PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 June 1924, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

~ , J l r J - 1 Corrigan. M.P. for Patea, leturned to Hawera by the mail train tel,! 8 ' from % Main Trunk, where be had been spending a. few days. wr Ai a Auck!; ll lcl tel ugjram reports that Mi Seering H. Mathews died on Wediiesday, aged So. Re was one of Auckland s earliest pioneers and an ardent node AVOrker for the Baptist TaherMr P. J H. W hite has been nominaed lor election , to the Education Board by the Inglewood, Awakino, Lepperton, Frankley, Bell Block, Rahotii, Bower Mangorei, Kara, Onunake and I umho. School Committees. / T The death occurred in Melbourne on June 2 of Captain H. J. Williams, who was well-known in the New Zealand coastal and inter-coronial trade as an officer and captain in the employ of the union Steamship Company. Mr, A. Bell, secretary of the Education Department, has been appointed secretary of the General Council of Education, in succession to Mr W E Spencer.' News has been received of the death ot Mr. William Robinson Roddick chief engineer of the Federal Line steamer Westmoreland. Mr. Roddick PlfA death on board the vessel on May 17, shortly after her arrival at the London docks .from New Zealand. A delightful social was held on Wednesday night in the Pembroke Road school m honour of Mr G. Gray the popular manager of the Pembroke'Dairy Company, who is shortly relinquishing his position. Mr. Belcher, chairman of the company, eulogised the good work done by Mr. Gray, and on behalf of the residents of the district presented Mr. and Mrs. Gray with a silver tea set and tray, suitably inscribed.— Post. Mr D. J. Goodwin, who is visitin" Europe and the Old Country, has writ! ten to the editor from Florence. He sends a post-card of the great door (Lorenzo Gilberti) of the baptistery, and a' book of thirty-two very interesting views of the 'beautiful city, the colourings being excellent. Mr' Goodwin, who writes under date April 29, states, that his journey to London is via Naples, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Monte Carlo and Paris. He saj's: “If avone is taking this route, two or three weeks later would he better, on account of being Easter, accommodation being taxed.” Mr Goodwin reached Naples on April 17.