PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 250, 20 September 1929, Page 6

PERSONAL.

The many friends of the Mayoress, Mrs A. J. Graham, who is seriously ill, would be pleased Ao learn of an eai-ly improvement in her condition.

Mr Z. T. Walker of Fitzroyj New Plymouth, who gassed away this week, was well known in bowling circles, ancl for some time was. president of the Fitzroy Bowling Club. Born in Neison in 1854, he took up farming in the Maruia hot springs district, and for the past 14 years had lived in retirement at New Plymouth. At the meeting of the Board of Governors of the Palmerston North High Schools, last evening, the rector of the Boys’ School (Mr J. Murray) reported that Messrs. Millar and Giorgi, Messrs. B. and C. Turner and another donor, who wished to remain anonymous, had presented silver cups in connection with the sports of the school. The Government Gazette announces that the Board of Maori Ethnological Research has been constituted as follows: —Sir Apirana Ngata (chairman), Sir Maui Pomare, Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, Archdeacon H. W. Williams, Dr. P. H. Buck, Messrs. T. Makitanara, P. N. Jones, G. P. Newton, H. E. Holland, Elsdon Best and H. D. Skinner.

Mr L. A. Paisli, British. Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, accompanied by Mrs Paisli, arrived in Palmerston Nbrth yesterday on a brief business trip. They were taken for a motor drive round the district by Mr A. E. Mansford. This afternoon Mr and Mrs Paisli returned to Wellington.

In recording with deep regret the death of Mr Evan Morgans, who passed away at a private hospital after a short illness, the Dannevirke News states that another link with the pioneers of the coast district has been severed. The late Mr Morgans, who was 74 years of age, was born at Elan Valley. Rhaydir, Wales, and arrived in Auckland in 1873 when a youth of 18 years of age. He came south and worked for Mr J. D. Canning, Oakburn, Porangahau, finally taking up land for himself, being the first settler on the Wimbledon block. The late Mr Morgans was identified with farming for 44 years at Wimbledon, where he rendered helpful assistance to his fellow settlers. He was essentially a farmer deeply interested in stock, but he found time to serve on the Weber County Council, and he took an intelligent if quiet interest in all public movements affecting the district. He was held in esteem in the coast district where he occupied one of the pioneer homesteads. Deceased is survived by his widow and five sons, all resident in the Wimbledon district, while in addition to two single daughters three are married— Mrs A. Richardson (TTmutaoroa), Mrs W. Bassett (PalmersTon North), and 1 Mrs Cutbush (Palmerston North).