PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 50, 28 August 1934, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

The death occurred at Oamaru yestorday of Mr. Ebenezer Piper, aged 78, says a Press Association message. Mr. Piper was born at Letham, Forfarshire, Scotland, and came to New Zealand as » young man. He took up teaching near Oamaru and /it Green Island, being headmaster at Green Island. After retiring ho acted as secretary of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association, the Malay Rubber Company, and the Oamaru Fire Board.

Mr. and Mrs. llutcMuson (Dunedin), Mr, and Mrs. G. Wilkin (Christchureh), Messrs. Shirtcliffie and J. R. Flatman (Timaru), A. G. Brown, A. Suter, C. H. Green, G. A. Bowie, and A. Lunn (Auckland), T. Mitchell (Whangarei), W, Searlo (Hamilton), B. Tripp (Timaru), J. Tupp (Lovell's Flat), F. Rostro (England), and H. E. Turner (Christchurch), arc at the Midland Hotel.

Mr. E. 0. Sheild, of Wellington, who has been awarded the first Bishop Hailfield theosophical scholarship, will leave tomorrow-evening for Auckland to connect with the Rangitane, -which sails for England on Friday. The scholarship is tenable at Queen's College, Oxford, for theosophical study in preparation for ordination as a minister of the. Church of England, and Mr. Sheild will be absent from New Zealand for at least two years..One of the conditions of the scholarship is that each holder must serve five years ia the 'Wellington diocese- if called upon to do so after hi* ordination.

Messrs. E. P. Parkersou ■ and S. Ringer (Auckland), H. L. Paterson (Dunodin), R. Oakley and W. Bryant (Ashburton), J. F. Thompson (Greytown), Hugh Smith and Henry Smith (Gore), J. W. Davis (Nelson), W. Mller (Invereargill), J. Fisher (Otatine), J. T. Martin (Bluff), W. S. Waugh and W. J. Hansen (Kimbolton), J. Forrestal (Taranaki), and V. P. Mannix (Christchureh) are at the Empire Hotel.

Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Worsp (Whangarei), Mr. and Mrs. J. Spenco (London), Messrs. C. E. Martin (Rotorua), J. I).; Smith (Palmerston North), D. Haiges (Melbourne), E. T. Recce (Christ* church), and J. M. Caughey (Auckland) are at the Hotel St. George.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Hewitt (Manga-* mairc), Mr. and Mrs. Gascoyne (Marae-t kakaho), Mr. and Mrs. D. Jone* (Christehurch), Messrs, B. Dalrymple (Otaki), C. D. Runcimau (Leviu), R« T. Jowsey (Bulls), M. L. Matches (Tait hape), K. Claude- (Tairau), V. Scott (Te Kuiti), N. Seymour and J. Linklater (Palmerston ' North), A. Hainil-' ton '(Mount Messenger), F. N. Be'amisli (Hastings), R. M. Chadwick (Napier), S. D. Reeves, C. Williams, and E. R. Black (Gisborne), H. A. . Harcombe (Masterton), C. S. Taylor, W. H. Nicholson, and H. M. Cleland (Christ ■* church), G. A. Simpson (Nelson), J^ C. Begg (Dunedin), D. W. Westmere (Canterbury), and E. Hay (Pigeott Bay) are at the Royal Oak Hotel.

Messrs. G. P. Horsburgh (Hawera),C. E. Dempsey and J. S. Jenkinsou, (Palmerston North), F. Jobson (Gis-i borne), A. Jobson (Opoutama), H. Dun-> dcrdale (Masterton), H. Marshall (Dunedin), F. Jarrett, C. E. Boon, T. A. Woodward, E. H. Thomas, and W.. Warren (Christchurch), A. Bctts (Nel-* son), N. Dunn (Ashburton), R. Snedi den, W. A. Hanewicke, and G. Math<H son (Auckland) are at the Gran*1 Hotel.