PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 6 April 1925, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

A Wellington message states _ that last night the condition of the Premier had not ehanged. . The Rev. H. C. Isaacson, vicar of .Tohnsonville, has been appointed vicar of All Saints’ Church, Elthain, in succession to the Rev. H. L. Goldthorpe. , A Reuter message reports the death at Nice of the famous ex-operatic tenor, Jean de Reszke, Air who has been a member of the railway staff at Hawera for a number of years, has been transferred to the relieving staff at Helensville. Air Cummane has been a most popular official, and op, Saturday evening the railway staff gathered to wish him every success in his. new sphere. A presentation suit case will be forwarded on to him.

Air W. Laing, of the Land and ,Survey office. New Plymouth, who is ’ retiring on superannuation, was made the recipient of presentations by the staff' on Thursday afteroon. During his service with the Department Air Gaing has carried out extensive sur veys in the country known as the Waitaanga and in the Alohakatino and Togaporutu valleys and around Whangamomona. and -explored and surveyed many roads in these localities. In the Waitotara Valley, also, in Southern Taranaki, Air Laing carried out extensive surveys, and he had left a ■record on the survey history of land settlement in Taranaki generally. The retirement is announced of Air. L. C. E. Hiamaan, chief accountant of the New Zealand railways Air. H.auiiPia.n. was educated at' Dunedin and joined the Rladlways Department ; in 1884. He leaves Wellington on the 28th for Sen Francisco, and while in Aimenica will represent the Hail ways of New Zealand at the annual convention of the American Aeod-unting Railway Officers’ Association. Air. and Airs. Hama an will then visit, England before returning home (says, a Wellington. Press Association message) . ' ;