PERSONAL HEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 April 1925, Page 4

PERSONAL HEMS.

At the monthly meeting of the Manaia Town Hoard last evening, a vote if sympathy with the Prime Minister, the. Right Hon. W. F. Massey, in his illness, together with wishes for his speedy recovery, was recorded. , A note from Miss 0. .Glenn states ;hat she and Mrs. B. C. Bennett are returning home by the Aorangi, leaving Vancouver on April 8. They are crossing to New York on the, Mauritania and expect an interesting trip. Friends of Miss C. Reilly, who is weaving for London shortly, will be interested to know that she will leave Hawera on Easter Monday, io connect with the Maunganui at Wellington, for Sydney, transferring then to the Australian Commonwealth liner Jervis Hay and travelling via Suez ( to London. All,will wish her a pleasant trip and an interesting and profitable time in the Old Country. Among Government officers who are retiring shortly is Mr •F. • Lundius, Crown Lands Ranger. During _ the Tarawera eruption he was at AVairoa, and assisted in the rescue of. Mrs Haszard, when her husband and .four children were killed, Mr Liindius had actually arranged to be at .the'. -White; Terraces' the day before the disaster, and wqs prevented by the illness of his companion’s wife. ’ There is -now 70 feet of mud on the spot, says a Wellington Press Association message. .

A con'Vact has been let for the installation of a battery of 24 searchlights for the permanent illumination of Niagara Falls., The contract is. for 60,000d01. It is expected the installation will be completed in time to have the opening ceremonies 'on May 24. the birthday of Queen Victoria, after whom the park on the Ontario side of the Falls isf named. The power to operate the lights is being donated by the Ontario Hydro Electric Commission. — (Renter’s "Trade Service.) ■ “The biggest .ever,” is a risky claim to publish, but it was made for the great New Zealand cheese shown at the Imperial Exhibition at Wembley last year. It brought a correction from Wisconsin, and the figures relating to the big cheese niade in that State and shown in Chicago sustained the claim. Another mammoth cheese from New Zealand, is to ; be shown at Wembley thi s year, and the Dairy produce Board reports that this great cheese, together with a number of assorted sizes, are being shipped jn April, and final arrangements have been made in connection with its exhibition in London, i Not may years ago Adelaide tram travellers handed their coppers to a studious-looking conductor who was a brilliant Egyptologist and archaelogist. While vforking as a tram conductor, he wrote a guide book on the Adelaide Museum and its Egyptian exhibits. He was summoned to Melbourne to advise the Australian War Museum on a mosaic when ■it was brought from Palestine, An. Adelaide paper says that it lias now transpired that the erstwhile ticket-seller is Mr. Allen Rowe, the Australian who proceeded to Egypt on research work, and who was fortunate in discovering at Giza the fourth dynasty tomb which may be that of Senefru.