PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 November 1939, Page 6

PERSONAL NOTES

Mr. R. A. Blampied left, by this morning’s express for Christchurch.

Mr. L. Jackson returned yesterday, :rom Gisborne'. *

Mr. F. McGirr was a passenger by to-day’s express to Christchurch.

Miss M. Finlay left, this morning, for Wellington.

Mr. and Mrs. G. Sutton left to-day, on return to Timaru.

Mr. and Mrs. G. White left to-day, for Christchurch.

Miss B. Dixon left to-day, on a holiday visit to Auckland. >

k Mr. W. Phelan left this morning, for Wanganui.-

Mr. P. C. Heaphy left this morning; for Christchurch.

Mr. and Mrs. T. Cairney left this morning, for Christchurch.

Miss A. P. Baxter left to-day,, on return to Christchurch.

Mrs. A. Woollett and Miss R. Woollett left this 1 morning, for Christchurch.

Mr. G. Webster left to-day, for Christchurch.

Mrs. M. Sewell left this morning, • on return to Pleasant Point..

Mr. and Mrs. W. O’Reilly left td-day on a visit to Christchurch., Mr. T. O’Neill left to-day, for Christchurch. " ■

Rev. Father Lennon, C.S.S.R., arrived on Saturday from Wellington,., to join Rev. Fathers O’Connell and Gartlan in conducting missions in St. Patrick’s parish.

Guests at Revington’s Hotel include: Mr. an,d Mrs. B. D. Blank (Westport), Mr. E. L. Ronsley, Mr. R. V. Foster, Mr and Mrs. M. J. Russell, Miss D. Russell (Christchurch)

Mrs. R. E. Fisher, Mrs. A. Pearce, Miss M. Pearce and Miss Shirley GUI, will arrive this afternoon from Christchurch to attend the Sweetman-Mur-phy wedding, which will take place tomorrow morning.

The death has occurred at Newtown, Wellington, of Mrs. Frank Keddell, a former resident of Greymouth. Deceased is survived by. an adult family of six ; Her husband ‘prer deceased her 26 years ago. :

Cabled advice was received in Greymouth yesterday, of the death, ; (at Toronto, of Mrs. J. E. Langdon, a daughter of Mrs. Ring and the late Mr. James Ring, of Shakespeare Street, Greymouth.

Advice has been received by Mrs. W. Mayne, Ngahere, that her daughter, Mrs. H. G. Hudson, who, with he?; husband, has been on an extended tour of England and the Continent, will arrive in Wellington to-day.

The King , has approved of the ap-. pcintment of Mr. Mallet, Councillor.., of the British Embassy at Washington, . to be His Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at j. Stockholm, succeeding Sir E. Monson—Official Wireless. ;;

An Official Wireless message stated that the King has approved the promotion of Air Vice-Marshal R. E. CPeirse, Deputy-Chief of the Air Staff, to be acting Air-Marshall, on his appointment as an additional member of the Air Council.

Dr. E. H. Densem, M. 8., Ch.B., of Timaru, was appointed medical officer to the State Miners’ Medical Association, at a meeting held yesterday., There were six applicants for the position. . Dr. Densem qualified at Otago. University in 1937, and has had experience in the Dunedin and Timaru Hospitals. .

Sir Harry Batterbee, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, will leave Wellington for Picton and Blenheim on November 17. He will spend the next two days at Nelson, where he will open the annual show of the Nelson Agricultural and Pastoral Association on November 18. He expects to return to Blenheim on November 20, and to reach Wellington from Picton on November 21.

Brigadier-General Sir Herbert Hart, formerly Administrator of Western Samoa, and now Chief Administrative Officer for the Imperial War Graves Commission in the Near East, is in New Zealand on leave, and expects to remain for about three months. He is accompanied by his wife. He says that the situation in Palestine is definitely much better. From the time the war broke out, both Arabs and Jews, realising the danger to themselves if Germany succeeded in The war, and her determination for world domination, passed resolutions throughout- the country, expressing their desire to assist in co-operation with the Allies. Brigadier-General Hart said his ocean journey from Port Said was made under black-out conditions, and was without incident.—Press Assn.