PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10269, 22 June 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr G. R. Sykes left Masterton for Palmerston North yesterday, to attend the first annual' meeting of the Lincoln Sheep Breeders' Association, of which he is the interim Secretary. The Hawera Star announces the death of Dr. G. H. Brown, of Hawera. He had not been very well for some little time but the progress of the disease from which he was suffering was at) the last rapid, and he passed away early on Sunday morning. He leaves a widow and two children. Mr Arthur H. Vile has already been nominated for re-election to the Wellington Education Board by the Hukanui, Lansdowne, Ihuraua Valley, Greytown, and Belvedere School Committees. Mr R. Buxton, late of Masterton, and now local representative for the Vacuum Oil Company, Palmerston North, has received notice of his transfer to Oluistohurch. He will take up his duties in Christdhurch at tthe .beginning of next month. The many friends of Mr' James Hanley, one of the oldest and most respected platelayers on the Masterj ton section of railway, will regret to hear that he was seized wwtih a sudden fainting fit while at work yesterday j and was taken to his. home in. a rather serious condition. Dir Cowie,, wdio attended. Han, reported that he was somewhat easier last niglht.' j -'Mr J. Mli.W'etbn, of Canterbury, has been elected President of the i Dairy" Factory Managers' Associaj tibn. Messrs D. Kelly (Konini), and Irving (Greytown) are among the ; Vioe-Presi dents. Thus the Manawatu Standard of yesterday : Among ihe visitors to the Winter Show yesterday was Mr James McGregor, a very old Wairarapa colonist, who lias made it a I point to visit the dairy show at Pal-' j merston for the last two or three I years. He was greatly delighted ' with the whole exhibition.