PERSONAL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22241, 29 January 1947, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr J. G. Goodwin. Tauranga. is visiting Gisborne after an absence of 46 vears.

The British Phosphate Commissioner. Mr. W. Bankes Amery. departed from London on Monday by the Rimutaka for Australia and New Zealand. The United Nations commission on human rights unanimously elected Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt as chairman. Those present at last evening’s fortnightly meeting of the Gisborne Borough Council were the Mayor, Mr. \ T . H. Bull, and Messrs. H. H. De Costa. F. Tolcrton. G. D. Muirhead. A. L. Singer, F. J, Jeune. R. Morse, M. JWhite and I. J. Quigley. Mr. P. C. Webb, a former Cabinet Minister, entered the Lewisham Hospital, Wellington. Mr. Webb, who did not seek re-election to Parliament in November, was seriously ill Inst year. Mr. G. D. White-Parsons, a Canterbury College graduate, who, since 1931, has been with engineering and electrical companies in Britain, returned by Ihe Hinemoa on his first holiday for seven years. Mr. White-Parsons played a key part in the development of the CaHender-I-lamilton bridge, used extensively during the war, specially in the Far East, for rebuilding railway bridges.