PERSONAL NOTES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3593, 5 August 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL NOTES.

• Sir James Carroll left for the South vesterdav.

i Air Nelson, general manager for i'Alessrs Niven and Co., left for Napier ' bv last night's steamer. I * ; Air A. E. Ballinger, of the well- • known grocery firm of Ballinger Bros., Hastings, arrived on Saturday to take { no the position of grocery manager for ■ Messrs Common Shelton and Co. His Honor Judge Jones has returnj ed from AYairoa.

| A P.-l. telegram from Ka’.apoi ; states that Air Baird Chisholm, an j eld colonist, and a brother of Air H. '• Chisholm, who was manager of the ; Bank of New Zealand at Timarn. : died on Friday night. He leaves two

\ Air G. E. Ashton, who has just roi linquished the managership of the ]oj i-al branch of Messrs L. I). Nathan i and Co. in order to take <mitral of Air • D. 7. Barry’s wine and spirit business. I recently acquired from Messrs Barker : Bros, and Sheridan, was met by the ' staff of Messrs L. D. Nathan and Co. jon Saturday morning and presented ' with a handsome leather suit case and a travelling rug. Air G. Bolton, who succeeds Air Ashton, made the presentation, and referred to the cordial relations that had always existed between Air Ashton and the staff, and wished him every success in his new sphere. Air Ashton suitably respond- ■ ed.