PERSONALS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10880, 26 April 1929, Page 4

PERSONALS.

The Rev. Wi Moana, of the East Coast, is at present- confined to bed with an attack of pleurisy.—Special. Mr. Titos. ■ Corson has been 'reelected representative of payers of dues on tlic- Gisborne Harbor Board, being the only nomination received. Mr. F. W. Richards, of Wellington, who was a. resident of Gisborne away hack in 1877, has been visiting this town during the past few days. He departs To-day. ;Mf.. 11. E. Hill, who lias boon indisposed! during flu- past few days, was admitted to a private, hospital last evening. An ojieratioii for appendicitis may ,he necessary. Dr. T. \V. -Childs, who has been medical superintendent at Tokamn Mental Hospital for eighteen months, has' received notice of his transfer to :i; similar' position at Seacllff Hospital, near Dunedin. Mr Quentin Rope has been appointed Dominion secretary of the I'm'tod .Party. Mr. Rope, who was Parliamentary reporter and sub-editor on the stair of the. New Zealand Times, is a well-known New Zealand journalist.

A Vancouver cablegram announces the death of Mr. Edward Alexander Haggen, mining engineer. He was horn in Dunedin: and educated at Otago .University. He came to Canada in 1897.—United)Service. .Suffering' from injuries as the result, of a fall. Mr. R. Bayly was admitted to a private hospital last evening. Enquiries late last night showed that his condition was quite satisfactory, but the extent of his injuries had not vet been ascertained'. Sir James Pan- and Mr.' f luxham attended Shakespeare's birthday celebrations at Statford-on-Avon, and unfurled Dominion flags -at the international celebrations. They also .attended a memorial performance at the theatre.—A.P.A. 'Die following announcements are made: .Lord Shaw has resigned his office as Lord of Appeal in ordinary, 'l’lie King has conferred a barony upon Lord Shaw upon his retirement alter 20 years’ sendee.—His Majesty has appointed the Rt. Hon. William Watson, Lord Advocate for Scotland, to he Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.—The King has approved of the appointment of Alexander MacRohert, Solicitor-General for Scotland, to he Lord Advocate, and the appointment of Mr. Wilfred Xonnand to be; Solicitor-General for Scotland.- -British Wireless.

The Rev. R. T.. Walker, M.A.. of the Matawhero Presbyterian .Church, is retiring from the: active ranks of the ministry and will take up his residence at Takapuna. Auckland. M>, iValker lias made many friends during his three years’ residence in this district and his departure will be sincerely regretted. He was ordained in 1891, and, afton ten years’ ministry in the Old Country, he came to New Zealand in 1902. His post at Matawhero was 1 1 is third in this country, lie having been previously at St. James', Auckland, and Ravensbourne. Dunedin. Mr. Walker's resignation comes before a meeting of the Hawke's Bay Presbytery on April 30 and his retirement will take effect at the end of June.

The: deatli is reported at Auckland of Mr Rudolph Friedlander, one of the early business men of Ashburton, who was closely associated with many sides of civic and social activity in the borough from its earliest days till about nine years ago. With his brothers, Mr. Max Friedlander and the late Mr. Hugo Friedlander. lie was associated in the firm of Friedlander Brothers, in West street. He came of old Polish stock, and with lrs brothers set out for Australia, where they worked for a number of years before coming to New Zealand to settle in Canterbury. Mr. Rudolph Friedlander took a keen interest in all phases of life in the young and rapidly advancing town on the Plains, and performed yeoman service as a member of several of the local bodies and institutions.

Air. AY. G. Foster, an old resident of Wellington, died at his home. Island Bay. last week-end. after a short, illness, at the advanced age of 83. Air. Foster was one of New Zealand’s very old colonists, having arrived in Canterbury from London about the year 1559 in the sading ship Zealandia which .brought many of the earliest, settlers to Canterbury iu the fifties and sixties. Air. Foster as a young man served under the late All-. "Rhodes, one- of the founders of the Canterbury Province and later on he managed the Purau and Seadowns Estate in South Canterbury. Tn the middle eighties he managed the late firm of Aides and Co., Christchurch, going to-Welling-ton about 1888 to take over the management of the New Zealand Loan and Alereanlile Agency Co.. Ltd. About 1890 Air. Foster was appo'ntotl hv the late Hon. R. J. Soddon as manager of the Assets 'Realisation Board, which had for its purnose the liquidation of the estates held hv the Bank of New Zealand in the North Island. On the successful completion of this work Air. Foster took over the management of the Wellington .Meat Export Company, which position lie held as managing cl rector until his retirement in 1919, At. the time of his death lie. still retained his position as chairman of the New Zealand Investment Com-pany.,'’-also a directorship of the Wellington .Woollen Company.

Alembers of the Gisborne police force, assembled in full strength at the station on Wednesday afternoon to hid farewell to Senior-Sergt. D. A. McLean, who has been transferred .to AYanganui. Inspector O’Hallorau' referred m very eulogistic terms to the; departing oificeib who had always performed his duties with tact and with firmness. SeniorSergt. Ale Lea» was a highly capable officer,' and the speaker expressed regret at his departure. He was very popular with all members ot 'the' force, and as a slight token of the esteem in which lie, is held, Inspector O’llalloran asked him to accept’a handsome dinner set and rls'o '• iv case- of' pipes, coupled with the best wishes of every member of the ,I'orce for future prosperity and happiness in his new sphere. Sergt. Mclntyre. Constables. Leckie and Morn's, and Detective. AlcLeod, endorsed the, Inspector's remarks, each speaker eukudsnig the departing oificer. SdriSw-Sergt. McLean, in re*. pyty, stated that liewas■exceedingly sorry '"to leaVe Gisborne, where liis relations witlr one aqd all had been of the'njost; amicable; nature. • He thanked Inspector OlHatloran. and the other, speakers, for their,'highly complimentary remarks, ; and. could assure them ‘that lie- would: always Areasure the gifts as a token of ■remembrance of the happy ‘times 1 lie had spent at the Gisborne station.'