PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 151, 30 June 1925, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

is 'ill ..invhospital,"was; granted. leave \bt^absence from}ihe\Hquse'pf:Eepresenjtatives. last' nigli£;;' ;'JMr;-'"J;^'-R.-'" Corrigan jWas granted'.fouf-'days-Qeave^ of absence .on account of urgent public; business:- . >

-•■■"Thei-Hon:'"R;/ F/ Bollard ■ (Minister of j.lnternal./;Affairs)// operied /.the: Hawera: .;Show yesterday. 'He/will return to Wel,Jington:i6:riiorrbw.//; '//'i /;//:;,: V.-'.-" /

H.^2;- ~-£-\ St^nley/Z-Warwick \\ has'/beeri'. ■ appointed elocutionary .judge/-;' for.;',the iHawera': Competitions, :to be held.Yin. iAugust.: ;;/;' v■/; :'/■■ -'■;;:/./•;;■ .- ■■:■■:■/>■.■

t " Mr.-L.-Bi. Gilmour,-; recently: a. part-. 'Her of the firm of 'Messrs.: Keesing' and ■■ Gilmour,. solicitors, . .Wellington,;- ■ has .jbeen appointed to the staff-of the Pub:lio Trust Office, Wellington!;?■•::--'-/;:

,i -A cable message from; Honolulu states i-fhit\Mr;,A//C: Gaughey, of; Auckland; .who has been active/at all.the'.prelim-jl'iriai-y meetings" of,'the" Iris'titute/bf Pa'cir'ficßelatious, has been.taken to Queen's j Hospital, suffering .from; ;/physical';'co 1i lapse./; :He.was:found ill/on/tKePuria;;hou school campus; by other/members of a /the* Institute. / ; ."... './;'/ ./ ::; ,

■'•■ t Alfr-ed-''P'Td, a very;old resident iof Dunedin, died at:his daughter's re'sij dence, Sherbourne.: street,; Christchurch, ( on. Thursday. last,: aged .95 - years.- -:. De--i:Sefs?d?;was a .natiye.'of. Essex,-England, .^and. was/a well-known:builder, and con-' .tractor, /of schools "and other ..public.buildings; in .the/Otagb: district ; 3 forty., years /ago. -!- 'He is: snrvived" by three sons, Mr. W. 'Bird,/M.D., Chief ';Inspector.. of Schools, Wellington; :ln...spector "A. S. Bird,/.of* the Police 1 De;p:irtment, InvercargilljandMr: A.Bird, , of' Christchurch;; and . two/ daughters, /Mrs. W. ,D. Orchard, of Dunedin; arid /Mrs. -D. ,M. . Davitt, of : Christclmrch; also twelve grandchildren and two great,Y.gi«indchildren.-' Mrs. Bird predeceased. Tier husband fifteen years ago. The' late .Mr. Bird lived,during the reigns of five sovereigns. ' ; ; / , .. ■.-'■-.