PERSONALS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11957, 30 May 1933, Page 4

PERSONALS

A London cablegram announces the deatli of Professor John GeorgeRobertson.—A ,P. A.

.Mr. C. R- -Viiddlemiss. ol the Atlantic United On Company, i s at present confined to his bed.

The Rope successively received exKing A House and Mr. De Valera, and conferred on the latter the highest papal orders for merit, m connection with the Dublin Euchaiistic Congress. .Mr. I>. L. Dallard has been appointed UiulinsSceretary of Justice to stiJeed Mr. R. I’. Ward. Ho "ill comjmio hi*. new duties with those of Controller-General of Prisons. The Minister of Justice, the Hon. ,f. |jfj. Cobbo, says the change is in keeping with the Government’s policy of economy.

Sympathetic reference io the death of Mr. G. AV. Humphreys, a former member of tho hoard, wag made by the chairman, Mr. J. Tombluson, at yesterday’s meeting of the Gisborne Harbor Board. A motion of condolence with the bereaved relatives was carried by all present standing in silence.

The late Mrs. Frances Gordon, wife of Mr. Alexander Gordon, of Ormond road, who wug interred' a, t Makaraka cemetery on Sunday, tv as born at Am.berley, Canterbury. She was married at Gore, but, ior over 40 years, wa s a resident, of this district where her sterling character won her a- host of friends. Besides luvr husband and one daughter, Mrs. Kelso, of Ormond, Mrs. Gordon Is survived by seven grandchildren ana two great-grandchildren Tho grandchildren are Messrs. AV. 11. Gordon, of Tuiii powerhouse, Arnold Gordon, and AV F. Kelso, of Ormond, and Misses D. Kelso, ,Ik Kelso, and D. Gordon all of Ormond. One son of the late Mrs. Gordon predeceased her by 23 year’s. ‘