VALEDICTORY.

Shannon News, 15 June 1926, Page 3

VALEDICTORY.

As indicated on his retirement from the Horowhenua County Council, Mr C. I. Harkness is leaving the Levin district shortly to take up his residence at Waiuku, near Pukekohe, South Auckland. Mr Harkness has sold his farm on the Bruce road to Mr J. Avery, and has purchased an 83-acre holding at Waiuku recently occupied by Mr G. Yelchich, a wellknown breeder of pedigree Jersey cows and Berkshire pigs. Mr Harkness proposes to. retain his present herd and gradually merge them into a purebred Jersey strain. Mr Harkness took, up his farm in this district on the day the war began in 1914, and in the intervening twelve years he lias -been actively associated with many local projects and societies of progressive nature, and evinced an unfailing interest in any organisation with the well-being oi the Horowhenua district at heart. For eight years he took a prominent part in the work of both the Horowhenua County Council and Wellington Education Board, and for a similar period he was connected with the Kuku Dairy Company, four years as secretary to that organisation and the balance on the directorate. As chairman of the Ohau School Committee his experience in educational matters was of great benefit to the district. Mrs Harkness has made many friends as the result of pleasant association with both the golf and bowling clubs, she being a life member of the latter, and as a member of the Golf Club at Waiuku she should be very popular. Mr and Mrs Harkness leave Levin -on 30th lone, carrying with them, as they wil , every sincere wish for their future prosperity and well being.