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Grey River Argus, 12 July 1922, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mrs .Price, wife of Mr F. Price, proprietor of the Post Office Hotel, Westport, in company with her daughter are on a visit to Greymouth. Mr F. Kennedy, the well-known gasworks expert, who has been on a visit to his parents, Mr and Mrs J. Ken- I nedy, of Groymouth, loft yesterday on < his return to the North Island. t Mr 11. S. Yelverton, of Westport, f who has been appointed to succeed , Mr T. O’Callaghan at the Groymouth ] branch of the Bank of Now Zealand, will arrive on Monday next. . The Governor-General and Lady Jellieod purpose visiting Hawke’s Bay I this month. They will bo the guests of ' Sir Andrew Russell. On> July 21 Admiral Jcllicoe will unveil a war memorial at Waipawa. On Monday Mr Massey completed his tenth year of office as Prime Minister, he having taken office on July 10, 1912. The Reform Party presented him with a silver soup tureen. It is not known whether this gift is a forerunner of the Government’s policy of relieving unemployment presently. A pioneer in the person of Mr ThomI as 11. Fowler, died at Westport on Suni day at the Old People’s Home. He was : 78 years of age, and was a native of ' Cornwall, England and resided in New | Zealand for 50 years. Some years ago jhe left Westport for Christchurch, i where he resided for some, time and where his wife passed away. Mrs Mathewson is a daughter of deceased. A Press Association message from Carterton stated that at a representai five meeting of delegates from all parts of the Wairarapa held last night Mr J. W. Card, Mayor of Featherston .was unanimously selected as the Liberal-Labour candidate for the Wairarapa seat at the coming general election. After writing a very graphic story of the Wiltshire wreck, Mr 1:1. H. Kempton was promoted on the Auckland “Herald” stall', but has since received an excellent offer from the new Melbourne paper “The Sun,” and is leaving Auckland soon to take it up. Before he went to the war he had been for three months a junior cadet on the'“Herald.” Four years ago he lay wounded in the Hindenburg line." He returned practically without any profession and is only 24 years old now. Mr R. Nelson, who has taken up duties at Dunedin as Maintenance loreman, was farewclled by Cobden friends last week prior to his departure from Greymouth, a generous spread ' being provided at Scalmer’s Hotel. Mr M. Eggleton, who was in the chair, expressed the regret felt by all his friends at Mr Nelson’s departure, a s he had been a popular railway officer and a progressive citizen of Cobden. They were glad of his promotion, and would drink to his health and prosperity with enthusiasm. Many others present spoke in a similar strain. Mr Nelson jfeeliingly replied, expressing the regret of his wife and himself at leaving behind so many friends, among whom they had spent happy times. They invited anyone present to look them up on visiting Dunedin. Messrs Edgen, Nelson, Eggleton, Williams, and others contributed musical and elocutionary items, and a very happy 'evening ended with the singing of “Auld Lang Sync” and the National Anthem.