PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 251, 21 September 1929, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Owing to indifferent health Mr Horace Cunninghame is at present spending a holiday at Russell. Mr David Jones, M.P., was unanimously re-elected chairman of the Meat Producers’ Board yesterday for the ensuing twelve months. The many friends of the Mayoress, Mrs A. J. Graham, will be pleased to learn that there is a slight improvement in her condition to-day. Mr H. Blandford, of Palmerston North, who has been on a trip to the Old Country, is a passenger by the Remuera, due in a fortnight. Mr Blandford did not enjoy the best of health in England and is returning earlier than he originally intended. The death occurred yesterday morning at his residence, Island Bay, Wellington, of Mr Thomas Teague Stephens, who was for many years employed in the Public Trust Office. He was officer in charge of wills and trust estates. The late Mr Stephens was 86 years of age, and retired on superannuation in 1909. Mr W. B. Matheson, Professor Belshaw, Mr G. Lawn, M.A., Miss Vera Hay, M.Sc., Miss C. West-Watson, 8.A., Miss M. Seaton, and Mr L. G. Hogwood, 8.A., New Zealand delegates to the third biennial conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations, to be held in Kyoto, Japan, from October 23, left by the Ulimaroa for Sydney yesterday. Mr P. C. R. Purcell, aged 44, licensee of one of the hotels at Tauranga, died yesterday morning from pneumonia (states a Press Association telegram). At the time of his death Mr Purcell was president of the Bay of Plenty Hunt Club. The Waikato hounds and huntsmen had arrived for the first meet of the season, which was to have been held yesterday, but it was cancelled. The death has occurred in Tauranga of Mr James Farrelly at the age of 73 years. Mr Farrelly was born in Ireland and arrived with his parents at Wellington w'hen he was eight years old. He farmed with success in the Pahiatua district, and later moved to the Waikato and Paeroa. About eight months ago he retired and went to Tauranga. He leaves a widow, six sons and four daughters. They are Messrs James, Edward iand Patrick, Manuwahe; Herbert, Hamilton; Frank, Tauranga; and Arthur, Auckland; and Mesdames Hansen, Paeroa; Ogden, Palmerston North; Sweet, Turua; and Bramble, Mamaku. One 6on, Lawrence, was killed in the Great War.