PERSONALS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11453, 2 March 1931, Page 4

PERSONALS

The late. Lord Birkenhead’s gross estate'is valued at £63,223-and the net personality at £10,459. —P.A.

The Supreme Court sessions having concluded. His Honor Air. Justice MacGregor left for the South on Saturday morning.

The Rev. James Aitkon, ALA., who has been in an Auckland hospital for some time, has returned to Gisborne, and yesterday conducted the services at St . Andrew’sj Church.

A Santiago P.A. cable states that the Prince of Wales, and Prince George landed there after an aeroplane flight, from Vina del Mar.

Air. J. R. Kirk, of Gisborne, spent Christmas iu Hampshire staying with friends. He had previously been visiting in Hamburg. Air. Kirk left ou his return to New Zealand on February fith.

A Alclbourne P.A. cable states that Norman Brokos,.the tennis player, was admitted to hospital with an mpured head a 3 the result of a motoring accident. His car was forced over an embankment bv' another speeding car which hit and ran.

According ‘to a Brisbane P.A. cable the late John Darnell, of AYvnnum, left £17,000 to the Queensland University. £IO,OOO for the National Picture Gallery,. Brisbane, and £SOOO for necessitous indigent commercial travellers.

Sympathetic reference to the death t;f Mr. Walter Ei ndl av was made at; the monthly meeting , of, ,th e Cook bounty \V omen's Guild, ah‘d : a ti>. of condolence with the bereaved relatives was passed bv members' standing in silence. , • •

All* J. G. Barclay, a famqr,;- of Pukehuia, who opposedPtho lit. Hon. J. 05. Coates in tb e Jxaipara contest at the last general election, has been selected by tho Labor Party to contest- the Alarsden.. seat at the next election. —P.A. •

In the course of, a, wepk or so Jfche Director, of the Maori Hygiene dvHsion Trill relinquish, his present position ahcl proceed t» Cook Islands! to become chief medical officer*, in* ?the group, pritV headquarters at Rarotonga. . immediate. gucoessdriirill b*e,: appointed, but it' is ;/understood that the Director of the Public Hygiene division (Dr. T. MoKibhna), ,in addition to bis ... present .duties, will act as'administrative head of ttt« Maori Hygiene division,-i-F.Ap