PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 October 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES

Mr P. and Miss Mahoney, of Wellington, who have been spending a few days holiday in Greymouth, return overland on Monday morning. Mr Philip Skoglund, town clerk of Stratford, who has been taking an extended holiday on account of ill-health, and who, had to undergo an operation in a private hospital in Christchurch last week, is, we,are pleased so learn, making satisfactory progress towards recovery. It is expected that Mr H. W. -Moss (manager for Messrs Johnson and Co., Wellington, brother to Mr G. T. Moss, of Greymouth) will be able next week to leave the private hospital in Wellington, of which he has been an inmate, as the result of having his hip broken in a collision which occurred between his dogcart and a delivery van some weeks ago. An Invercargill paper says:—The official farewell in honour of Mr W. T. Johnston, of the local Post and. Telegraph Department, who has been promoted to the position of chief clerk at Hokitika, lookplace in the operating room on Friday. In the presence of a large number of offi. oers, representing all branches, Mr King, Chief Postmaster, presented Mr Johnston with a gold timepiece, suitably inscribed, and in a manner that bespoke sincerity itself, congratulated the recipient and referred to his many good qualities as an officer, a friend, and a sportsman. Other speakers were Messrs Oxley (Telegraph Officer-in-Charge), Ferguson and Mulligan (Telegraph), Winter (linesman) and Miss Griinstone (Exchange). Mr Johnston, in a happy speech, responded, making special reference to the good-fellowship tfiat had existed betwen all officers during Ris 17 years’ service in the Invercargill office. Mrs P. M. Griffen and her daughters leave next week for Christchurch, where they intend to reside in future. They are an old and much respected Greymouth family, and their many friends felt that they could not allow them to take their departure without first presenting then, with a memento of “the Coast” and their friends here. • Accordingly a handsome set of fish-knives and two silver candlesticks were sent to Mrs Griffen, with a covering letter, in which it was stated that, out of consideration to her recent bereavement, the formal presentation had been dispensed with, but the subscribers wished her to accept the gifts as tokens of their esteem and regard for herself and daughters, all of whom would be greatly missed in Greymouth, where tuey had endeared themselves to all with whom they come in contact. The gifts, too, were intended to symbolise their good wishes for the future. Mrs Griffen desires to return her sincere thanks to her friends for the kind presentation made her.