PERSONALS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10489, 14 October 1926, Page 4

PERSONALS

Professor Macmillan Brown, of'New Zealand, sails from Vancouver on Thursday to attend the science congress at Tokio, states a Sun cable.

Mrs Bessie Low King, of Gisborne, has been awarded the commemoration medal of the International Society of Philology, Sciences, and Fine Arts, an organisation v.ith beanquarters in London.

Sir James (Fergusson. a brother of the Governor-General of New Zealand, has relinquished the command of the North American station and is coming to New Zealand with his family by the Tainui.

The many friends of Mr and Mrs G. Albrecht made during their short stay in the district will regret to boa- that Mrs Albrecht has taken suddenly ill and is an inmate of Sister Parker’s private hospital. Mr and Mrs Albrdeht, who have just completed • a tour of New Zealand, were to have left for their home in South Africa vesterdav.

The Daily Mirror, London, savs: Lady Parr, wife of the new H’-to Commissioner for New Zealand, is beginning to take an active part i" Dominion affairs in London. She is a pretty woman—far better-looking than her photographs portray her—and she dresses well, has a distinct charm of manner and a nice voice, which are. assets not to be despised in an important High ' Commissioner’s wife.

Mr M. J. Mack, general secretary of the A.S.R.S., is about to retire on superannuation after 40 years’ service in tlie department and eighteen years’ in bis present position. In 1911 'he unsuccessfully contested +he Parnell seat for Labor, and in ISIS again was unsuccessful at a by-elec-tion for Wellington Central, when Mr P. Fraser, the official candidate of the Labor Party, was returned. To Mr Mack’s great organising ability has been largely due the success of the A.S.R.S. organisation.—P.A.

The services rendered to the .R B. Woolbrokers’ Association by the president, Mr -A. T.‘ Spain, were recognised at- the monthly meeting of the Association, when Mr Spain was made the recipient of a handsome picnieTwisket designed for use when motoring. Mr Snain is shortly to take marge of the Napier office of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Go., Ltd., and the chairman ol tb- --ssociation, Mr Leslie Miles, expressed the pleasure'felt by all s colleagues in the promotion. Mr Spain said that his regret at leaving Gisborne would he tenmered bv Me fact that he would s*ill be in fa : ' r _ v close touch with the local’ mercantile businesses.