PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 39, 15 October 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr r. Lucas, chief messenger at Parliamentary Buildings. dropped dead on Queen’s wharf hist night, says a Wellington I’.A. message. The engagement is announced of Miss Alice Macdonald, daughter of Mrs Macdonald, The Terrace, Wellington, to Lieut. Kenneth Munro. only son of Mr and Mrs F Munro, Hastings, formerly of Stratford. s.Mr T. Robson, of Hobson Hoad, Ngaere, has sold his farm, and intends to leave by the Niagara on November 2nd for California. It is Mr Robson's, Intention to enter the fruit-growing| industry, making a speciality of, mange cultivation. ; 1 Mr H. .1. Cooper, of the International Harvester Co., the well-known maehin-j »ry and implement makers, has taken, ip his permanent residence in Strat-g ord. and will be in charge of the inn’s business in ibis district. The. >ntral Co-op. Stores have arranged a .pocial machinery departnumt, and dis-, days will he made in connection there-! vith. Mr Cooper, as a machinery aiesman, is widelv known. j I Hon. .1. A. Millar. M.L.C.. aged HO j ears, who died at Auckland last light, was born in India, and took an ctive part in framing the Dominion’s aibor legislation. In his earlier years; e followed the sea as a vocation, and, as for some time a master mariner. • n the early ’eighties he settled in , binedin, and in ISS7. he was elected j eneral' Secretary of the Federatedj eameji’s Union of New Zealand. Hod as retunied to Parliament in IS9H. j le was for some years Chairman of j ommittees. and in 190(5 accepted the; artfolios of Labor and Marine and ommissioner of Customs, being in large when the revised tariff was, ; issed in 1907. He was appointed toj . ie Legislative Council by the Massey , overnnient, about two years ago. j ;