DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

(MUTUARY. (By Telegraph—Press Association). WELLINGTON, May 30. Obituary.—Mrs Elizabeth Mary Holdsworth, widow oif the late J. G. Holdsworth, aged 86 years. She was a daughter of the late Benjamin Smith, coining to New Zealand as a child. C. W. Smith, Christchurch, is now the only surviving member of the family who arrived in the Carnatic in 1854. She is survived by five sons and three daughters, the sons including Sir Charles Holdsworth, managing direc- 1 tor of the Union Steainphip Coy. SUBSTA NTIAL BEQUESTS. PALMERSTON N., May 30.

Under the will ,of the late Mrs Mary Elizabeth Chowon of Palmerston •North, bequests of £IOOO to the building finance committee of North Baptist Church to nu"incut the building fund or other general trust purposes as the O mmittco thinks fit, £IOOO to Cuba. St. Methodist Church for the installation of a pine organ, erection of a t 'wer and liquidation of any remaining debt on tlie church nroperty. Subject to a life interest to a.foster daughter of deceased, she also heqcanths a thousand pounds each %o the Presbyterian Girls’ Orphanage, Webington. Methodist Orphanage. Mastcrton and. Jubilee Institute of the Blind, Auckland.. FOUND HE'D. HA'VERA, May 30. The lifeless body of Ralph Russell, single, aged'24, was found bv a neighbour yesterday afternoon lying near the homestead on.-Jiis pronerty at Makoio, where deceased lived alone and carried on farming A bullet wound showed in the forehead and a pea rifle was found lying close to the bodv. Deceased was a member of a well known and highly respected family residing in south Taranaki street. FALSE PRETENCES. ASHBURTON, May 30. In the Magistrate’s Court, Robert Roberts was sentenced to a year’s hard on each of two charges of presenting valueless cheques, one for a tenner and the bther 'for a fiver. He was convicted and discharged on charges of attempting to obtain a tenner by a valueless cheque and obtaining a. cheque book by . false representations. Accused • had previous convictions. A i‘ x . AIR TESTS. . THREE TRAINEES SUCCESSFUL. BLENHEIM, May 30. Major T. M. Wilkes (Director of A,biation)‘-has jtist completed three days’ test of a batch of Marlborough Aero Club’s trainees for civil pilots’ licenses. There were seven candidates and three, F. G. Dix, R. Gragg and H. H. Vavasour were, successful.^, In the otlier four cases the'lssue of certificates was deferred until next examination in. about three, weekfs time. :. The tests were the-, first of l the., kind held in the Dominion, and were a good deal more stringent than had been anticipated. The three successful pilots ar|e the first Aero- Club members ,in •New Zealand to secure tlio'ir tickets.