PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 August 1924, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Eearon, president of the Taranaki Rugby Union, will accompany n* e ,i. re P resen tative team leaving for Wellington on Friday. t n- ie x Governor-General (Viscount JeHieoe) was the guest of the Rotary at Napier yesterday, and after a visit to Hastings in the afternoon he attended a Savage Club korero in the evening with Viscountess Jellicoe. item Excellencies leave for Alasterton to-day.

a r ecelit session of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth, on the motion of Mi: John Houston, Air Brian Af alone, of Hawera. was admitted by the Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, as a solici- ? r of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

A Press Association message from Hamilton states that at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Co-opera-tive Dairy Co., Mr William Goodfellow announced that owing to ill-health he had found it necessary to withdraw from the position of managing director, but would continue to act in an advisory capacity. General regret was ex-, pressed by the meeting. Mr A. J. Sinclair was appointed to succeed Mr Goodfellow*. ,

Mr W. R. Russell, who is well-known in sporting circles throughout. Taranaki, has been appointed handicapper for the Hamilton Racing Club, which at last night ’s annual meeting decided to alter the name to the Waikato Racing Club. Mr Russell has also been appointed judge by the Taranaki Jockey Club for the Christmas and February meetings.

A visitor to Hawera yesterday > was M ( r E. P. Jupp, manager of the produce department in London for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agen6y Co., Ltd. Mr Jupp is on a tour of inspection of the Dominion branches, and is also looking into the dairy produce business for his company. This is his first visit to New Zealand, and he is very keenly enthusistic over the qpuntry, and very much interested in all he is seeing. He left Hawera for the South to-day, hut expects to be back in Taranaki early in October.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Goodacre, of New Plymouth, celebrated their golden wedding on Monday, when relatives and friends gathered at Messrs May and Arrowsmith’s. Mr. and Mrs. Goodacre were the recipients of quite a number of presents, and Mr. T. N. Blaekhall, in a felicitous speech, proposed their health. Other toasts were honoured, and at intervals during the evening music was provided. Three children are living, two daughters and one son, and one daughter and one son are deceased. There are eight grandchildren and one great-grand-child.