PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 18 February 1926, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr and Mrs C. M. Haggett left Hawera this morning en route for Dunedin. Mr Haggett will attend the Hospital Board’s conference as one of v the Hawera ' Board’s representatives. v Messrs J. E. Campbell, R. Mortloek, r G. Appleyard and J. McKay intend leaving at the end of the present month by the Tofua for Fiji. They expect to ' be away about a month.

Mr and Mrs S. C.. Tonks and Mr and Mrs W. O. Williams are leaving at the end of this week by car. for Dunedin. After seeing the sights of the Exhibition, they intend returning via' the West Coast.

Rev. E. J. Orange, of Eltham, has accepted a call to Kilbirnie, and. will leave for thje scene of his new pastorate about the middle of March (says the Eltham Argus). A strong deputation of over 25 members and adherents of the Church in Eltham waited •poll the Presbytery and acquiesced jn the call regifetfully. Mr Orange has been minister at Knox Presbyterian Church for four years, during which he lias earned the highest respect and esteem not only of his church-people, , but also of the residents of Eltham as a who'e.

News has been received by an Auckland resident of the death of Lieuten- ' ant Frederick Kahn, one of the American naval aviators who was on board the Colorado when that ship was in that port with the fleet last August. The young officer, who wa6 regarded as one of the finest pilots in the service, crashed while performing flying exercises as part of his duty at the San Deigo naval base a few months ago, the cause of the accident being the snapping of a portion of his ’plane’s structure while the machine / was in mid-air.. While in Auckland Lieutenant Kahn, who was the senior \ aviator on the Colorado, was one of the officers who flew above the city every day. In this connection he was usually associated with Lieutenant Padford. He always led the machines in the displays of formation flying that were a feature of the fleet’s stay in Auckland.