PERSONAL.

Feilding Star, Volume 1, Issue 49, 10 December 1923, Page 4

PERSONAL.

THE GOVERNOR-G EN ERAL. The Governor-General, Lord J'ellicoe, sailed the Iron Duke in the Victoria Cruising Club's harbor races at Auckland on Saturday. lhs Excellency will leave for Cambridge to-morrow morning, where he will unveil the district war memorial and a memorial window in the Cambridge Anglican Church on the afternoon of the same day. He will be entertained by the Freemason's bodge during the evening. His Excellency will then proceed to Poiikawa, Ilawko's Hay, where he will he the guest of Mr it. Campbell. He will present the prizes at the breaking-up ceremonies of the Tona College and Wood-ford House at Have lock North on the evening of the L2th and loth December respectively. Lord Jel lime will unveil the war memorial at Taradaie, and visit, the Old Peoples Home at Parke Island on Sunday, December 10. Accompanied by the Hon. .Myrtle and Hon. Norah jelliooe, his Excellency will leave Hawke's Hay on .Monday, December 17, and is expected to arrive in Auckland on the following Tuesday

Cable advice records the death of Sir Thomas Devitt, shipowner" and Madame Meggie Albanesi, actress. Mr C. J. McLean, formerly assistant at Lyttoii-street school, has taken on the hoadniastership of tin- Raetihi school.

Mr ..>'. G. Raine, of Wellington, is seriously ill at Auckland, where he has to undergo an immediate operation.

At the annual meeting or the Manawatu and West Coast Caledonian Society on Saturday evening, Mr W. Little, of Phmmcrtoti, and Formerly of Palmerston North, was elected tlic first life member of the body.

Mr J. W. Whittaker, of Palmerston North, was, on Saturday, appointed clerk to the Pohanginn County Council.

Advice has been received or the death in Italy of Signor Raspom, whose line baritone voice gave suet) pleasure to those who heard the Sistine Choir a year ago.

The regular monthly visit of Mr Freeman, of Dairy and Freeman, Ltd., optical specialists, Palmerston North,, is set down for Tuesday next, December .11, at Mr Smither's jewellery store.