PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 January 1929, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr 0. H. Jenkins, of the editorial staff of the “Dominion,” has been appointed editor of the. Wanganui ‘ ‘-Chronicle. ’ ’

Among the guests staying at the Commercial Hotel are Messrs Westwood and O’Connor.

Visitors to Hawera staying at the White Hart Hotel are Mr and Mrs E. S. Foster (Palmerston North), Mr ft. Mark (Auckland), and Mr and Mrs A. Hynes (Auckland).

The death is announced in a London (cable of the Rev. Robert James Grundy, who visited Australia and New Zealand in connection with the Mission for Lepere. Guests at the Central Hotel for race week are Mr and Mrs Gattrell (Marton), Mr and Mrs R. McMillan (Palmerston North), and Messrs P. Griffon and’ J. McParland (Wellington).

The death of -the Rev. W. S. Potter, aged 74, is reported in ai Press Association telegram from Auckland. He Celebrated his jubilee as a Methodist minister in 1926.

Major A. E. Conway, N.Z.S.C., of New Plymouth, arrived last evening in Hawera, where he was a guest at the Commercial Hotel. He proceeds to-day to the territorial camp at Waverley. A Press Association message from Sydney announces the death of Doctor H. M. Doyle, a member of the Legislative Council, aged 70 years. A member of the shipofwmers’ delegation to the conference in Australia, Mr Leonard Harris (a: director of the Ellerman Bucknoll Line) -sails by the Orfiofd -with Sir Kenneth Anderson from Toulon on- February 9, says a; London (Press cablegram.

It is understood that Mr Robert Kennedy, of the Wellington l firm of Mes'srs Luke and- Kennedy, will be appointed to a judgeship ou the Supremo Court Bench, reports itho Press Association fro-m- Wellington. A confirmatory announcement is expected to-day. Mr J. M. McLean, principal of the telegraph division of the General Post Office, Wellington, has been promoted to be Chief Postmaster at Wanganui in place of Mr H. O. M. Bree, who is retiring on February 16. Air T. Gray was last evening appointed assistant supervisor for the forthcoming New Zealand: Brass Band Contest to open at Wanganui on February 20, states the “Chronicle.'’ Major Conway and Sergt.-Majors Domney, Booth and King were appointed military judges. Miss Wynne Hall, -daughter of Mr and Mrs' A. Hall, .who finished her course of study at the Hatwe-ra High School laist year, hsi® received notice, of 'heir appointment to thief staff of Ithe; Hawera l Maim School. 1 She got her matriculation and' D2 examiuastiotn last year.

The funeral of the late Mr Ben Ogle, of Auroa, which took place on Tuesday, drew ?, wide and representative attendance Q-f settlers, most parts of the district being represented l in the cortege: There Was a brief service at the house and the., rest at the graveside, the officiating minister being the Rev. H. C. Orchard, of Manaia. The bearers were the six 'brothers of the. late Mr Ogle. Mrs Ogle was a paitient in the Kaponga Hospital at the time of her husband’s death.

At a conference of the New Zealand Federation of University Women, officers were elected'as follows (states a Press Assn, message from Christchurch: President, Miss M. Sims; vicepresidents, Dr. Hilda Northeroft and Miss A. F. M. Candy; secretary, Miss A. F. Ironside; treasurer, Mrs !B, C. Penney; chairman of committee of international relations, Miss Gaudy.