PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 9 August 1930, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. A. C. W. Mantell-Harding was admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court by Mr. Justice Blair, on the motion of Mr. C. W. Tringham. A resident of Pembroke, Lako Wauaka, writing on Sunday last to a friend in Christchurch, stated that extraordinarily severe frosts were being experienced, and that in some cases hen eggs had been frozzen solid. Bishop F. A. Bennett, who recently underwent a severe operation, will be a. passenger by the Tahiti for Rarotonga on Tuesday next for the purpose of recruiting his health. Mr. G. i.. Bonnington, whose death' was reported from Christchurch yesterday, was well known in Wellington golf* ing circles. Born in Nolson in 1804, the son of Mr. George Bonnington, he was I at his death a director of the Christ-1 church firm of George Bonnington, Ltd.' He was much interested in music, and j was one of the first conductors of the '■ Woolston Band, in which he was eornettist, and had been associated with Christehurch musical societies for 40 years. A keen bowler, he was a member of the Canterbury Bowling Club. As a younger man, he was an active cricketer, and was, indeed, interested in all outdoor sports. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity. Mr. Bonnington leaves one sou, Mr. Roland Boniihigton, of Lowcliff, Ashburton, and three daughters, Mrs. j V. Pike, of Tiniaru, and Miss Hilda and Miss Beryl Bonuington, of Christchurch.