PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 November 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The death is reported at Napier of Mr. John Hindmarsh, aged 65, merchant and managing director for Robjohns and Hindmarsh, Napier.

A Christchurch message reports the death of Mrs. Cooper, wife of Mr. W. H. Cooper, a former Mayor of ■f'hristchurch. The late Mrs. Cooper was 7.3 years of age. The Prime Minister (Mr. W. F. Massey), accompanied by his private secretary (Mr. F. D. Thomson) will leave Auckland by the Main Trunk express to-night for New Plymouth, where he will speak to-morrow night. Mr. F. Mills, chairman of the Taranaki executive of the Farmers’ Union, was a .passenger for Wellington by the mail train yesterday morning. He will attend a meeting of the Dominion Council of the Farmers’ Union.

Mr. J. G. Sharpe, one of the oldest residents of Wanganui, died yesterday at the age of eighty-one. He arrived in Victoria when four years old and settled in Wanganui when quite a young man, carrying on business as a grocer and provision merchant. —Press Association.

Mr. H. H. Olson, of New Plymouth, left by the mail train yesterday for Wanganui, where he is to judge the Ayrshire and dairy sections at the Wanganui Show to-day. He was joined at Stratford by Mr. 11. J. Marchant, who went to judge the Friesian section, and at Hawera by Mr. R. J. Hinn, who judges the Jerseys. The death took place at his residence on Friday night of Mr. Samuel Gower, one of the early residents of the Whenuakura Block. The deceased, who was born in the Dominion, took up land with his brother, the late Mr. William Gower, in the Whenuakura Block between 40 and 50 years ago, subsequently acquiring a large block of land in the Mangamingi district. The late Mr. Gower who was of a quiet and unassuming disposition, was a keen sportsman and always ready to support local sports bodies. He married some 12 years ago Miss Nora Sheahan, third daughter of the late Mr. J. Sheahan, an old .settler of the Whenuakura Block, ’by whom he is survived, together with one son, Master Wm. Gower. — Press.