PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 September 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Newton King continues to make satisfactory progress towards recovery, Dr. Haigh, examiner of the Roya] Academy of Music, will be in New Ply* mouth on Friday, September 30. The death is announced of Mr. EL O Ledger, a leading resident of Nelson He was 83 years old.—Press Association.

At the first meeting of the board o! directors of the Awatuna Dairy Company, Mr. E. A. Collins was re-elected chairman for the ensuing year. Mr. H. W. Bundle, S.M., of Auck* land, who is temporarily relieving Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., will preside at th< New Plymouth Magistrate’s Court today. Mr. F. K. Reeves, the weU-knowi Wellington journalist, for some 27 yean a member of the Parliamentary Presi Gallery, has been appointed for the coming session private secretary to the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. T. M .Ji* The death occurred at Petone on Monday last of Mr. Walter Herr-His-lop. The deceased, who was well known in Wellington, served throughout the •war with the NJZ.F.A., both on Gallipoli and in France, sustaining serioiu wounds from shell-fire. He was r civil engineer by profession. Death was due to pneumonia and pleurisy. The death has occurred at Okain’a Bay of Mr. Edward William Harris, a well-known daily farnfer, at the age o! 86 years. Mr. Harris landed at Lyttelton in 1851 from the ship Steadfast, having come with his father and mother from Norwich, England. As little more than a boy he lived in the barracks ut port, and for four years earned his living a<s a baker’s apprentice. Then he took up pit sawing at Okain’s Bay, where the hills were covered with bush. The death took place at New Plymouth on Sunday, of Mrs. Feaver, wife of Mr. John Feaver, of Opunake. She was 70 years of age, and settled with her husband ’and family in Opunake 27 years ago. Deceased is survived by five sons and two daughters—Samuel, John Und Geoffery (Opunake), Richard (Wliangarei), and Charles; the daughters being Mrs. S. Stronge (New Plymouth), and Miss H. M. Feaver (Opunake). On Monday afternoon the Manaia friends of Mr. and Mrs. C. Kirk, who are leaving the district, assembled and presented Mrs. Kirk with a brooch and Mr. Kirk with a case of pipes. Mr. A. Franklin, in presenting a floral bouquet to Mrs. Kirk, spoke in appreciative terms of her sterling qualities as a neighbour and friend, and voiced the wish that her future pathway in life would be through avenues of flowers, expressed in the form of human sympathy and gladness. Suitable acknow-* ledgement was made by the recipients.