PERSONAL.

Grey River Argus, 17 January 1928, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mrs F. Stewart, of the Hutt, Wellington, is at present on a short visit to Reefton. Mrs K. Russell, of the Park Hotel, is at present visiting the Cold Lakes of Hie South Island. Miss M. Shiel, of Christchurch, is on a holiday visit to Reefton, and is the guest of Mr and Mrs P. Carmichael, Grey Road. Miss Mitchell, of the Postal Department, Wellington, after a visit to her relatives at Stafford, left yesterday for the Mt. Cook Hermitage. Mr Joe Comerford, of the Public Works Office staff at Westport, leaves there on Thursday for Wellington, to which place lie has been transferred. Mr A. King, formerly of the repairing staff of Hannah and Co’s local boot emporium, is at present in a precarious state of health in hospital at Christchurch. An Auckland wire states that tl.e Pittsburg millionaire, Mr H. Heinz, who lias arrived there by the liner Aorangi, made Hie trip to engage >:n catching big fish at tin* Bay of Islands. Air S. F. Tomlinson’s Ford lorry was destroyed by lire at Blaketown. tnc owner finding the radiator ablaze when turning Hie vehicle*, which was insured for £75 in the N.Z. Insurance Coy. The hot weather is manifesting itself most unpleasantly in the vicinity of many of the vents of borough sewerage system, so that an early downpour of rain would tend to minimise the danger of any gastric ailments in the community.

Brother Egbert, formerly of Wellington and T'imaru, has been appointed to take charge of the Invercargill Al a l ist Brothers’ School. He will lie assisted by Brothers Oswin, Ernan ami Peter. The Borough staff has been engaged in cutting a channel to bring a flow of water from the river into the sump of the municipal water supply. The recent dry weather reduced the river level so low that the sump had become abnormally low, but the channel has tended to restore the normal depth. Guests a 4 Revington’s Hotel include. Alisses Sherman and Wicks (Adelaide), Alisses Stewart (2) (Adelaide), Mrs Gillies (Reefton), Airs Henniker (Reefton), Alisses Lowen and Hackett (Adelaid'?), Air and Airs T. Atwood (Nelson), Alessrs N. Tungey (Christchurch), T._ Afiller, A. T. Wysocki. J. Slee (Christchurch), F. W. Bostock (Christchurch), 11. Levick (Nelson), and D. Reece (Christchurch).

The Westland Racing Club is colsidering the advisability of introducing the false rail at the turns to and from the straight on its course, and the Secretary of the Club (AL- D. J. Evans) when shortly attending th? Racing Conference, intends making a visit to Trentham to investigate the utility of the contrivance, which is by ma n y considered to give a fairer chance for all competitors in races. Air R. Masters, formerly M.P. for Stratford, who left Westport yesterday, after a brief business visit, for Wellington, will at the latter place (says the Westport News) attend a meeting having in view the forthcoming general election. He is a Director of the Onakaka Iron and Steel Coy., and stated the Company is shipping 500 tons of pig iron to Australia, notwithstanding that there is an adverse tariff of £3 per ton in favour of Australian iron. This is made possible by the superior quality of the Onakaka iron. Mr. P. Harvey, headquarter of the Sumner Deal and Dumb School and Airs Harvey, last week paid a visit to the Buller District, returning overland this week. They paid aKramea a visit, and were delighted with the scenery, especially that of Lake Hanlon and’ its surroundings. The present summer has seen a great increase in the’ visitors to the West Coast, including a large number from Nelson and Canterbury, and the indications are that the West Coast tourists are of a boom. One of the best known and most genial members of the community at the Greymouth Old People’s Home, ATr John Boyle, died yesterday. The deceased, who was a native of Scotland, had reached Hie age of 86 years, and despite the affliction of blindness he was one of the most genial of people,; who made friends of everybody who came into contact with him. He had been on the Coast since the early days, and followed the fortunes of the gold miner. The funeral takes place this morning leaving St Patrick’s Church, after Requiem Alass, for Karoro Cemetery at 9.30 o’clock.

The back country all along the West Coast was yesterday shaded in a. haze of smoke, and Greymouth had a bluish atmosphere in the morning. Unless the drought is soon broken the State Forest Service will doubtless experience some anxiety in preventing the destruction of standing bush in several localities. At Baxter’s Siding a large number of sleepers belonging to Buchanan and Party have been destroyed, while a couple of miles of bush tramway belonging to Newman and O’Neill’s mill has also been burned, and over a third of a mile of Parker Bros. ’ bush tramway at Awatuna, Westland, has also been destroyed.

A master mariner referring the other day in Greymouth to the Tasman flight, remarked that there was a storm belt in the Tasman Sea, which was subject to some disturbances from which the coastal margins of the sea were quite free, so that when the weather was fine say along the West Coast, a storm might be raging within the belt in question only a couple of hundred miles from the shore. This, he thought, should be taken into consideration in contemplating a flight across the Tas

man, as also in seeking a solution* of the mystery of the recent flight.

Friends of Mr T. Furlong, who until recently was licensee of the Railway Hotel, Ngahere, and of Mrs Furlong, who shortly leave for Nelson, met at the Ngahere Hotel on Saturday afternoon last, for the purpose of wishing them au revoir and good luck in their new sphere. Air Riddiford, in presenting the guests with a travelling rug. mentioned the regret which was felt at the impending departure of Mr and Mrs Furlong, both of whom in their five years’ residence in Ngahere had proved themselves worthy members of the community. Several other speakers added their good wishes to Mr and Mrs Furlong, enumerating the good qualities which had popularised them in the district. After Mr Furlong had suitably responded, the singing of “For. They Are Jolly Good Fellows” and “Auld Lang Syne” brought a very pleasant function to a conclusion.

The new Director of Geological Survey in N.Z., Dr Henderson, was born in New Zealand, and educated at the High Street State School, Dunedin, Otago Boys’ High School, Otago University, and School of Minos. He obtained the degree of B.Sc. in 1902, M.A. in 1906, D.Sc. in 1908, and B.Sc. in Metallurgical Engineering in 1913. Up also holds the certificate of a mine and land surveyor. In 1904, after gaining experience in practical mining at Den niston and Reef ton, Dr Henderson was appointed Director of the Reefton School of Mines. In 1911 he joined the staff of the Geological Survey as mining geologist, from which position he has now been promoted to that of Director. In addition to being the writer of several bulletins published by the Geological Survey, Dr Henderson has contributed many papers to scientific hnd technical journals.