Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 7 August 1948, Page 2

Local & General

Person 3ft r * * Mr. ' J. Taylor; of .. Cprivent -Road, Otaki, left on Friday, tq spend a holiday in Hawke's Bayjr, He expects to be away abqut/as. week.' , % Mr. and Mrs,; r Frank. Taylor, of Otaki Railway, left on Friday to spend .a, week' ih Hamilton. The hand injury that Mr. Taylor suffered a-fortniglit -ago is. healin.g rapidly. v ^ . ..« The death' ocfcurred at Waikanae on T/mrsday of.Mr. Thomas Williahi Brown, a Waikanae reMdent of many years'1 standing. The funeral took place at Waikanae- today.

' The funeral of the Ijate Mr. Joe . Hakaraia took place at Otaki on Thursday, when there was a large following of relatives and: friehds. Among the pallbearers were members of the Otaki Band, in uniform, deceased having been a member of the famous Otaki Maori Brass Band which, under the baton of JVir. Utiku Hapeta, performed with outstanging success a Rotorua on the , occasion of the visit of the present i King and Queen, then Duke and Duchess of York, and . at the Christchurch Exhibition in 1901.

Last respects t£> th5 memory of the late Mr. P. O'Rourke were paid at Otaki on Friday morning, when the remains were interred at the Otaki Catholic Cemetery. The cortege which followed the casket was a very large one, comprising over 70 cars, a tribute . to the esteem in which Mr. O'Rourke was held. Pupils of,. St. Jo.seph's Convent sang an ' approptri'ate hymn as the cortege left the church, following Requiem Mass, which was taken by Rev. Father K. I.- McGrath, S.M., assisted by Fathers A. Venning, D. Reader and W. Chaney. The service at the graveside was conducted by the Rev. Father Reader.