Personal

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20168, 9 June 1928, Page 6

Personal

On the application of Mr 17. R. Bain, Mr E. T. Pleasants was yesterday admitted a barrister of tho Supreme Court by his Honour Mr Justice Reed, and Mr A. B. Wilson was also admitted as a barrister, on the application of Mr W. A. Izard.

The death took place at the Wanganui Hospital of Mr William Royston Field, of 145 Glasgow Street, aged 69 years. Deceased had been in ill-health for some time past and his end was not unexpected. Mr Field was born in Australia, and came to Wanganui 15 years ago for 13 of which he was employed on ihe maintenance staff of the City Council. Of a quiet and unassuming nature, he was held in high esteem for his many good qualities by all who knew him. Ho was a great lover of nature, and the propagation of chrysanthemums was a special hobby. He leaves a widow and a family of three sons and one daughter, to whom the sympathy of a wide circle of acquaintances and friends will go out in tho great loss they have sustained in the death of a much loved husband and father. The funeral will leave the Public Hospital at 2 o’clock on Sunday for the Aramoho cemetery..

Guests staying at Hotel Parkville, include: Mr and Mrs Jackson Mason and two children, Wanganui River; Mr Lacy, Wanganui River; Mr and Mrs Dalton, Wellington; Mr and Mrs R. S. Muirhcad, Wellington; Mr S. F. Jones, Wellington; Mr and Mrs Everden. Wellington; Mr W. Herman, Wellington; Mr R. Small, Wellington; Mr W. Hood, Wellington; Mr and Mrs Harkness and child, Stratford; Mr and Mrs E. Rocklcbank, Stratford; Mr M. Lambourne, Auckland; Mr and Mrs G. H. Burrough, Nelson; Mrs Burrough, Nelson; Miss Ross, New Plymouth; Mr F. Mason, New Plymouth; Mr J. 77. Allen, Levin; Mr 11. Harvey, Levin; Mr and Mrs H. B. Taylor, Hawera; Mr and Mrs H. V. Ward, Hawera.

On his periodical visits to his daughter, Mrs J. Peters, oft Bell Street, Mr W. Follow made many friends, who will regret to hear if his death at Waipawa this week. The late Mr Fellow arrived in the Waipawa district over 50 years ago. He was a partner in a contract in connection with the laying of tho railway line from Te Auto to Waipawa, and after the opening of the line he was on the staff of the Waipawa section for a number of years. Later he entered into business at Te Aute, and then came back to Waipawa, being “mine host” of the Commercial Hotel until about five years ago, when he retired into private life. A man of sterling integrity, and generous to a fault, he was a good citizen in the truest sense of the term, one of Nature’s gentlemen. For a number of years he served the borough on the Council, and his widespread popularity was evidenced by the fact that ho was invariably at tho head of the p ill.