PERSONALS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11835, 4 January 1933, Page 4

PERSONALS

Mr. 0. Oliuvoh bat left Gisborne, ou route tor Timarn. where be will attend the annual conference of the New Zealand Professional Athletic and Cycling Union thi° week.

Regret- will be reft hv the many friends of Mrs. E. D. Hayes on bearing that she has had to enter C’ook Hospital for treatment of a chronic nerve trouble,.

Mr. R. W. Flanagan, of the Hastings I’ost Office, has received notice of his transfer to the Tokoinam Bay office and takes over his new duties in the course, of a. few days.

As the result of a recount of the points gained in the dancing sections under 12 at the To Knrnka sports, the medal presented by Miss E. Curtis has been awarded to Shelia Munro.

Tbe Rev. Father William O’Leary, director of Riverview Observatory. Sydney, and an eminent authority on earthquakes, has arrived to study earthquake conditions in the Dominion.—Press Assn.

Mr. W. Mclntyre, who recently retired from the position of Inspector of Machinery at Invercargill, and “Mrs. Mclntyre were reednt visitors to Gisborne whore they looked up many old friends including Mr. and Mrs. D. Miller and Mr. and Mrs. j.' S. Allan.

Fathers Mally and Cugnon, of St. Bernard Hospice, left with a number of St. Bernard dogs for the Himalayas, where they intend to establish a similar hospice at Sla Pass, at an altitude of 14,000 ft., on the borders of India, Tibet, and China.— A.P.A.

Members of the staff of Messrs. Potties Ltd,. assembled on New Year’s Evo to bid farewell to Mi®s M. E. Capstick, who is leaving borne to take up a position with the Auckland firm of Messrs. RendeH’s Ltd. A parting gift from the staff took the form of a morocco handbag, this being accompanied by the host of wishes for Miss Capstick’s success in the future.

American files to hand chronicle the death in England on November 28 of Mr. James Ord Hume, one of the most famous men in British brass band circles. The late Mr. Hume was a very clever "arranger” of music for brass bands, and was on cue occasion in England the associate or Sir Arthur Sullivan in "arranging” the music for a great band festival. He was also a composer of some note, and several of his marches are included in the repertoire of most brass bands. The “8.8. and C.F.” march, by J. Ord Hume, was the A. grade band march test at the last, contest in Wellington. His "Twentieth Century” and "Brilliant” marclies are also well-known. Mr. Hume visile' l New Zealand in 1903,* when he acted as .judge at a big contest held in Mastertpn,