PERSONAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LV, Issue 6153, 10 August 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL

A London cable states that Mr Massey catches the Niagara at Vancouver. Sft - Orator It' th. —d assembly for 1922.-P-A. The death is reported from Christchurch of Miss Clara Collins, matron of the Holly Lea private hospital of that city. . . , The Hon. C. J. Parr, Minister of Education, intend* proceeding to Auckland to welcome Lord Northcliffe, who is due on August 29. Mr Ewen McGregor,, of Wanganui, was re-elected president of the Protestant Political Association at its annua? meeting in Wellington. • The death has taken place at Wellington of Mrs McNicol, wife of Mr Si McNicol, for over 35 years stores manager of the, .Union Company, Wellington.. j The death of Mr A. A. Boyland buHding overseer in the Wanganui I üblie Works Office, is announced. Deceased, who was born at Taunton, England, in. 1853, had supervised the erect on of several post offices in the Noith Island.

The death is announced from England of Mr J. T. Carr, a for/ner resident of Napier. Deceased came to New Zealand in the ’seventies under uneagement to the Government, and was employed in laying out the railway line in southern Hawke’s Bay. A pleasing function took place at Wanganui when the staff of the Native Land Court gathered together to bid farewell to Mr S. E. Swift on the eve of his departure for the Native Land Court, at Gisborne. Mr MacKay, Deputy Registrar, presided. He referred to the good-feeling which existed between the offeers of the staff and Mr Swift, and expressed the general regret that he was leaving, and asked him to accept, as a token of the esteem in. which he was held b} bis fellow officers, a handsome suitcase. Mr Swift suitable responded.—Wanganui Chronicle.