PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 14 February 1930, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The death is reported from Lon,don of Lady Harris, wife of the cricketer. Mr E. R.. Wilson, of Invercargill, has been re-elected president of the New Zealand Institute of Architects .and Mr W. M. Page (Wellington) chairman of the executive committee 1 , reports the Press Association from Wellington. The King has approved tb© appointment of Sir William Peel, chief secretary to the Government of the Federated Malay States, to be Governor and Com m ander-in-Oh ief of Hong Kong in succession to Sir Cecil say® a British Official Wireless message.

The chairmans of the Waimate West County Council (Or. E. Long) and Or. F. Gamlin were re-appointed, yesterday to represent the council on the Egmont National Park Board. Or. Long whs also appointed as the council delegate to the next meeting of the Taranaki Local Bodies’ Association.

A vote of sympathy with Mr A. J. Gla&son of Hawera, formerly of the Department of Agriculture, in the bereavement suffered recently through, the death, of his wife, was recorded by the commitee of the AVaimate AVest Demonstration Farm at its monthly meeting yesterday. Colonel C. Guy Powles, C.M.G., D. 5.0., of Palmerston North, has been appointed principal of Flock House Station. Colonel Powles will take up residence at Flock House early next month. He had a distinguished career as a soldier in the South African and Great Wars, and he is well known in Hawera.

Mr J. Cooker, of Raiwhitiroa. who went to AVellington on Monday to attend a meeting of delegates from Farmers’ Union executives, convened to discuss the question of valuation of land, was elected 1 ' chairman of the. meeting. He reports that-many interesting and important (phases of the question were discussed and that a full report would be submitted next month.

Mr Stuart P. Cameron, who has been the secretary of the Otago Provincial Executive of the N.Z. Farmers' Union for the past eight years, is giving up his work with that organisation to take up the position of general manager of the new Dominion Fertiliser Company. Mr Cameron is known to the South Taranaki farmers who went to the South Island last year, and with whom he was very popular. Tli© King has approved of the appointment of the Earl of Clarendon as Governor-General! of the Union of South Africa in succession to Major-General the Earl of Athlone. whose extended period of office will expire next January.

Dr. Kelly, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, yesterday celebrated his 80th birthday. The occasion was a notable one at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Dr. Kellv being the celebrant of .pontifical high mass. There was a distinguished gathering, the Government and the civic commissioners being represented. ’ The apostolic delegate, Archbishop Cattaneo, was present. The attendance, included a, number of bishops and 150 priests. 1