Personal Notes

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 September 1944, Page 4

Personal Notes

Mr and Mrs E. Webber left, this morning, on return to New Plymouth.

Mr and Mrs R. H. Hyland left, this morning, for Rangiora.

Mr N. Griffiths left, this morning, or Auckland.

Sergeant J. J. Kearns left, to-day; on return to Lyttelton.

Mrs S. McDonnell left, this morning, for Oamaru.

Mr. G. R. Herron (Makarewa) was, this afternoon, selected by the Committee of the National Party to contest the Awarua seat at the by-elec-tion consequent on the death of Brigadier Hargest on active service.— P.A.

Advice has been received by the Prime Minister (Mr Fraser) that Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Freyberg is making satisfactory progies stewards recovery from his injuries, and that his general condition is good.—P.A.

Mr. A. L. Litt, M.S.c,, formerly of the staff of the Mt. Albert Grammar School, Auckland, and more recently an instructor in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, will take up duty on the staff of the Greymouth. Technical High School towards the end of the month in succession to Mr. F. A. Wicks.

The death occurred yesterday of Miss Louisa Catherine Kohn, matron of the Thorndon Private Hospital. Miss Kohn, who ranked among the Dominion pioneer nurses, established a record in the history of New Zealand nursing,.having spent 47 caring for the sick. She was bor, 1870.—P.A. W” Guests at Revingtons Hotel include: Miss D. Fanning, Miss D. Hamilton (Wellington), Mr A. M. Franklin, Mr and Mrs M. H. Reid, Miss M. Woodd, Mr H. M. Woodd (Christchurch): Mr M. M. Cookson (Wellington), Mr J. J. Barnao, Lieut, and Mrs M. D. Maisey (Christchurch), Lieut, and Mrs R. Lenny, Pte. A. N. Douglas (Auckland).

The Governor-General (Sir Cyril Newall) has received the following reply to the message of congratulation sent by him to Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery on his recent promotion: “Very many thanks for your telegram of congratulations. My best wishes to you and to all my old comrades in arms in New Zealand who fought together with me in this war.” —P.A.

The following are guests at the Albion Hotel: Lieut, and Mrs. J. Wilson (Dunedin), Mrs. W. W. Clark, Misses B. C. Wallace, Mcßell (Auckland), P. M. Robertson (Palmerston North), Mrs. L. T. Jones, Messrs A. J. G. Smith, M. C. Hockley, R. T. Cooper, R. J. Jones, E. A. Bray (Christchurch), J. A. Graham (Franz Josef), S. W. Stark (Woodbourne), L. R. Wadsworth, P. G. Glasson (Invercargill), S. H. Stephenson (Wellington).

Mrs Sarah Elizabeth Roberts, Christchurch, died recently in her ninety-fifth year. Born at Magheralin, County Down, Ulster, in 1849, the only child of the late James Baxter, she came to New Zealand with her mother and stepfather in the ship British Empire in 1864. She and her future husband, Robert Morris Roberts, met in the employ of Mr W. Alexander, of Kaiapoi, both going to the Otira Gorge in that employ, where Mr Alexander built two houses for acommodation on the coach road to Hokitika. MT Roberts took control ol one of these houses, called the Junction House, afterwards Jackson’s, and married Miss Baxter at St. Peter’s Church, Upper Riccarton, in December, 1866. They remained on the West Coast through the adventurous days of the diggings and returned to Canterbury "in 1875.