BULLS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 281, 30 November 1935, Page 5

BULLS

GENERAL To-day, being St. Andrew’s IDay, will be observed as a bank holiday. The annual general meeting of the Bulls-Ohakea Sports Club will be held !on Monday evening. i Mr. C. L. Hunter, Labour candidate i for Manawatu, visited Bulls on TnursIdav night, and was met by a good number of his supporters. It is stated that Mr. Hunter now has a lead of 14 votes oxer the sitting M.P., Mr. J. Linklater, and the final figures will not Ibe published until postal and absentee I votes are fully accounted for. The , position is interesting and hopes on !both s : des are running high. Great sympathy is felt for Mr. and Mrs. Percy Hakaria, whose two-year-old daughter Gracie passed away in J the Wanganui Hospital at an early hour yesterday morning. The little one fell into a bucket of boiling water on Wednesday evening, and Dr. Watson was immediately called in, ami ordered the child to the hospital. | Thursday’s reports were reassuring. ■ but death occurred yesterday. I Descendants of pioneer families of . ■ Rangitikei followed the mortal remains of the late Catherine Fraser to the ’ Eraser Private Cemetery at Parewanui • yesterday. Deceased was the youngest lof the large family of Duncan and Marjorie Fraser, and was born at . (“Pukehou,” Rangitisei. 90 years ago. • She left this district upwards of 40 i years back, and for a considerable time conducted a private school at Patea, (retiring about 1914 and going to Wanj ganui to live. Among the mourners ; was Mr. J. J. McDonell, of Marton, , whose parents were Mr. and Mrs. j.Tames McDonell, of 11 Inverhoe, ” t Parewanui. Mr. Janies MdDonell being the first white man to come to Rangitikei to settle. Mr. Duncan Fraser was one of the earliest settlers here also, and Miss Catherine Fraser, whose ■ funeral took place yesterday, was the r I last of the Fraser family. Mr. Shilton, I Presbyterian minister, conducted the el service at the graveside.