PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 March 1941, Page 6

PERSONAL NOTES

Mrs D. S. Kennedy left to-day on a visit to Invercargill.

Mrs W. Fisher and Miss J. Fisher left tb-day, on return to. Lower Hutt.

Mrs J. Griffen left this morning, for Wellington.

Miss M. Mowat left to-day, on return to Christchurch.

Miss P. Gatehouse left this morning, on return to Christchurch.

Mr C. Nailer left to-day, on return to Gisborne.

Mrs W. Sullivan left to-day, on return to Timaru.

Miss J. Roberts left this morning, for Christchurch.

Mr. M. J. Phillips returned yesterday, from Wellington.

Mr. G. Boucher returned yesterday, from Christchurch.

Aircraftman J. Newton left, last evening, on return to Harewood.

Miss J. C. Paul has been appointed Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the Ahaura District, according to a Gazette announcement.

A London cablegram stated that the Order of the British Empire, has been awarded to Sergeant Thomas Richard Read, R.N.Z.A.F.

Mr D. D. Burdett, Transport Department Traffic Inspector for the Grey district, left to-day, on transfer to Christchurch. He was accompanied by Mrs Burdett.

A London cablegram announced the death of Dr. C. R. M. F. Cruttwell, M.A., D.Litt., principal of Heriford College, Oxford, from 1930-39. He was born in 1887.

Mr. W. H. Parfitt (Chairman of the Greymouth Fire Board) will leave this evening for Wellington, where he will attend the annual meeting of New Zealand Fire Boards.

Mr C. W. Browne, Chief Postmaster at Greymouth, will leave on Monday, on transfer to Timaru. He will be succeeded at Greymouth' by Mr A. W. Swap, relieving officer of the Department.

Dr. McMillan, M.P., has been chosen as Labour’s Mayoral candidate in the forthcoming Dunedin municipal elections. He is also selected to stand for the Hospital and Harbour Boards. —Press Assn.

A Sydney cablegram announced the death yesterday of Mr. George H. Morgan,, formerly trans-Pacific manager at Sydney for the Union Steam Ship Company, from which he retired in 1934. His wife, son and daughter survive him.

Guests at Revingtons include: Mr. Frank Kent. Mr. A. Ralph, Mr. D. D. Tucker, Mr. E. D. Whittle, Mr. A. Christie, Mr. P. G. Martin, Mr. A. W-. Franklin, Mr. P. Jackson, Mr. B. Curgenven, Mr. A. Cossar (Christchurch), Miss Joan Curnow, Mr. and Mrs. Simpson (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. Moran, Miss J. Nicholls, Miss MacDermott (Wellington), Mrs. F. Ormond, Mrs. J. C. Rigby, Mr. J. N. Patrick, Mr. W. R. Duke, Mr. W. Fels (Dunedin), Mr. T. R. Saywell (Temuka).

Mr. Patrick Lucas Hamilton, who lives near Pleasant Point, 12 miles from Timaru, yesterday celebrated what he claims is his one hundred and eleventh birthday. Mr. Hamilton still enjoys good health. His hearing is good, but he is not now able to read. On his one hundredth birthday his family presented him with an easy chair, and to-day he sat in the chair for three hours. Mr. Hamilton was the recipient of many congratulatory messages. He was born in County Donegal, Ireland, on St. Patrick’s Day in the reign of William IV, and came to New Zealand in 1870. —Press Assn.

Mr. C. E. Critchley, Australian Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, will leave New Zealand early in April to undertake special duties in connection with the organisation of emergency food supplies in the Commonwealth. Mr. Critchley has represented Australia in this country since 1937. He is one of the senior officers of the Commonwealth Trade Commisioners’ service, and before coming to New Zealand, served ten years in Canada and the Netherlands East Indies. As yet, no appointment has been made to replace Mr Critchley, and after his departure, the office of the Commissioner will be in charge of Mr. J. L. Menzies, Assistant Commissioner.—Press Assn.

Miss E. M. Lewis, Matron of the Wairau Hospital, has been appointed Matron of the New Zealand hospital, ship Maunganui. Yesterday, Miss Lewis was granted six months’ leave of absence by the Marlborough Hospital Board, at the request of the Government. Miss Lewis had a lengthy period of nursing service in the Great War. On the outbreak, she joined the Red Cross in England, and sailed for Egypt in the New Zealand hospital ship Marama, late in 1915. She received an appointment to the staff of the Anglo-American hospital in Cairo, and later was transferred to the 27th General Hospital, and posted to the hospital ship Assaye. She made several trips between Suez, India, and East Africa. Miss Lewis was the only New Zealand sister attached to the unit proceeding to Palestine late in 1917, when she was attached to the 45th stationary hospital at El Arish. Later, she served in the No. 56 hospital train, running between Jerusalem and Kantarar Miss Lewis was attached to the general hospital at Alexandria when the armistice was signed, and remained there until 1919, when she rejoined the hospital ship Assaye. She completed her military nursing at Trentham in 1921, when she was appointed to the Wairau Hospital.—Press Assn.