PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 September 1925, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. R. Stevens, who has been on the staff of the Eltham Post Office for nine months, has boon transferred to Waipukurau. Mr J. W. Fenton, Mayor of Kaitangata and a member of the (South Otago Hospital Board, will be Labour’s nominee for the Clutha seat. • At a meeting of the Southland Presbytery a call to the Rev. Victor Bell, of Newtown, Sydney, to St. Paul’s, Invercargill, was sustained.

Mr "Mark Fagan, of Tarakohe, Takaka, for some years chairman of the luangahua Hospital Board, has been selected as the Labour candidate for the Motueka seat.

Mr. P. White, of the Auckland goods staff of the railways, has been transferred to Stratford to replace Mr. W. O’Reilly. Mr. and Mrs. O’Reilly will leave for Palmerston North on 'Thursday.

'The first travelling art scholarship offered in New Zealand has been won by Mr. W. E. J. Cook, a student and part time teacher at the Canterbury School of Art. The award he gained is the Sawtell Scholarship, given by the Society for Imperial Culture, and the holder will be able to study for two years at some European art school. Archbishop Redwood, aged 80, Archbishop of New Zealand, and one of the oldest prelates in the World, arrived in Sydney by the Tahiti from New Zealand on September 5. So little did the rough weather into which the vessel ran trouble the Archbishop that he played on his violin, a Strad, to cheer his" fellow passengers, says the Sydney Morning Herald. The. Hawera Scottish Society will hold a farewell social to Miss F. Smith next Tuesday evening in the Savoy Tea Rooms. Miss Smith, who has been a very energetic member of the executive of the society since its inception, will leave Hawera shortly to be married.

Mr W. D. Ross, late manager of the Eltham branch of the Bank of New South Wales and now manager at Frankton, is at present in Eltham on a short visit.

Dr. Cooper, who lias practised in Eltham for a number of years, has sold his practice, including Mount View Hospital, to. Dr. Saunders, of Stratford. Dr. Cooper intends starting.on a holiday trip to England early in November. On his return to New Zealand he will not re-engage in general practise.

A presentation will shortly be made to the Hon. D. H. Guthrie on his retirement from the political life of the Dominion. Many people who are politically opposed to Mr Guthrie have ex. pressed their wish to join in the presentation, and it is proposed that the function will he of a strictly non-party nature. Mr 0. F. Johnston, of “The Pines,” Feilding, lias kindly placed his grounds and residence at the disposal of the committee, and it is proposed to make the presentation at a garden party to be held oil a date suitable to Mr Guthrie.

Mr Will J. French, of San Francisco, California, and Mr C. H. Poole, exM.P. of Auckland, are visitors to Hawera, and will speak in the Grand Theatre to-morrow night at 8 o’clock. Mr C. H. Poole is known as one of New Zealand’s most accomplished platform speakers—racy, humorous) and informative. He has recently returned from America after four years’ engagement with Chautauqua. He knows the United States of America better than, perhaps, any other New Zealander, and will tell of prohibition in America as seen through New Zealand eyes.