PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1939, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr W. Duffill, Eketahupa, is on a visit to Wellington.

Messrs F. Lanauzi (Tinui) and E. Davies (Bideford) arc among guests at the Prince of Wales Hotel. Masterton.

Mr J. B. Cotterill, Labour M.P. for Wanganui, is among those who have enlisted in the New Zealand force for service at home or overseas.

The many friends of Mrs Eric Fowler, Upper Plain, will regret to learn that she is an inmate of Glenwood Hospital, Masterton. News has been received of death in Dunedin last evening, of Mr John Rich, formerly of Hawke’s Bay. The Rev E. J. Rich, who is a son of Mr Rich, has left for Dunedin. Mr Stanley G. White, son of Mrs J W White, Rahui, Havelock North, has joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Mr was trained by the Hawke’s Bay and East Coast Aero Club and is the present club captain. In 1934 he flew his own machine from England to Australia, and while in Britain he served for a time with the Royal Air Force, obtaining a shortterm commission.

The death occurred on Saturday of Mr David Bishell, aged 90, a pioneer agriculturist and stud sheep breeder, states a Press Association message from Blenheim. Coming to Marlborough 66 years ago from Caythorpe, Lincolnshire, he established the wellknown Lincoln stud on a property which he named after his native village. He also bred Romneys and Southdowns, but the stud’s principal success has been with Lincolns, several sheep of this breed having been recently acquired for an English breeder in the county in which they originated. Besides a long record of service on local bodies, Mr Bishell claimed to be the first farmer in New Zealand to grow clover for extraction of the seed, thus laying the foundation of the province’s small seeds industry.