PERSONAL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21603, 4 January 1945, Page 6

PERSONAL

Still taking a keen interest in current affairs and pursuing his trade as a watchmaker, Mr. John Petrie, Pembroke road, Stratford, celebrated his ninetieth birthday in Stratford last week.

The Rev. Brother Leonard, B.Sc., has been appointed director of the Sacred Heart College, Auckland, in succession to the Rev. Brother Borgia, who lias retired after being director of the college since 19:18. Brother Leonard's appointment is effective immediately. Brother Leonard is well known in educational circles in Auckland, having been senior mathematics and science master at Sacred Heart College for several years Private G. B. Barker, who is reported wounded, is the only son of Mr. C. G. E. Harker, M.P., and Mrs. Harker, Waipawa. Born in Wellington in 1923, he was educated at St. Patrick's College. Silverstream. and after serving in the Territorials left New Zealand for overseas in May, 1942, and has since been through the campaigns with the Second N.Z.E.F. in the Middle East. He had previously been wounded when in action. Mrs. Harker has received a private cable message that he is "all right and not to worry," so it is presumed that his wounds are not of a serious nature. A former Gisborne resident, Mr. [ Harry Holford. who now resides in Johannesburg, South Africa, is now the principal of a large engineering college there, with branches in all the principal towns of the Union. Mr. Ilolford spent his boyhood in Gisborne, and with a brother served in the South African War. He later was in business in Gisborne as an electrical contractor, during the period of Gisborne's early development of a municipal electrical undertaking. Later he returned to South Africa, where lie is understood to have .acquired substantial interests in engineering concerns. He hopes to visit Now Zealand as soon as the war situation permits, as a prelude to retirement to a larm which he owns near Johannesburg.