PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 25 June 1928, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Among the guests at present staying at the Central Hotel are Messrs J. Proud, A. E. Sweaney and E. G. Martin, who comprise the Australian Dairy Managers Associations ’ diglegattes' to

Many friends in Hawera of Mrs. F. C. Spratt will learn with regret of the death of her mother, Mrs. M. Robertson, who lived with Mrs. Spratt for a considerable time 1 until they left for Wellington. -

A,t the opening of the session of the Court of Appeal! this morning, Mir A. Gray, K.C., representing the New: Zealand Daw Society, referred to the recent death of Sir John Plo,siting, foimei judge, and; gave a resume of the life ol theriate judge, mentioning the qualities which had made him such an able judge and) earned for him the respect and esteem of members of the Bar. Mr H. F. Johnston ,of the Wellington Daw Society, spoke in similar terms, states a Press Association message from Wei-' lington.

During the alpine tramp yesterday at the mountain one of the party who wm trying his. prowess .in a snow sledge met with a painful though minor injury, through the sledge suddenly taking a isharp turn and capsizing with the result that he received a nasty cut on the body by coming m contact with an upturned ice-axe. fortunately there was a member of the party who understood first a,id. and atfer staunching the blood, the suffetei was able to proceed with the rest or the party.

Heavily encrusted with marine growth, the old steamer Paloona is a.t present in dry dock at Port Ohalmers for her final docking: (states the “Otago Daily Times”). After being withdrawn from the intercolonial running, in which she was engaged for many years, the Paloona remained for a long time at anchor in the lower harbour. A few montihs 1 ago, she was brought alongside the Union Steam Ship Comjpany’s wharf at Port Chalmers, to be dismantled. Stripped of all the fittings and appointments of a passenger steamer, she had been reduced to a mere shell when she went into dry dock a, few days ago for the removal of her propeller, tail shaft, and several pieces of heavy. machinery. The Paloona (ex Zeailandia) is now classified, for disposal,, a® the steel hull of an old steamer.