PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 January 1928, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr E. K. Cameron left by car this morning on a short business trip to Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne. Mr F. Gillanders left yesterday for Wellington on a short business trip. En route for Taihape and Levin A. and P. Shews, Mr R. MeCay left Hawera yesterday.

Mr and Mrs J. D. Broughton, of Wellington, stayed in Hawera last evening on their way to Mount Egmont. They were guests at the Commercial Hotel. Sir Dyco Duckworth, the eminent physician, died on January 20 at the age of 87 (says a British Official Wireless message). He was a close friend of King Edward, to whom when Prince of Wales he was medical adviser. Mr E. Bary, headmaster of the Eltham school, "has been appointed to a similar position at a Palmerston North school, under the Wanganui Education Board, and takes up his new duties m March next. . At the bowling greens in New I lymouth at the opening of the tourney yesterday sincere tributes were paid to the memory of Mr Stanley Shaw, who had been an enthusiastic member or the New Plymouth Club. Messrs T. A. Winks and J. R. Corrigan left this morning by mail train for Wellington, where they will attend the meeting of the Dairy Control Board. They will return to Hawera on Thursday. „ • Rear-Admiral Victor Blue, who was on the retired list, died yesterday, according to a New York cablegram. He served as commander of the battleship Texas operating in Earl Beattie’s North Sea fleet during the war with Germany. He was present at the suirender of the German fleet.

Major-General Goethals, whose death is reported, was born in 1858. He entered the U.S. Military Academy m 1880 as a second-lieutenant of Engineers and served as Chief of Engineers in the Hispamo-American War of ISOs. Thereafter he was a member of the Board of Coastal Fortifications. He was appointed Chief Engineer of. the Panama Canal Construction in February, 1907, and carried that enterprise through to a successful termination and thereafter was created the first Civil Governor of the Panama Canal zone. During the Great War he had the task of organising all transport, munitions and storage services for the newly-raised American armies.

Referring to the appointment of Rev J Ri Young, of Ross and ‘South Westland, to St. Mary’s, Hawera, the Bishop of Christchurch wrote in the “Church News” that “Mr Young’s going will be deeply felt not only in Westland, but throughout the Diocese. He seemed uniquely fitted by his gifts of physical strength, spiritual directness, 'sympathy and humour for the difficult work of s ueh a Parish as Ross, and we are deeply grateful for what he has added to the noble traditions of that Parish. May he be equally happy and make others equally happy in Hawera —till we bring him back. ’ Mr Young is due to reach Hawerd on February 16.