PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 20778, 28 April 1931, Page 9

PERSONAL

Mr and Mrs A. M. Sidey left this morning by train to visit their daughter at'Hastings. Mr Hr Turner, called to Wellington on business, went by the 11.35 train this morning. Messrs H. Harris and D. Spedding are on their way to Wellington for the annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union. Mr and Mrs W Cardno, of Caversham, were farewelled on the Dunedin station this .morning. They and their daughters are making a trip to England. Mr H. W. Brodie, chief passenger traffic manager, Canadian Pacific Railways, Eastern division, came to Dunedin with his wife on Thursday last and are going to Queenstown tomorrow. Mr J. K. Simpson, of Lawrence, left for Christchurch by train to-day. After an absence of ten months through severe illness, Mr J, Boothroyd has returned to Dunedin. The announcement of the death of Mr Walter Dalgleish at Gisborne will be regretted by many persons in this part of the dominion. The funeral was at Hastings on Sunday. Mr Dalgleish was in the service of the Agricultural Department for over thirty years and was stock inspector in the south for a long time. Mr 11. K. Ireland, of Oamaru, has accepted a seat on the hoard of directors of The Perpetual Trustees Estate and Agency Company of New Zealand Limited. The death is announced (says a Press Association telegram from Wellington) of Mr Hugh Forrest, aged sixty-eighc years. He was a teacher of music in that city for more than forty years. Ho is survived by his widow and a brother, Mr William Forrest, of Auckland. A Christchurch Press Association telegram announces the death of Mr Henry Francis Stevens, aged seventythree, founder of Stevens and Co., wholesale druggists. Mr J. H., Howell, director of the Wellington Technical College, has resigned, giving as his reason that ho thought the time had come to make way for a younger man. At a meeting of the Board of Governors last night (says a Press Association telegram) Jio refused to reconsider his decision. For twenty-five years ho has been a director of technical education, formerly at Christchurch and later at Wellington. The death occurred at Christchurch on Friday last of Senior-sergeant John Joseph O’Grady. The deceased was born in Victoria, and after leaving school embarked on a schoolmaster’s career. In 1901 he came to New Zealand, and started as a contractor in the Wairarapa district. He joined the police in 1905, and was sent to Christchurch In the following year he was transferred to Ashburton, and after three or four years there was appointed constable in charge of the Geraldine district. Among those persons registered at the Grand Hotel are Miss K. Rowan, Mr G. Willis (London), Mr L. J. Duffy (Sydney), Miss J. Bent (Melbourne); Dr and Mrs F. A. Bett, Miss M. Andrew (Nelson), Mr P. Andrew (Wairarapa), Mr J. Cruse (Wellington), Mr and Mrs D. T. Smith, Mrs C. M, Diamond, Mr 11. W. Midgley (Christchurch), Mr J. R. Wilson (Tawanni), and Mr R. D. Lumsdeu (Invercargill). The guest list at the City Hotel includes Miss M. Carmichael (Mataura Island), Mr S. A. Kelly (Auckland), Messrs H. Nunnerlev and S. Sinclair (Christchurch), and Messrs D. and J. Kilkelly (Invercargill).