PERSONAL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LII, Issue 8628, 8 July 1924, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr R. A. Adams, of Auckland, has been: appointed secretary and engineer to. the Bluff Harbour Board at £750 a year. Dr Frank Hay, Inspector-General of Mental Hospitals, and Mrs/ Hay, left by the Rimutaka on Sunday on a visit to England. 1 A Londom message says Sir Japies Allen, lias accepted two years’ extension of his term as High Commissioner for New' Zealand. The death is announced from Oamaru of Mr David Lauder. He was a retired flourmiller and in Ireland and Co. The Hon. Brinsley Plnnket, son of the late Lord Plunket. formerly Governor of New Zealand, left Auckland by the Rimutaka for England on, Sunday. ID- has been residing in Canterbury for some time. A Washington/ cable says Air Calvin Coolidge, the youngest son ol President Coolidge, is critically ill. lie is suffering from blood poisoning in the leg, following a scratched blister. The doctors have practically abandoned hope. Two ladies, Afiss -Gillespie and Nursing Sister Barker, long and favourably known in. King George AHospital, Rotorua, left recently. Afiss: Gillespie, a. masseuse, resident for three years, left on June 30 to return home; Afiss Barker, who has Ibsen ou the staff ior three, & a-half years, left last Thursday for Taumarunui, where she has been appointed matron for six months.’

The many friends throughout the Dominion of the Rev. John Dawson, general secretary of the/ New Zealand Alliance, will regret to learn that he is at present an inmate of a private hospital in Wellington. Afr Dawson returned recently from a, visit to the Islands undertaken partly for health-re-cruiting purposes. The result was not so satisfactory as Ids friends could have desired, and, on his return, an operation was found necessary. The operation was performed on Tuesday last, and it is reported that Afr Dawson is now tirogressing satisfactorily. 'flic death at the age of 82 years of Afr W. T. Glasgow at Dunedin removes a gentleman well known, in New Zealand. Air Glasgow was formerly secretary of the Customs Department. Born in India, Afr Glasgow was educated at Belfast. He came to New Zealand in ISGI, when he at once became a clerk in the Customs Department. Ho was appointed warehouse keeper at Dunedin in 1809, and in 1871 was appointed officer in charge of the New Zealand Distillery at. that place. In 1879, Afr Glasgow was examining officer at. Invercargill, and the next year subcollector at Auckland. He was. however, appointed chief clerk of the Customs Department the same year, from nhich lie retired in 1900 on superannuation.