PERSONAL

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 74, 21 March 1933, Page 8

PERSONAL

Mrs G. M. Wright, Takapau, is on a visit to Wellington. Miss Barbara Williams, Dunedin, has been the guest recently of Mrs Gordon Williams, Waipawa. Mrs J. Rockoil, senr., Napier, is on a visit to Mr and Mrs T. Bishop, Waipawa. 7 Mr and. Mrs Brooke-Taylor (senr.), of Hastings, are to be the guests of Miss Winlovo during the week-end. Dr. J. Lewis Reed and Mrs Reed have returned to Waipukurau after spending a holiday at Taupo and Westshore. A very happy family gathering was hold at the home of Mrs Winlove on a recent evening to celebrate the com-ing-of-agc of her youngest son, Harry. Cardinal Bourne, the great English Roman Catholic Prolate, is gravely ill, and has received the last sacraments, states a British Official Wireless message. Mr R. W. Hawke, M.P. for Kaiapoi, who is on a visit to Mr ,T. Carston, Dannevirke, while visiting friends in the Maharahara district on Sunday evening, had the misfortune to slip from a platform, sustaining severe abrasions to the shoulder. He will be confined to bed for a few days.

The Mayor of Dannevirkc (Mr Marcus D. Smith) states that he will be a candidate for the Mayoralty for a further term. Mr Smith has held office since May, 1929, when, on the retirement of Mr A. J. C. Runciman, he successfully contested the Mayoralty. In 1931 he was re-elected unopposed. Mr Smith is an ex-resident of Waipukurau, being a son of the late Hon. W. C. Smith, M.L.C., and Mrs Smith. Bedford Terrace. A leading Maori of the Bay of Plenty district, Mita te Rangituahoka, better known as Mita Tahoka, died on March .13, while on his way from Otamarakau to Maketu. He was stated to be well over 100 years of age. Ho used to say that he witnessed the signing of a copy of the Treaty of Waitangi at the Maori village situated where Auckland now stands. Deceased was a veteran of the Maori war, having fought on the side of the British. He was being conveyed at the time his death occurred to Maketu. as he desired to end his days at the historic landing place of the Arawa canoe. The many friends of Mr Alfred Matthews, of Opaki Road, Masterton. will regret to hear of his death, which occurred on Sunday. The late Mr Matthews, who was 79 years of age, was one of the pioneer settlers of the district, having been in occupation of his Opaki farm for the past 54 years. Two years ago he celebrated his golden wedding. Born in Rochester Street, New York, in 1853, he came to New Zealand with his parents when two years of age, in the ship Westminster, arriving in ‘Wellington in April. 1856. He resided in Wellington for two years and came to the Wairarapa in 1858, first of all residing in the South Wairarapa, before coming to Masterton. where in later years he engaged in farming pursuits and took up the wellknown property at Opaki. of which he had been in occupation ever since.