PERSONAL

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1202, 12 September 1927, Page 4

PERSONAL

Afr Jeffs, who had been' in the Fcilding Hospital for a delicate operation, lias returned to his home, when? lie will recuperate for a. short time.

Alany personal friends of Airs AI. J. Johnston, daughter of Captain Cargill, on ix of the founders of Otago, tendered their respects e»t the attainment of her 97th birthday at- Dunedin last week.

Miss Agues Aferrington, daughter of the minister of First Clench, in Dunedin, has just left for the mission hospital at Shillong, i.i Assam. India, to marry Dr. Charles Kwiaid North.

-• Private cable advice lias been received from Sydney of the death if Air William Edward Woods. The late .Hr Woods was for many years in business as a. chemist in Wellington, whene'he began to promote Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

At the annual conference of the New Zealand Journalists’ Association held in Wellington on. Saturday, Mr F. Ut-ting, of the Auckland Sun, was elected president and Air AI. E. Lyons, of the Christchurch Sun, vicepresident.

Dr. E. Kidd, -of the British Scientific and Industrial Research Department, arrived in Wellington to-day. Ho is recognised as a great authority on cool storage and has been working at tlie Cambridge Low Temperature Research Station. T)r. Kidd lias spent the last two months in South Africa and Australia in connect inn with the cool storage of fruit, dairy produce, and meat. On Wednesday hie will meet the Fruitgrowers’ Federation, and will proceed) to Nelson on Thursday night.