PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 78, 2 December 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr J. B. Mine, who had paid a Hying visit to Stratford, returned to Wellington by this morning’s mail train. The death was announced at Havelock North, Hawke’s Bay, on Friday, of Mr John Barr, at one time Mayor of Eastbourne. Mr H. Gourley, of the Timaru Post Office staff, received a valuable presentation from his associates yesterday, ou his retirement after 40 years of service. An old resident of Wellington passed away at an early hour on Saturday morning in the person of Mr Archibald McLeod, the senior partner in the timber milling and joinery firm of McLeod, Weir and Hopkirk, whose extensive premises extend from Johnston to Waring Taylor streets, along the Featherston street side, of the mid-city block.

The death is announced from Mataura of Mrs Daniel McGowan, -Gowanhrae. aged seventy. Deceased was a native of Lanarkshire, and arrived at Bluff in 1863. She settled on a farm at Mataura in 1877, where she had resided ever since. She leaves a husband and six sons and six daughters, eleven of whom are married. There are forty granchildren and one greatgrandchild. Three sons are resident at Putaruru, in the Auckland district, one in Canterbury, and two at Mataura.