PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 February 1925, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. and, Mrs. Willie Alexander, who have been visiting the Old Land, returned to Waverlev recently.

Mr. F. E. Wilson, Mayor of New Plymouth, has intimated that it is not his intention to seek re-election upon the expiry of his present term of office in April. Rev. Robertson Orr, of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Wellington leaves towards the end of the month on a visit to America

Mrs Clarkson, vice-president of the Auckland Croquet Association, is a visitor to Hawera to-day, in the course of a motor tour through Taranaki.

Mr. Justice H. H. Ostler will preside at the Taranaki session of the Supreme Court, which commences at New Plvmouth on Tuesday.

Mr Sinell, of the Native Trustee Department, will l>e in hi awe r a to-mor-row (Saturday) paying out six-monthly rents to the Maoris. He will be at the County Office.

Rev. W. Kelley, B.A. ol’ Trinity College, Dublin, and for some time Rector of Liau.vwater, near Belfast, is on his way out from England to take up his duties at, St. Stephen’s Parish, W'aver*ey, and is due here about the middle of March. During the war, Mr. Kelley served as a captain in the Inniskillin I< usuiers.

A vote of sympathy with Mr. V. H. Hobday, clerk of the Waimate West County Council, in the serious family trouble he had experienced since the previous meeting of the council, was passed prior to the consideration of routine business at yesterday’s meeting of the council.

The Bev. H. Wilson, who is leaving St. Stephen’s Church, Waverlev, to take up his dates at Paraparauinu, was farewelled by liis Waverle.v parishioners the other flay. Appreciative references were made to Mr Wilson’s services at Waverlev, and he was made the recipient of a travelling bag as a token of esteem. !

Mr. J. K. Heugban, of India, a brother of the Scottish singer, was in Hawera yesterday making arrangements for the visit of his celebrated brother to this town, where he will give a concert. Mr. Heugban spoke very favourably concerning Hawera and New Zealand, generally, and he considered that this was the finest country he' had seen in his travels.

A Sydney message states that Dr. Henry Koritsehoner, who is engaged in a research mission for the Academy of Science, Vienna, arrived by the Ormonde, en route to New Zealand. Sir Hurcules Read, who until four years ago and for over 40 years previously was in charge of the ethnographical and Oriental section of the British Museum, was also a passenger. He proceeds to New Zealand to-day on a pleasure trip, i