PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1931, Page 7

PERSONAL NOTES

The death is announced from London of the Duke of Somerset. Miss T. Newman left this morning on a holiday visit to Christchurch. Miss A. Ryan TefT this morning on a holiday visit to Christchurch. # • . Mr Harold Jackson left this morning on return to Wellington. Mr E. Lawn, Engineer, Telegraph Department, Wellington, is on a visi to the West Coast. Mr. A. L. Smith, waggon supply officer at Christchurch, has been appointed acting-stationmaster at Greymouth. Mrs T. Phelan and Mrs L. McMinn have left for Nelson on a holiday Vlsit. The death is announced from Sydney of Mr William Cameron, Nationalist Member of the Assembly since 1918. He was aged fifty-three. The engagement is announced of Constance Alice, only daughter of Mrs C. Pearce, Wanganui, and the late Mr. E. Reid, to Percy Smail, only son of Mr. and Mrs G. Grant, Greymouth. Guests at Revington’s include: — Messrs J. C. Fairbairn, J. L. Harrison, J. McNair (Christchurch), H. L. Cummings, E. H. Lawn, L. ■H. Jenkins (Wellington), W. §pong (Dunedin). The death is announced from London of Mr Thomas Cooper Gotch. He was President of the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists since 1913, and a Vice-President of the RoyalWest of England Academy. Lieutenant-Colonel Eleanor Swain, the newly-appointed Women’s Social Secretary for the Salvation Army in New Zealand, has arrived at Welling- ' ton. /'

Members of the staff of the Greymouth Post and Telegraph Office met this morning to farewell Mr G. Clark, Chief Postmaster, who left to-day on transfer to Oamaru. On making the presentation of'* a walking stick and a set of gramophone records, Mr R. S. Wheeler voiced the regret of the staff at losing so able a Postmaster as Mr Clark ,had been, and referred to cordial relations that had always existed between him and his staff. Others wlio paid, a . tribute to Mr Clark s qualities were Messrs J. W. Graham, postal supervisor, S. R. Shannon, overseer of the line branch, J. C. Fairbairn, District Telegraph Engineer, Christchurch, H. C. Rowe, supervisor of the clerical staff, J. J. Coyle, and M. K. V. Sheard. In responding, Mr Clark re- ' ferred to the fine spirit of loyal cooperation that the staff had always displayed and to the high standard of efficiency that it had reached.