PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 November 1929, Page 7

PERSONAL NOTES

The death is announced from London of Jack Morris, at the age of 84 years, Britain’s oldest golf professional. He was for fifty years a professional at Hoylake. -

Mr, W. Sterling, headmaster of the Blackball School, is retiring at the end of the present year. He will take up his residence in Christchurch.

1 A Washington cablegram announced the death, during the night, in his sleep, of Father Francis Londoru, director of the Georgetown University Seismological Observatory.

The engagement is announced of Roland- (Toby), youngest son of Mr and Mrs Albert Fairhall and Miss Alice Brown, youngest daughter of Mrs Brown, of Marsden Road.

Mrs Lohmann (sen.) and Mr W. Lohmann, Marlborough Street, left by to-day’s express i for Christchurch, where Mrs Lohmann will enter the Public H jitsL,

Recent arrivals the Albion Hotel include: Mr and Mrs C. Voss (Nelson), Messrs W. Muir (Harihari), W. M. Randle, W. Inglis (Christchurch), W. A. Joiner, P. G. Marden (Wellington), Holmes (Nelson).

' Professor Hugh Stewart, formerly Professor of Classics at Canterbury College, and since 1926 Professor of Latin at the University of Leeds, has been appointed Principal of University College, Nottingham. The death has occurred at Dunedin, of Mr James Cleghorn, aged 76 years, formerly manager of the Glendermid * Tannery. At the time of the Great War he organised the hides commandeer on behalf of the Government. Guests at Revington’s include: Sir Lennon Raws (Melbourne), Messrs J. R. Olliver, W. H. A. Penseler (Wellington), R. C. Todhunter (London), R. A. Punter (Melbourne), H. Ferris Brown (Petone), J. H. Stuart, J. Kerrigan, S. L. Marks (Christchurch), J. R. Leggo '' T elson), Mr and Mrs P. N. Chartc Nelson).

Mr and Mrs Ernest Clough, who will leave Greymouth on Tuesday, for Sydney, were met last evening by about two hundred fellow residents of Blaketown in the Blaketown Hall, at a farewell function. Mr C. Hodgkinson, on behalf of the Blaketown ratepayers, presented Mr Clough with a solid leather suitcase and Mrs Clough with a box of handkerchiefs. Mr Clough has been president of the Blaketown. Football Club since 1915? and on behalf of that body, Mr F. Sadler (Secretary) handed Mr Clough a suitably inscribed gold medal, and Mrs Clough‘two silver serviette rings. Eulogistic references were made to Mr Clough’s , connection with Blaketown’s progress, Mr Clough suitably replying. A pleasant social evening followed, a euchre tournament being won by Mrs Walton, with Mrs Jackson second.