PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 6 August 1928, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr Geo. Syme, junr., left by the mail train this morning en route to Taihiape on a, short business trip.

■Mr H. G. 'Dickie, M.P., was a passenger by the mail train for Wellington this morning.

Mr R. Mintopt, of Palmerston North, is in town for a few days, and during his stay in Hawera is a guest at the Ggunonb Hotel. Sir William Tyrrell, the new British Ambassador to France, was received at Rambouillet oil Friday last- by President Douniergue, to whom he presented liis letters of credit. —British Official Wireless. The Itt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Prime, Minister of Great Britain, who celebrated his .sixty-first birthday on Friday last, is spending the first portion of his summer holiday in his Worcestershire home. He will leave for Aix les Baines at the end of the week. British Official Wireless.

At flit' an'nuni mooting- of. the Halve ra .lorsey 'Cattle Club on 'Saturday, mention ivas made of the valuable services rendered to the club toy the secretary (Mr It. ADcOav) during his term, of office, a vote of thanks being on rri ed toy accl am a tio n.

A, Press Association ‘message from Dunedin reports the death of Air R. O. Jones, aged 75, the managing director of Turnbull, Jones, Ltd. The deceased wa/si at one time chief electrical engineer foil* the Union Company and later, with M«r Robert Turnbull, of Wellington, founded the electrical firm of Turnbull anti Jones. . ,

Air. J. A. Dunning, New Zealand Rhodes scholar in 1925, has completed his studies at Oxford University, and is returning to the Dominion by the steamer Corinthic, due in Wellington on August 27. Dr. Dunning intends to take up a position on the staff of the John McGfashan College, Dunedin. An official announcement has been made that Sir Austen Chamberlain is suffering from a mild attack of Inxm-elio-pneumonia, states a British official wireless message. He is progressing satisfactorily, and his condition gives no cause for anxiety. Sir Austen hopes to have sufficiently recovered to be able to leave at the end of the month for Pan’s and Geneva.