PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 May 1934, Page 7

PERSONAL NOTES

Mr. and Mrs Mather, Mr. Mather, junr., and Miss Mather, of Blackball, will leave to-morrow, for Auckland.

Mr. W. F. G. Pullin will leave for Dunedin to-morrow, to attend the Convocation of the Royal Arch Chapter. He will return on Saturday.

Mr. H. H. Cornish, lecturer in law at Victoria University College, has been appointed Solicitor-General. Press Assn.

The engagement is announced oi Lena, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs E. Dumpleton, Blackball, to Jack eldest son of Mr. and Mrs C. H. Baker, of Petone, Wellington.

Mr. Frank Pawson, business agent for the Railway Department for the Canterbury and West Coast districts, has been appointed general manager of the Mt. Somers Coal Co.

The death is announced from Melbourne of Mr. Agar Wynne, a former Federal and State Cabinet Minister, and a prominent sportsman and racehorse owner.

The death has occurred at Auckland, of Commandant A. W. Sawyer. He was at over 20 centres in New Zealand since he entered the Army in 1910.—Press Assn.

Passengers by Saturday’s express from Christchurch included: —Mrs A. Kyle, Miss J. Hignett, Miss U. Kilpatrick, Mrs J. W. Dickson, Mi’s E. J. Hay, Mr, A. Morley, Mr. E. Cotter.

A Berlin cablegram stated that President Hindenburg is gravely ill, the result of an old internal trouble. His condition is regarded as hopeless, though the German Press is not permitted to mention the illness.

A Gore telegram announced thal Mr. Michael Fitzgerald, 57 years, well known in insurance circles, and hair dicapper for Southland trotting meetings, expired suddenly last evening, following a heart attack. He is survived by a widow and ten children.

Mr. P. Blanchfield, senr., has been appointed to represent the West Coast branches of the Hibernian Society, at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Hibernian Society delegates, at Wellington, on May 30.

The death is announced from New York of Mr. William Corey, steel magnate, following an attack of pneumonia. He was sixty-eight years of age. He rose from a Pennsylvania coal miner to become the President

of the United States Steel Corpora

tion. He married Miss Mabelle Gilman, a musical comedy star, in 1907, when he retired from the head of the steel industry.

The death is announced, from Christchurch, of Mr. George Jameson, 84, formerly a farmer and business man. In 1895 he visited England, representing the Christchurch, Timaru, and Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Associations, and founded the London office of the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association. Later, he was secretary and general manager of the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association, at Christchurch, and held that position for two years; also for some time, he farmed in Hawke’s Bay, owning the Aomarama Station. He was bora in Manchester, and left England in 1863. He was educated at Christ’s College. He was a first-class Knight of the Order of St. Olav (Norway).