PERSONAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3721, 24 November 1927, Page 2

PERSONAL.

A well-known citizen of Petonc, in the person of Mr. John Pipei\ died on Monday, aged 80 years. Mrs. T. Hart, of Thynne Street, underwent an operation in the Palmerston Hospital yesterday. Her friends will be pleased to learn that she is progressing satisfactorily. The engagement is announced of Wiilliam Lewis, eldest son of Mr and Mrs. W. Johnson, or Oroua Downs, to Evelyn Bennett - , eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Barr, “Highlank Park,” Wellington. (Fifty years at sea is the record of Captain John Bollons, master of the Government steamer Tutanekai. There is probably no shipmaster in New Zealand who is so conversant with the intricacies of the coast as Captain Bollons. He is widely known throughout the length and breadth of the Dominion, and has made a host of friends in every port. In a brief ..conversation with a member of the “Otago Daily Times” staff, Captain Bollons said he felt as tit and active as he did twenty or thirty years ago, and that he was not feeling the strain of his many years’ work on the coast. [Mr. John Ross, of Foxton, served as a ship mate with Captain Bollons for several years.] One of the pioneer settlers of the Forty-mile Bush district, Mr. James McKinlay, passed away at his residence, Ross Street, Woodville, yesterday. The late Mr. McKinlay was widely known in Woodville and Pahiat.ua, and his general personality and manly characteristics made him universally respected and popular. He was, born in 1853 and came to New Zealand when a lad with his eldest brother Allan, arriving in Lyttelton by the ship Glenmark in 1863. He had been a director of the Papatawa Dairy Company since its inception and still held that position at the time of his death. He is survived by a widow, six sons and four daughters. The sons are: Allan (Wellington), William George (Papatawa), Edward Ernest (Halcombe), Malcolm (Woodville), Angus (Ashhurst) and Donald (Woodville). The daughters are: Mrs. Geo. Garry (Woodville), Mrs. Crowe (Westport), Mrs. Pryde (Woodville), and Mrs. Ebbett (Foxton).