PERSONAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3814, 5 July 1928, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr H. Hutchins received word this morning that his brother had passed away at New Plymouth. Mrs. J. M'Kenna, who has been indisposed for some weeks, has been removed to a private, hospital in Levin. The friends of Mrs R. Owen will regret to learn that she is an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital, where she is to undergo an operation to her finger. Mr Timothy Breen, a retired policeman, collapsed in the street at Wanganui'on Monday night, and expired in a few minutes. Mr Breen, who was in the vicinity of 73 years of age, was a member of the Police Force for over thirty years, having joined up on November 12th, 1886, his retirement dating from January, 1920. For some time after he left the Police Force Mr Breen hacf been residing in* the Waverley district. He leaves a widow and a grown-up family. Mr. 11. S. Baker, Attorney-Gen-eral and Minister of Education in the new Nationalist Cabinet- in Tasmania, is the fourth son of the Rev. S. J. Baker, formerly wellknown as a Congregationalist minister in New Zealand, and who is now living in Melbourne. Mr. Ba, ker was educated in Palmerston N.,_ matriculating while at the High School there. • On leaving school he took up journalism, which he deserted after some years for the law. His only sister, Mrs. T. A. Smith, lives at Colvton, near Feilding, and his eldest brother, Mr. S. G. Baker, is chief sub-editor of “The Dominion.”