PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 57, 12 June 1916, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr G. Meads, who has sold his farm and is leaving the Midhirst district, was, on Wednesday night, entertained at a social evening at the Denbigh Road school. On behalf of the settlers of the Denbigh Road and a few Stratford residents, Mr W. T. Mills

presented Mr Meads with a handbag, and in doing so referred to Mr Meads'

twenty years residence in the district, bis ability as a gra/.ior and farmer, and said he always took an active, part iit matters connected with the road. Mr Meads suitably replied.

A very old resident of the Stratford district, in the person of Mrs M.'Monner. passed away at her home, Skinner Road, yesierday morning,, at linage of 70 years. Mrs Bonner had been in failing health for the last six months, and her end was not unexpected. Mrs Bonner was born in Westmorland, England, and at the age of l'J years came to New Zealand in the ship Bombay. After 1-6 years' residence in the Bombay settlement, Auckland, she came to Taranaki and took up farming on the Skinner Road, where she has resided ever since. Jlr Ralph Bonner predeceased his wife by lo years. Mrs Bonner leaves a family of live girls and three boys, Mrs Me.Queen (Whaugarei), Mrs Huckstep, Mrs Spray, Mrs Toms and Miss Bonner, and Messrs J. Bonner, W. Bonner, and K. Bonner. .