PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 7 August 1926, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

At a meeting of directors subsequent to the annual general meeting of shareholders of the Normanby Dairy Go., Mr. F. AY. Atkins was appointed chairman

Air. R. AY. Lye, who has been telegraph engineer in charge of Hawke’s Bay and Poverty Bay districts fox- tlie past rive years, lias been promoted to Wanganui. Airs. Atadvu-y, of AYellington, a- -sister of Air. George Rlyan, of this town, passed through Hawera Lasf'evening on her way to- New Plymouth. All-. R. Johnstone, of Waipukurau, arrived by -the mail train last evening and will be a visitor in Hawera for -several days. Commissionex- R. Hoggard, Territorial Com plunder of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, has received orders to leave the Dominion and px-oceed to England prior to taking up a new appointment, the- locality of which is not stated. His successor will be Commissioner James Hav, lately commander in South Africa, and now on furlough in Sydney.

Mr. A. G. Wellsited, the commercial agent of the Railway Department, who has been on a business visit to Hawera, returned to Wellington by the -mail train this morning. Lieut. G. M. -McCaskill, who lias been on the -staff of the Defence Department in Hawera, and who is under transfer to India, left- for the south by the mail train this morning. A number o-f military -mien assembled at the station to -bid him farewell, amongst the unbeing Lieut-Colonel T. C. Sutherland (iManaia), Major D. E. Bremner, Captain H. G. Br-odie, and Lieut-. A. H. L. Sugden. Lieut. MeCaskill will sail ’by the Marama on August 20.

Mr. Bedford Buhner died at New Plymouth the other day" at the age of 84. He was a native of Nova- Scotia. About 30 years ago he took up farming in the Ka-ponga district, and later successfully followed this occupation in the Manga told and Lowgart-h districts. About ten (years ago he gave up active farming operations and lived in retirement in E Itham, going to New Plymouth six years ago. His wife died four years ago and he- is survived by" five -sons and two daughters.

V There is a Taranaki flavour q.bout the fol'owing paragraph from a Londoner’s letter in the Evening Standard of June 24 last, the -student referred to being a son of Mr end Mrs D. -S-y-mo, of Eltham. and an -old boy of the New Plymouth Boys’ High School: —Not all the official ceremonies of Oxford’s “Gommem” Week are concerned with the conferring of honorary degrees on distinguished! personages of riper years. Yesterday’s, Encaenia, saw the oublio recognition of the rather remarkable foods of Mr Ronald S>’me, an. undergraduate of Oriel. Mr Syme is older than most freshmen, for he is twentythree. But to have carried off at that age the Chancellor’s prize for Latin prose- and the Gaisford prize {or Greek is, I imagine, almost, if nob quite, a record in university prize competitions. Mr Syme, a New Zealander, is already M.A. of the- University" of New Zealand. He is not- a Rhodes -scholar.