PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 September 1928, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr J. G. Osborne, of Wellington and formerly of Haiwera, was in town this morning anil later left for New Plymouth. He intended to return this evening. The death is announced of Mr Thomas lvineaid, aged' 74, a former, member of the Ohriste-hurch City Council and .proprietor of a well-known grocery business, states a Christchurch Press Association message. Mrs. Wren, one of tlie first settlers on the Tokaora block, has sold her property, and intends to reside in the north and in Bay of Plenty district for some time. The block, Livingston’s Estate, was purchased l»y the Government in 1902, and Mr. and Mrs. Wren settled there in that year. Miss M. Quin, who for a number of years has been an enthusiastic member of the E-ltham Horticultural Society, was presented last night -by the president, Mr A. Best, with a .pair of silver vases in appreciation of her services on the committee. Miss Quin is leaving the district.

On the eve of his departure on transfer to Wellington, Mr J. Kirkpatrick, of the Hawera. Post Office staff, was met iby his fellow workers yesterday afternoon, when best wishes were expressed for his future welfare, and when he was made the recipient of a gift as a token of their esteem. Mr Kirkpatrick left iby mail train to-day for Wellington. On the recommendation of M. Paul Serre, French Consul in Auckland, the French Government has conferred on Mr James Hislop, who recently retired' from the .position of Under-Secretary of the Department of Internal Affairs, the order of “Officer d© L’lnstrUotion Publique.” M. Serre said the. award wa)s mad© ip recognition of Mr Hislop’s services to the French missions under General Pa.u; and Admiral Giliby, and for his unflail wig kindness to officers and men of the French warships which have visited New Zealand. ■Professor Edward Perciviai, of Leeds University, who has accepted; the Chair of Biology at Canterbury University College will probably ibe leaving for New Zealand with his wife and daughter in Deoemlber (writes the “Post’s” London correspondent). His early training was as a farmer, and he still retains an interest in the pursuit. Hus college training included seven years of agricultural education, and he took the National Diploma, in Agriculture with honours. His work reqently has been tire study of streams, in connection with the organisms which form the bulk of fish food. At present he is loaned to the Marine Biological Laboratory at Plymouth for the purpose of investigating the fauna of certain est-uaries, again in connection with the growth of fish.