Personal Pars

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 297, 30 November 1936, Page 4

Personal Pars

A London cablegram ' announces the death of Major Howson who siarted making Armistice poppies I with five helpers in 1922 and there-1 aLer developed a' factory employing j 368 disabled exservicemen, turning j out 30,000.000 poppies yearly. i A Press Association message from Nelson reports 'that Miss Eileen Louie Ellis, aged 39, matron of the special school for girls at Richmond, | died suddenly of heart failure at 6.15 on Saturday evening. She was nurs-j ing at Hamilton, Whangarei,, 'the Cashmere Sanatorium and was in i England lor several years beforej taking up the position at Richmond i The arrival in Blenheim, states the “Alarlboiough Express” of Mr, Frank Foley, formerly of S.natford, has resulted in an acquisition to the Regimental Band. Mr. Foley is an experienced bandsman and plays either the tenor horn or the baritone. He has previously been associated with congest playing under the conduc.orship of Mr. H. McCaskill, the present conductor of the Regimental | Band, who also came to Blenheim ! from Stratford. The “Westport News” reports the death on Friday. November 20, of i Mrs. Bevan, wife of Mr. Mel Bevan, j manager of the Municipal Gasworks | and sister of Messrs. Geoige and Cecil Lamplough of Stratford. Her father, the late Mr. George T.amplough, was one of Westport’s pioneer j residents and business men, serving I on the Hospital Board and County j Council. Mrs. Bevan is survived by j her husband and 'two daughters, j Misses Mia Pe\.an, Westport, and | Melba Bevan, New Plymouth, and! foul brothers. Sympathy is extended | in Westport to 'those relatives, Mrs. j Bevan’s funeral was conducted by the; Rev. Father Phelan, who conducted j Solemn Requiem Mass in St. Canice’s; Churi h at which appropriate hymns; were sung by the students of St. j Mary's College. The large number of; wreaths testified to 'the esteem ini which deceased was held in the! community. ,