PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 40, 17 February 1930, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Rev. F. Buckley, of Auckland, will leave next Friday on a visit to Italy.; He expects to be away for about six mouths, and hopes to attend the Eucharistic Conference'at Carthage.

Mr. A. Cowles, of the Education Department, has left for Chatham Islands to inspect the schools there'

Reference to the loss the club had sustained through the death of Mr. Anthony Harper, for many years prominently associated with the club, was made by the president, Mr. J. Mason, at the annual meeting of the Wellington Kennel Club on Saturday, night. ' .

The Hon. H. Atmore (Minister of Education), who returns from the Gisborne district on" Friday, will begin-a three-day tour of Wairarapa schools on. the following Monday. Mr. Atmore will open the dental clinic at Featherston, a new infant room at Masterton West, and the secondary department at Eketahuna, District, High School,. besides calling at various' other schools and ejinics in the district.

The Bey. Henry Williams, for twentythree years vicar of St. Mark's Anglican Church, Opawa, has tendered his resignation as minister in charge of the parish, and will give up his duties some time within tho next. three months. He will bo succeeded by the Eev. H. W. Smith, who has been hospital chaplain for seven ,years, and Mr. Williams will himself take over Mr. Smith's work. "Educated at the West Christchurch School, Christ's College, and Canterbury College, Mr. Williams took his M.A. degree in. 1896, in which year he was- ordained. He was curate in the Biccarton-Halswell district from 1895 till 1898, and vicar of Halswell for the following . seven years. Prom 1905 to 1907 he was vicar of Woolston, and since then has been stationed at Opawa.

Mr. T. Goodfellow, a well-known settler of Te Maiki, near Kawhia, died on Tuesday. The youngest son of Mr. William Goodfellow, who arrived in. Auckland in 1842, the late Mr. Goodfellow was born at East Tamski. After the termination of the war in. the Waikato two of Mr. Goodf ellow's brothers settled near Te Awamutu, where they went in for breeding pedigree stock. In th# early 'eighties, Mr. Thomas Goodf ellow bought a> pror perty near Paterangi, his elder brother, James Goodfellow, taking over the farm at Tamaki. In 1892 Mr. T. Goodfellow sold his farm at Paterangi. and went to Kawhia; where he was for some time sheep farming on th© peninsula between Kawhia and Aotea Harbour. He also secured the lease of Taharou Block, on the southern side. He sold his interests at Kawhia in 1902, and had lived since in retirement. Forthe last 24 years he had'resided at Te Maiki. Mr. Goodfellow was of a, most generous and hospitable nature, and the cottage hospital at Kawhia was greatly benefited by his liberality. He was also passionately fond o& music, and was no mean performer as an instrumentalist. Mr. Goodfellow is survived by; his widow, who, with her daughter, Miss Goodfellow, lives at Epsom.- Another daughter is Mrs. Chamberlain, of Ponui Island. Two sons lost their lives during the Great War, and another son1 died when a youth. The- only; surviving son is Mr. William Goodfellow, managing director of New Zealand Co-operative Dairies, Ltd. The interment took place at Kawhia Cemetery, the Rev, A. Wildo officiating. Thera was a very largo gathering of both Maoris and Europeans.