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Wairarapa Age, 18 May 1920, Page 5

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Mr Martin, of Auckland, has been appointed town clerk at Dargaville. The Bishop of Nelson (Dr. Sadlier) is the guest of Mrs Morrison, of Lansdovvne. The Venerable Archdeacon Watson, of Wellington, is the guest of Mr and Mrs W. G. Beard, of Cole street. The Hon. J. G. Anderson, Minister of Internal Affairs, is a journalist by profession. For a number of years he edited the Mataura Ensign, at Gore. Mr William Pryor, secretary of the Employers' Association, is at present in Masterton. Mr Pryor will leave for Napier by the mail train on Wednesday. Mr Norman H. Higgs, late of the staff of Messrs Levin and Co., Ltd., left Masterton yesterday for Melbourne, where he intends taking up his residence. Mr Edward ltobsoii, who died at Tauranga last week, arrived there as sheep inspector in 1880. Prior to that he had been sheep farming at Poverty Bay. The death occurred in the Greytown Hospital on Sunday of John Percival Abbott, the youngest son of Mr and Mrß Josiah Abbott, of Featherston, at the age of sixteen years. Mr William Jacob Jack died last week, aged 69 years. His father was a sea captain, and took the first lot of birds to Australia. The deceased was educated by his uncle, the Rev. Mr Allan, in Scotland, and at Port Said, and came out to New Zealand in the Devonshire. He took up land at Ellesmere, and later at Waitohi Flat and Winchester. He married Miss Burgess, niece of Colonel Toler, and great-granddaughter of Sir John Hayes. He leaves a widow, three sons, and one daughter to mourn their loss. The Rev. A. Godfrey, formerly of Masterton, who intended returning to New Zealand next month from Vilu, ifi the New Hebrides, where lie is doing missionary work, in order to receive treatment for his eyes, has been delayed for a month or two. Influenza developed on the missionary steamer Southern Cross when it was a few days from Vilu, and the vessel put back to Auckland. It has now returned to the islands, and should be back about the middle or the end of August.

Referring to thff death of Mr L. St. George, of Masterton, the Taranaki Herald says:—Deceased was a native of New Plymouth and was the eldest surviving son of the late Dr. St. George, and brother therefore of Mrs Newton King. He was educated at Beard worth's School and afterwards joined his father and Mr Fred Rawson in carrying on a chemist's business in premises standing where Mr F. W. Hall's shop now is. In the early seventies he went to the Wairarapa and established himself as a chemist at Greytown. The death occurred at the Masterton Hospital yesterday of another old identity of the district in the person of Mrs Elizabeth Deadman, of Ohakune, and a former resident of Masterton. The late Mrs Deadman was a daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Henry Jones, of Kuripuni. She was born at Preston Capes, Northampton, and came to New Zealand with her parents at the .age of three, in the ship London in 1542. The deceased lived for some years at Karori and the Hutt, arriving in Masterton in 1856, and married her late husband some years later. Mrs Deadman leaves a family of six sons—Messr H. Deadman (Woodville), J. Deadman (Nelon), F. Deadman (Kakahi), C. Deadman (Wanganui), A. Deadman (Ohakune), and G. Deadman (Dannevirke), also thirty-five grandchildren, and twelve great-grandchildren. The funeral will leave the residence of the deceased's brother, Mr Edward Jones, of Kuripuni, on Wednesday afternoon for the Masterton cemetery.