PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1932, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. B. A. Anderson will leave forth* South to-night!

The Hon. L. M. Isitt, M.L.C., arrived from, the South this morning.

The. Speaker of the, House of jßepreaent'atives (Sir. Charles Statham) ar» rived from tho South this-morning.

Mr. and Mrs. P. A., de la Perrelle a.r> rived from the South to-day aid left by the Marama for Sydney.

Captain A. S. Dalgleish, of the Union Steam Ship Company, arrived .thi* morning from the South and left by the Marama this afternoon for Sydney.

Beference was made by the Mayor at the City Council meeting last night to the death r»f Mr. Ai J. Paterson, for. many years assistant engineer to tha city, and later City Engineer, and 4 motion recording tho council's regret and the desire to convey to his relative! | tho-council's sympathy, was carried lit the customary way.

The lato Mr. Charles Blenkhorn, whose death at Levin was reported ye* terday, was a native of Nageborough, Yorkshire, England, where he waa^bor* in 1899. He came to Now Zealand at the^ age of 15 years and engaged iat various pursuits in Coromandel. ; He. was a member of .the old-Coromandel Bifles, and volunteered for active service in South Africa, leaving with the First Contingent on the a.s. Waiwera on the 21st October, 1899. Returning with tho "Firsts" to New Zealand by the s.s. Orient in January, 1901, th» late Mr. Blenkborn was one of twelv* of ,his contingent who'were given commissions in the Sixth Contingent,,and they immediately transferred to the s.s. Cornwall, which was sailing that ,day for South Africa with the "Sixths" on board. On returning" to New'Ze** land Mr. Blenkhorn resided in Palmer-, ston North, where he raaried Mis* fnder, afterwards settling in Levin, practising as a barrister and solicitor.

The Oamaru Borough Council lait night unanimously decided to appoint Mr. John Branthwaite, Assistant Town Clerk, to the Town Clerkship,' succeeding Mr. Charles Kent, who has retired' after many years' service, states a Frees Association telegram. Among the guests at the Midland Hotel are Mr. and Mrs. Puflett (Hastings), Messrs. G. C. Davis (Sydney), |E. Cobbe (Chateau Tongariro), and J.1I Fotheringham (Dunediti). • Visitors to Wellington staying at the Grand Hotel include 'Mr. and Mrs. Donald Grant (Timarn),- Messrs. J. Gray (Dimedin), G. Gray (Dtaedin), D. Praser (Dannevirke), A. E. Smith (Invercargill), and B. Palmer (Auckland). ' % ■ . . ■

Mr. and Mrs. A. Scott (Napier), Messrs. W. Craig (Gisborne), C. J. Morrison (Christehurch), George Baildon, (Auckland), J. Bnll (HuntenitTe), G., Martella (Blenheim), A. B. Simpson' (Palmerston North)", and Charles Eich (Sydney), are among the gneats at the Eoyal Oak Hotel.

Mr. H. C. Cable (Hamilton), Mr. N. S. Walker (Auckland), Mr. T. V. Kennepeck (U.S.A.), Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Shilts (Akron, Ohio), and Mt. F. A. Goldingham (Palmerston North), Mt staying at the Hotel St. George.