PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9693, 18 January 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr J. Milne secretary of the Wellington Farmers' Meat Company, Ltd., will leave Masterton to-mor-row, on a brief visit to Auckland. A representative public meeting ;at Auckland yesterday decided to present Mr H. W. Northcroft, S.M., ■on the occasion of his retirement, with a public testimonial in recognition of his ability, uprightness, and unwavering integrity displayed ♦ him during the past fifty years soldier, gold mines warden, and oupendiary Magistrate. Rukarei Kingi, one of the chiefs of the Ngatimoe tribe, died at Greytown on Sunday hst. He had been ' suffering from rheumatic fever, and . was bedridden for two years, in his day he was a good athlete, and won many sprint races.He was a goodEngliah scholar, and was held in respect by his Dsopla There will ba a tangi at Papawai on an extensive scale. Rukarei Kingi was about fifty years j of age at his death. ' Another of the Maori War veterans passed away yesterday morning, in the pprsin of Mr Thomas Davey, at Wellington. Mr Davey, who was in hsa 77th year, served with the 40th Bfegiment of the Line, principally in Most ot his later life was spent in DunediD, but for the past seven years he lived in Wellington. He leaves widow and one son. Mr P. H. Davey, a well-known member of the Wellington Rowing Club. The Hon. G. Fowlds returned to Wellington from New Plymouth on Saturday. The Hon. Di Findlay is at the Hermitage, the Hon. D. Burido -at Rangiora, the Hon. R. McKenzie at Wakefield, the Hon, T. Mackenzie at Lake Te Anau, the Hon. A. T. Ngata at Tokomaru Bay. The other ministers are in Wellington. The Hon. R. McKenzie, who opened a new post office at Wakefield, yesterdav, is expected back in Wellington to-day or Wednesday. The Hon. T Mackenzie will attend the conference on the frozen meat trade to be held at Christchurch on ,27th and 28th January.