PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 February 1932, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES

Mrs A. Skelton will leave to morrow, on return to Dunedin.

The death is announced from London from bronchial trouble, of George Gibbons Hearne, a former Kent County cricketer.

Guests at Revington’s include: — Miss N. ,E. Jones (Sumner), Messrs J. R. Leggo (Nelson), R. W. Hicky (Wellington).

The death is announced from London of Sil' Arthur Duckham. He was born in 1879. He was a prominent engineer, and specialised in furnace work, and carbonisation of coal.

The death has occurred of MajorGeneral Ernest Townshend Wallack, aged seventy-five. He had been living in retirement in Nelson for some years. He served in the South African and Great Wars.

Mr W. Robertson left, to-day, for Palmerston North, to represent the Greymouth Master Bakers’ Association at the annual conference of the New Zealand Master Bakers’ and Pastrycooks’ Association.

Mr. W. M. Garth leaves on Thursday for Wellington, where he will represent the Municipal Band at the Bands’ Conference, and the Greymouth Rifle Defence Club at the Rifle Championships. <

Miss Grace Bellamy, who has resigned from the staff of Thorpy’s, Ltd., after eight years’ service, was met on Saturday evening by the manager and staff, and was presented with a xylonite set. Mr P. F. Thorpy, who made the presentation, spoke in eulogistic terms of Miss Bellamy’s services, and regretted her departure.

A London cablegram stated that Mr MacDonald is likely to take a sea trip to Madeira or the Mediterranean before he fully resumes Parliamentary work. His doctors and friends are strongly urging a long respite. The latest bulletin states that the results of the operation on Mr MacDonald’s eye are very satisfactory, but at least three weeks of complete rest is essential. Mr MacDonald has been urged to give his sight greater care in future.

x The death is reported at Christchurch, of Mr Richard Mussen, aged about 70 years. He was born on the West Coast, and resided at Cobden for many years, conducting a pork butchery, and later, a pie-cart, at Greymouth. He left for Christchurch about twenty years ago, and had since conducted- pie-carts in that city. He had been in hospital for some time prior to his death. He leaves his widow, two married daughters, and three sons, William, Edward, and Alfred.