PERSONAL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21899, 18 December 1945, Page 4

PERSONAL

An Auckland resident, Mrs. Margaret Baxter Salmon, celebrated her I.ooth birthday on Monday at Eventide Home, Mount Eden.

The world leader of the Salvation Army, General G. L. Carpenter, is expected to arrive at Auckland from Sydney by air on January 3. Mrs. C. H. Upham, wife of Captain C. H. Upham, V.C. and bar, of Christchurch, is a passenger in the troopship Mooltan, due at Wellington on Thursday. Mrs. Upham has been in England nearly a year acting as a welfare officer with the Red Cross.

Those present at yesterdays meeting of the Cook Hospital Board were the chairman, Mr. M. T. Trafford, Mrs. E. R. Scott, Messrs. G. D. Muirhead, E. R. Black, J. H. Hall, H. J. F. Tombleson. H. H. Barker, ancl H. D. Cooper. Captain J. B. Mackie, of the e M.5.V.F., accompanied by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Mackie, Dunedin, left on Thursday after spending a few days with his sister, Mrs. A. C. Holland, Russell street. Captain Mackie was a prisoner of war in Kuching camp, Borneo, for 31 years.

Miss A. I. Wilson, headmistress of Queen Margaret College, Wellington, since 1924, will retire on superannuation at the end of the first term next year. She was a member of the consultative committee appointed by the Government in 1942 to revise the post-primary curriculum. —P.A.