Personal Notes

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 September 1942, Page 4

Personal Notes

Mrs A. Lawson arrived yesterday Tom Dunedin.

A Kuibyshev message said that Mr. Wendell Willkie and party had arrived by air from Teheran.

The engagement is announced of June, youngest daughter of Mrs. W. Howat, Cobden, and Maurice, only son of Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Jarden, Christchurch.

The British Official Wireless stated that Dr. Sheffield Neave has been elected as secretary of the Zoological Society, London, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Professor Huxley.

At a meeting of the Greymouth Borough Council, last evening, motions of condolence were passed with Cr. J. Stokes, in the death of his mother, and Mr. R. Grant, a member of the staff of the Council, in the death of his mother.

Private Peter Tennent, who was mentioned in a recent casualty list as wounded, was on the staff of the Greymouth Branch of the Bank of New South Wales when he volunteered for service. He left New Zealand with the Second Echelon. Private Tennent is the only son of Mr O. Tennent, manager of the Bank of Australasia, Wellington, and is a nephew of Mrs. A. V. Oliver, Greymouth.

Private Charles E. Johnson, of Queensland, who appeared in a casualty list published yesterday, as missing, is a former resident df Greymouth, and a brother of Constable J. Johnson, of Greymouth. Pte. Johnson worked at the Dobson mine when on the West Coast, and was prominent in League football and boxing circles. Another- brother, Frederick, was killed in action in Crete, in May, 1941. He was reported missing in Crete in May, 1941, but it was not until this month that advice was received that he had been killed in action. He also was a resident of Greymouth, and played for the Marist League Club.