PERSONALS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9780, 14 April 1924, Page 4

PERSONALS.

Air. Eric AI. Harper has been apj pointed a Justica of the Peace, j Porritt, of Wanganui, ‘sprinter and hurdler, will join the New Zealand , Olympic team. —P.A. j Bishop Sedgwick, who is visiting ' tho East Coast, will be at Gisborne j for Good Friday and Easter, and on 1 Anzac Day will lay tlie foundation stone for a soldiers’ memorial at Tiki , Tiki.

! Mr. J. Wright. Assistant. Engineer for Armstrong, Whitworth mid Coy., arrived at Tauranga on Saturday to make preliminary arrangements and • surveys for the firm’s railway contract for the Katikati Te Puna sec- ‘ tion of the East Coast railway. —P.A. | At the conclusion of the monthly , meeting of the Poverty Bay Farmers’ Union on Saturday the president • mentioned with regret the pending retirement of Aliss Foster from the Union’s service. Miss Foster, he said, was an official whom they were sorry :to lose. During her term of engagei ment, she had always done all ini her , power to forward the objects and in- | tcrests of the Union, and she would leave a vacancy hard to fill. The president, wished’ Miss Foster every success in her new duties. Other members also spoke in appreciative terms of th<? good work of Miss Foster, who suitably replied. Mr. J. A. Campbell,~Directer of the Horticultural Division, arrived from Napier on Saturday.- To-day and tomorrow Mr. Campbell will inspect the district, and all those interested who wish AU. Campbell to inspect their orchards or gardens should communicate with Air. AI. Davey at the Government Buildings. On Wednesday morning Air. Campbell will judge tho fruit and flower sections of the Chrysanthemum Show, and that evening will leave by the Arahura fcr Wellington. While in Gisborne ho will add‘resjf*a meeting of the Fruit Growers’ Association. Air. A. J. Shadier, ' of Palmerston 1 • North (Chrysanthemum judge), is accompanying Mr. Campbell on his tour of the district, v