PERSONAL.

Grey River Argus, 8 July 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

1 A well-known Cobden resident, Mr - J. Hornsby, has successfully undergone r an operation on his eye at Christchurch. 3 Messrs T. E. Coates and W. R. Ket--1 tie, leave to-day for Wellington, where they will interview Cabinet Ministers on local district needs on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce. As president r and treasurer of the Jockey Club, they t will attend the Racing Conference. The death is recorded in a telegram ' from New Plymouth of the Very Rev ‘ Dean McKenna, at the age of 65 years. ’ He had ben 36 years in New Zealand, all but three of which he spent at New Plymouth. 5 The death occurred suddenly yester- , day of Rev Father Arkwright, parish priest of Kaikoura, at the age of 40 years. He came from England to “ New Zealand, and was for some time ‘ stationed at Westport. The Waterside Workers’ Unions are at present tendering evidence to the Arbitration Court with a view to a further agreement, West Coast repre- ’ seutatives going to Christchurch for ‘ the purpose and Mr C. Fraser, president of the Grey Watersidera* Union, and Mr H. Kirk (secretary) leave by to-day’s express to attend Mr T. Jack, of Christchurch, a former Cobdenite, is visiting Greymouth. District Nurso O’Brien, of Westport, has been appointed Sub-Matron ot Gisborne St Helen’s Hospital. Miss Marjory J>cott, daughter of Dr Seott, of Reefton, who is a student at Otago University, has had to undergo an operation for appendicitis, out is progressing favourably. It is reported that Jack Steel, the Greymouth representative, has been elected Vice-Captain of the All Blacks. Mr F. Muschamp, Karamea, who has been on a- six weeks’ holiday trip through Canterbury and South Canterbury, returns to Karamea by the Reefton train to-day. Mrs N. Huzzeff, a Reefton native, died at New Plymouth at the ago of 35, leaving a husband and 12 children. She was a daughter of the late Mr E. Bray, once manager of the Keep-it-Dark Mine, and Mrs F. Wills, of Reefton, is a sister. Mr P. McKenzie has tendered his resignation as the Greymouth District | High School representative on the I Technical School Board of Governors, in view of his transfer to Palmerston North. The School Committee last evening accepted the resignation. Messrs Tredinnick and Woodcock, president and secretary of the Westport Watersiders ’ Union, who arrived here last night proceed overlap today to Christchurch to attend a sitting of the Arbitration Court in connection with the making of a. new agreement .for waterside workers.