PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 2 May 1928, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mrs. J. McCarty has returned to Pa tea from a visit to Napier. Mr. c. D. Morpeth, of Wellington, is on a short business -v r isi"t> ~to Hawera.

Colonel C. Guy Powles, who is at ■present on a short visit to Hawera, is a guest at the Central Hotel. Major Sandies, A.Q.M.S., Central Military Command, passed through 'Hawera last evening en route to New Plymouth on departmental business. Major Dixon, manager of the Salvation Army Boys’ Home at Eltham, lin,s received notice of 'his transfer. His successor .bias not yi?t been announced. Mr. L. Ormsby, of the Bank of New Zealand staff at Wanganui, and formerly of Patea, has been transferred to Auckland. Police Sergeant S. J. Martin, of Now Plymouth, has received notice of his transfer to Dannevirke. iSergeant MacGregor, of Christchurch, will be transferred to New Plymouth. At the householders’ meeting held at Mokoia a vote of sympathy with Miss M. A. Bremner, late assistant teacher - , in the loss she had sustained through the death of her father, was carried in the usual manner. .

A visitor to Eltham this week has been Mr B. Dive, Mayor of Tauranga, and formerly a leading public man of Eltham, and member of Parliament for a term. Mr Dive at one time lived in Hawera. -»*

The death occurred at Christchurch on April 24, somewhat suddenly, of Mr Robert Stone Florance; a retired magistrate. Mr Florance’s career was remarkable; he started work as a printer’s boy, and ultimately became a magistrate.' After being called) to the Magisterial Bench, he saw service in various parts of New Zealand, both north and south, and was for some time in the Chatham Islands, where the magistrate has to be a man of many parts, such as a postmaster, registrar of births, deaths, and marriages, etc*. He retired on superannuation seven years ago, and went to live in a property. he owned at Russell.