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Mr. and Mrs. I. Corn have returned frolm a* visit to Napier. Rev. W. H. Nicholas returned to Foxton on Thursday evening after attending the annual conference in connection with the New Zealand Alliance at Wellington. The Mayor (Mr. Perreau) and Town Clerk (Mr. Wim. Trueman) retuirned from Wanganui today, where they had attended the Municipal Conference., Mr. and Mrs. Brockelsby, of Waikato, who are on a (motor tour of the North Island, spent a few days in Foxton as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Walker. Mrs. BrocketsAy, who was born in Foxton, is a niece of Mi*s. Walker and is the second daughter of. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Collins, of Waikato, and late of Foxton.
The death occurred suddenly at the Wellington hospital at 4.30 o’clock on Thursday afternoon of Mi’. H. W. Uru, late M.P. for the Southern Maori district, jand a brother of the late Mr. J. H. W. Uru, a former representative of the same Native constituency. The late Mr. Uru, who lived With his wife in Welling-, ton, was born at Tuahiwi, Kaiapoi, in 1872, a son of Hoani Uru, a descendant of Tu Ahui’iri, of the N’Tu Ahuriri tribe. He received his education at Tuahiwi and at the Rangioi-a High School, and was well-known as an athlete—cyclist, wrestler, and footballer —between 1889 and 1895. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1922, being returned again in 1925, He was defeated at the recent general, election by Mr. T. Makitanara after a very close contest. Mr. Uru is survived by his wife, who is a daughter of Mr. T. R. Rogers, of Albury, Ndw South .Wales, two sous and a daughter. The body was taken South for interment at Tuahiwi on Sunday.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3916, 9 March 1929, Page 2
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