Personal Notes

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 December 1944, Page 4

Personal Notes

Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Crooks left, this morning, for Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. C. Darnand left, today, on return to Wellington.

Mr. J. Eathorne left, this morning, for Temuka.

Mr. and Mrs. B. Miles, Wellington, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Russell, Tainui Street. Rev. H. S. I. Kenney, vicar of Petone since 1936, has been appointed vicar of Masterton in succession to Archdeacon E. J. Rich, who has accepted the charge of St. Peter’s, Wellington, in place of the late Archdeacon Bullock.

Mr. T. E. H. King has been elected representative of the South Island members o of the first division of the Railways 0 Department on the Government Railways Superannuation Fund Board, and Mr. G. Mouton representative of the second division for both islands.

Guests at Revingtons Hotel include: Mr and Mrs F. T. Hay, Mr and Mrs K. M. Elliott, Mr and Mrs H. G. Tombs, Mr R. L. Harris (Christchurch); Mrs M. R. Pearson (Rangiora); Miss M. A. Marshall, Miss N. Bell, Miss M. Stodart (Wellington).

A Melbourne cablegram stated that the Prime Minister of Australia (Mr. Curtin), who has been in hospital in Melbourne since November 4, left by car for Canberra, yesterday. He was accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Elsie Coles, who travelled from Perth to be with her father at Christmas.-

Mr Lloyd George, who is aged 82, has decided to retire from Parliament:. The decision, which was on medical advice, was announced by the ex-Prime Minister to the Chairman of the Liberal Association of Carnarvon Boroughs—the constituency which he has represented without interruption fox' 54 years.

The following are guests at the Albion Hotel: Messrs S. Leighton and B. Ferguson, Mr and Mrs A. J. Downes and Mr and Mrs J. Berack (Wellington), Mr T. Cramore, Mr and Mrs W. Rostin (Auckland), Misses McKenzie, E. L. Fensom (Reefton), Mr and Mrs C. K. Haines (Palmerston Nonh), Messrs W. Barrington (Gisborne), V. Connors and A. Edwards (Invercargill), B. Laimbon (Otago), G. Sherrily (Ashburton), D. Hamlin, A. Isles (Kaiapoi), V. Hughes (Waikato), W. A. Bartlett (Blenheim), M. R. Pearson and G. Grieg (Rangiora), E. Landring, F. Walters, N. Hawkins, J. Hasnell, Mr and Mrs W. Armstrong, Mi' and Mrs G. Willis, Mr and Mrs Dowler, Mr and Mrs Brassington (Christchurch), Misses N. and L. Ryan (Dunedin), Mr and Mrs R. Hill (Oamaru), Mr and Mrs Dickson (Napier). ___________