PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 50, 27 August 1932, Page 15

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. Louis Whitcombe arrived thismorning from the South. Mr. D. G. Sullivan, M.P. for Avon* arrived from the South this morning. My. H. Fell, managing director of;^ tho Producers' and Citizens' Co-opera-* tive Assurance Co., Ltd., Sydney is' staying at the Hotel St. George. The Press Association announces the death at Chicago of Mrs. Edith Eocke-' teller McCorinick, daughter of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, sen. ' The employees of the Wellington waterworks Department met recently; to bid farewell to Mr. ~D. X.: Cameroa on the occasion of his retirement on. superannuation after nearly 40 years* service with the Wellington City Corporation. In the unavoidable absences of the overseer, Mr. G. Tinney, tho assistant overseer, Mr. W. Heaclem ■ spoke m eulogistic terms of the long and faithful service rendered by Mr*; Cameron, and ou behalf of his- fellow-.' employees Mr. Meaclem presented Mr Cameron with a leather travelling baev and travelling rug, assuring .him that, he had the best wishes of all for many; r'es¥' S m WMCh t0 Cn^°y M? well-earne^ Among the guests at the Hotel St« George are Messrs. J. W.Mitchell {Sydney) W. H. : E. Judd (Melbourne), C. K. Gamble (Melbourne), and'G H. Young (Christehureh). . . . ;' A&- Md Mrs. G. A. Perm (Ingle. ™d- *Ir- A. J. Cross ' (Hamilton), Mr. A. H. Boyes (Dunedia), Mr. and Mrs AH Boyes (Wanganui), Messrs. ,\s\ P ? IDg aney)> Jas. Butler (Melbourne), and. B. D. Gallon. (Yorkshire), are staying at the Ebyal Oak Hotel. • . ■ „• Visitors to Wellington staying at tha Empire Hotel include Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Stevens (Palmerston North), Messrs. J. Jewell (Christehureh), H. W Taylor (Auckland), E. C. Brown (Auckland), E. Jeffries (Blenheim), and J W McCoy (Auckland). : The death has occurred at Gisborua of Mr. William Bruce, :aged 88j a retired merchant and farmer (states a Press Association telegram). He was the last surviving member of the original small grazing- run holders in the Gisborne- district. The deceased was born, in Glasgow, and first came to NewZealand in 1864 in the Helenslea, Ha settled in Auckland as a contractor's clerk, and later tried his luck on the gold-fields. He then returned to-. Glasgow. After the., successful estab-: lishment of a wholesale oil busines*: there, Mr. Bruce returned to New Zea-; land, settling in. Gisborney ;where h%t: resided up to the time of: his death.