PERSONALS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11404, 3 January 1931, Page 4

PERSONALS

/According to ahas inthe Billiards C°ntrol C Mc Conachy vited Dindrum, ho and Davis to a . participation hope of securing their .P* * in the championships.;- ~ ,

The Daily Herald 0s of Brancker:s successor rert^^^ Civil Aviation nil! be L Avia Slielmerdme, Director unr iva-lled tion in India v .whokas an-wm ( knowledge of the Empire.s a —P.A-. . '

The eng«agement is^amioun^ed^of Gwendoline, elder daug Wairoa, and Mrs. Holger Bygum, ofWanm, Hawke’s Bay. to A p h p.arade, of Air. and Mrs. A. L- l-iun,. Island Bay.

The engagement j s announced Miss Ethel Mav. second daughter Mi*, and Airs. AA. Cokei, r ade, Wairoa, to Jack eldestson o of ' Mr. and Mrs. . J**Hastings.

Mr N G. Pascoe, formerly manager of the local branch of the Banx of Australasia, js at present vn-itu.g Gisborne and is thw gu • . » G J Black, of Graham road. Air. Pascoe has spent the -last two yeai . in the Old Country is en ioutc tp his home at Katoomba.

The death occur.ed on Tue ItoiS a Eugby message, _ the. great Sanskrit scholar _ and em ... fessof of Sanslcrit m the L ,j----of Oxford.: He was' 76 years old.British Official AVireless.

The following telegram sent by His Excellency the GovernorGeneral to Lord Rutherford, the r? nowned New Zealand scient ■ , the occasion of his elevation to, Ji peerage • ‘‘Heartiest congratulations on your well-merited honor. New Zealand delighted at this recognition, of her distinguished -son.—Bledisloe. —P.A. --- ,- -

Their Excellencies, the GovernorGeneral' and Lady Bledisloe, who will he' accompanied by Captain and Air. Vaughan Hughes, and Major and Mrs. Bathurst, and attended by b}V John Hanham, Bart., , A.D.C,, . wil leave Wellington this evening ior official visits to the ' South Island. From January 5 to- 12 their Excellencies will be at Dunedin. ancL will then visit Gore. Invercargill. W .port, Repfton. Greymouth:'and[ Hokitika. and after spending a. few day? at- the Franz Josef Glacier will return to AYellington on February li P.A:

• Bad luck-continued to pursue Air. J. Buckeridge, following the crashing of his ’plane at Wainiro Bav on New Year’s Day. Air: Buckeridge., who escaped with only minor tvas placed in a car owned by Mr. tv* McFariane and driven by Mr. AlcCracken in order to take him to Te Puia Hospital. En route to the hospital-, .the car' collided with another machine on one of the sharp bends of i-he road, both vehicles being damaged and that containing Mr. Ruckeridge narrowly missing being forced down a 20ft- bank into a creek bed. The injured airman escaped any further injury and after attention at the hospital was discharged yesterday. 1 ...