Australia and New Zealand was brought to a close by the death on Tuesday of Rev. Bro. Basil, first director of the Sacred Heart College at Auckland, and senior adviser to the Order. Bro. Basil, who was 78 years of age, died at the Marist Training College, Tuakau, Waikato, where he had lived in retirement since the celebration of his golden jubilee as a Marist Brother in May of last year.— (Press Assn.) 1