PERSONAI ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 31 October 1928, Page 6

PERSONAI ITEMS.

Mr.' R. Hogg, of Wellington, .who has been on a lecturing tour of Taranaki, left this morning by the mail train. He .speaks at Foxton to-night. A welcome was tendered to "Mr. E. C. Evetts, headmaster of Okaiawa school, at the. ordinary meeting of the school committee. The chairman, - in welcoming him, expressed the hope that he would long remain in charge of the - school., . , . M.r T. H. AlcWifliain, radio operator on the Southern Cross; has hooked his passage for return' to Wellington foy-tlie Maikura sailing from, Sydney 'on Thursday. The Prince of Wales is now returning to Kenya: Colony from. Uganda, says an official wireless message.. ,He passed through Kampala, .the native capital of Uganda-, on Monday, when thousands' of natives-lined the route and cheered His Royal Highness. At Jinja there was ai 'great gathering oif chiefs and notables to bid him farewell. The death is announced from Capetown of Sir Lewis' Michell, one of South Africa I ’s -grand old men, who was . confidential financial adviser to Cecil Rhodes. "Ho was 86 years of age. Sir Lewis was l a director of the British South Africa, Company and for many years was general manager .of the Stan-! dard Bank of South Africa. He began his career as a junior clerk in a hank near Plymouth. He held office without, portfolio in the Jameson Cape Colony Cabinet and was also', a member of the National Convention' which led' to the Union of South Africa.—British Official , Wireless.