PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 August 1925, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

• A meeting of the Reform Party at Auckland last night selected Miss. Ellen Melville as official candidate for the Grey Lynn electorate. Mrs J. G. Osborne, accompanied by Mr M. Osborne, left Hawera this morning for Wellington by the mail train. Mr J. G. Osborne expects to be leaving llawera duriug the coming week.

Mr J. M. Griffiths, who has been acting m the position temporarily has been appointed secretary of the Wellington Racing Club (says a Wellington Press Association message). A Chicago message says -that Charles Clark, widely known as a baritone concert singer and professor of vocal music at the Bush Conservatory, died while filling an engagement at a local theatre, and his wife died a short time later from shock. V farewell was tendered the other dav to Mr. E. R. Bonnington by the football, tennis, and golf clubs of Opunake. Mr. Bonnington was presented with a handsome travelling rug in recognition of the interest he had! taken in the various clubs. Appreciation of the service given to the company by Mr T. J. Salmon, secretary of the Ararat-a Dairy pany. was expressed by the chairman at the annual meeting yesterday. Mr Salmon, said the chairman, had proved his worth beyond doubt, and was always up to date in his work. He personally would like also to acknowledge Mr Salmon’s unfailing courtesy and his readiness at all times to help him in every possible way. Mr. W. A. Guy; of Matapu, who as, a New Zealand and also a Taranaki Rugby Union selctor, is a well-known figure in footba'l circles, left yesterday en route to Napieir, where he intends being present at to-day s Ranfurly Shield match between Hawke s Bay and Canterbury. Nurse Linda M. Grant, of Hawera, has been successful in passing the recent State examination for nurses with Honours, her total marks being over 75 per cent, of the possible number. Other successful candidates include Nurses Grace Carmichael, Marjorie B. Proffit, Dorothy M. Sage (Hawera), Ida Robson (Patea and Auckland), Mary McKay (Patea). Nurse Faragher received a partial pass.

Dr. Gye, whose research work in relation to cancer, has suddenly made him famous all over the world, is only 40 years of age. He began fife as a railway clerk, but spent every spare penny he had on books, and as a result of spare-time .study took the B.Sc. degree. Then he went to Edinburgh to study medicine, working as a teacher in order to pay his way. Thus, Dr. Gye graduated M.B. and M.D. He served four years in France with a movable laboratory. The long and faithful service given to the Ararat a Dairy Co. by the late manager, Mr. P. A. Lundberg, was mentioned by the c-hairman at the annual meeting yesterday. He .said that the thanks of the settlers and suppliers were due to Mr. Lundberg for the part he had taken in the 'welfare of the district. The manager had been successful in his work and was esteemed by t-he department and 'by suppliers. He had done something for everyone, and they we re glad they were not losing him as a settler, for lie had taken np land at Arara.ta and was now a dairy farmer of the district.

Mr D. R. Copper, of Auckland, Grand Master of the Independent. Order of Oddfellows of New Zealand, who is making a tour of the North Island lodges, arrived in Taranaki last evening. Coining off the mail train at Hawera, he was met by Messrs A. G. Robertson, D.D.G.M. for South Taranaki, and P. H. Trim, P.D.G.M., who took Mr Cooper through to Stratford, where a most successful combined meeting of district lodges was held last night. To-day the Dominion Grand Master went on to New Plymouth, where a meeting is to be held to-night. To-morrow night he will meet the brethren of this end of the province in a combined meeting at Okaiawa, andl on Friday he will leave for Wanganui. Many old residents of Taranaki will learn with regret of the death yesterday at New Plymouth of Mrs. Maekay, widow of the late Mr. Joseph Maekay. For the last nineteen yeans Mrs. Maekay had lived in New Plymouth, and she had made n\any friends in and around the town. She and Mr. Maekay came to New Zealand many years ago and lived in Nelson, where Mr. Maekay was on the staff of the Boys’ College. About 1880 they came to Wellington, where Mr. Maekay wais appointed principal of Wellington College, and they were there for about twelve years when they 'settled m Taranaki, taking up a farm at Midhirst, and after a trip to the Old Country they retired to New Plymouth, where Mr. Maekay died some years ago. Many old boys of Nelson and Wellington Colleges will learn with regret the death of one who while at those .schools was a good friend to them all. Miss J. Maekay and a married daughter, two of her children, are residents of New Plymouth, and to them will go out much sympathy in their sorrow.