PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 December 1924, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Lord Jellicoe arrived at Sydney by the Tahiti on Saturday afternoon, and later departed for Melbourne. An Auckland telegram announces the death, at the age of 76, of Mr Robert Fenwick, successor to the T. and. S. Moxrin Hardware Co., and brother to Sir George Fenwick. Constable A. C. Davis, of Wellington, has been transferred to New Plymouth, to take the place of Constable Dimmer, who has been transferred to Waihi. Some time ago a report was published m New Zealand that W. H. (“Boy”) Morkel, of the Springbok Rugby football team, which visited the Dominion in 1921, had died, and acting upon this the New Zeaalnd Rugby Union cabled an expression of sympathy to South Africa. According to advice from the secretary c.f the South African Rugby Union, the report was incorrect. “Boy” Morkel, of football fame, is very .much alive. The reported death was that of another Morkel, also known in South Africa as “Boy.” The secretary of the South African Rugby Union writes The “Boy” Morkel who died is not the one who visited you, but is a second cousin of his, and is better known as a cricketer than a footballer. The “Roy 1 ’ Morkel known to New Zealanders is still going strong, and is very fit.