PERSONAL ITEMS.
Mr. T. B. Crump has left Elitham for Wellington, en .route for Sydney. Air. J. L. Campbell has returned to Eltham, having just done a nine months’ tour of Europe. Mrs. Campbell and her daughter are making a * short .stay in Auckland prior to coming home. A Christchurch message states that advice has been received there that Dr. D. B. Copland, formerly of Canterbury College and now Dean of the Department of Commerce at Alelbourne University, has been appointed to act as representative in Australia of the Laura Spellman Rockefeller memorial, which is devoted to economic and social research. Lieuit-Oolonel James Bray, Social Secretary of the Salvation Army in New Zealand and well-known and highly esteemed throughout the Dominion, retires at the end of the year from active service and will l go to Melbourne to reside, says a Press Association message from Wellington. He will be officially farewelled 'by the Army next Sunday at Wellington. Lieut.-Qoi. Bray bad the destination of being the oldest active male officer in the Southern Hemisphere and has been responsible for many social reforms for the past forty years. For fifteen years he has been an official visitor to flie prisons in New Zealand, a privilege accorded by the Government in recognition of the assistance lie rendered Sir John Findlay in framing the Reformative Institutions Act, by means of which improved prison methods were made possible. A pioneer colonist and old settler of the Haw-era district in the person of Mr Samuel Bowman, died this morning at the residence of his son, Mr C. Bowman, general manager of the Hawera Dairy Factory Co., Ltd. The late Air Bowman was, in his earlier days, connected with dairying, having been a factory manager in the South Island, and one of the oldest in the history of the industry. After coming from the south a good few years ago he settled at Normanby. For some time past he had lived with his son. Aluch* sympathy will be feft with his relatives iji their sorrow.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 December 1925, Page 4
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339PERSONAL ITEMS. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 December 1925, Page 4
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