Personal Items.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18241, 27 November 1924, Page 9

Personal Items.

A London cablegram announces that the .Prince of Wales will sail for South Africa on March 23th. 3lr C. E. Jones, of the firm of Jones, McCrostie Co., Ltd.. has been appointed a Justice tf the Peace. Mr J. K. Maloney, Christchurch ,leffc on Tuesday night for Auckland where ho will remain for a week. Mi- Trviug Carney returned to Christchurch yesterday morning by the ferry steamer from Wellington. Sir John Roberts was a passenger from Wellington by the ferry steamer yesterday morning. The llev. W. B wer Black, LL.B., of Carterton, wi 1 bo inducted to the charge of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Christchurch. this afternoon. Mr A. S. Taylor, chairman of the Tramway Board that has just gone out of existen r e, who been on a visit to England and the Continent, returns to Christchurch this mrijing.

Messrs A. H. Hoyles (Wellington), J. J. Johnston (Cairns, Queensland), 0. Sommer (Amsterdam), C. Robinson (Wellington), and R. McC'askcy (Wellington) are at the Clarendon Hotel.

Recent arrivals at Warner's Hotel include: Messrs T. S. Lavcoek (Dunedin), G. W. Clarke (Dunedin), J. H. Young (U.S.A.), F. R. Midgley (Melbourne), W. A. Robinson (Dunedin). T. C. Glendining (Dunedin), and C. M, Paul (Melbourne). Among the guests at the United Service Hotel are: Messrs J. T. Martin (Invercargill), K. I). Whelan (Wellington), M. Archer (Wellington). L. T. Andreae (Christchurch), J. H. Boyd (Auckland), It. Macaulay (Temuka), I). Stowell (Timaru) and Dr. C. C. Paterson (Timaru). Mr 0. B. Pemberton. who will bo remembered by litany in Canterbury as secretary of tho Canterbury A. and P. Association for several yenrs, has taken up a citrus orchard at Henderson, about eight niiles out of Auckland. Writing to a friend in Christchurch. Mr Pemberton states that tho nomine season promises well, and bis roishbours predict that he will'pet rtn average of eight, cases of lemons from his two hundred trees.

The unveiling of a handsome monulr.ent erected in th> Pahiatua cemetery, to the memory of tho late. Very lie v. Dean Thomas MeKenna. for many years parish priest (f Pahiatua, took plscs yesterday, 'l he ceremony was performed by the Rev. Father Clancy, of Napier. There was a large assemblage from various parts of the district and many visiting clergy. Prior to the oeremonv, Requiem Mass wn-s celebrated in St. Brigid's Church, the celebrant being Mnnsignor McKennn. of Masterton, brother of the late- Dean.

Our Auckland correspondent, telegraphs: Two interesting passengers by the Ulimaron from Sydney were WingCommander John Dunville, C.8.E., late of the Royal Air Force, and Mrs Dunville. During the war, Commander Dunville was in command of the naval section of kite balloons, for observation purposes. In 1919, after demobilisation had been carried out, Commander Dunville, who received his decoration in 1917, retired from tho Air Force. Mrs Dunville, who is an enthusiastic balloonist, was then presented with a new spherical "froo" balloon to replaco the one she lent to the Air Force during the war, and she boasts proudly that she is the only woman owning a balloon in England to-day. She has made over sixty ascents without mishap, and has several times crossed the English Channel.