PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera Star, Volume L, 31 July 1930, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The deatli is reported from Wellington of Rev. I\ E. Harry, pastor of Vivian Street Baptist Church, and a prominent preacher and social worker. King George is having his first holiday afloat for two years aboard the yacht. Victoria Albert, says a London cable. With Queen Mary, lie lias gone for a week’s cruise a.t Cowes. Mr J. ’MeQueem, who has been manager for the pa'at! .13 years oif ‘t'h'e Dunedin branteh of the Union Bank of

Australia, .has retired, and intends .taking up hiis' residence tin. Australia, from whence hoi came.

Mir W. A. ’Spragg, of Hai.wcMa, president of .the New Zealand! Automobile Cycle Union, returned home yesterday ait't'er a visit ita Australia where, togot her with it!he New Zealand '.secretary, Mi A. Way, of ,Marten, he. attended •a •conference a!t. Metllb onir.net of it,he New Zealand' and. Australian Undoms.

Mu. J. W. Harding, M.Se., demonstrator in physi.es at Victoria University College, has been awarded a research studentship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, sayis a Wellington message. The studentship is open to graduates of the British Empire. Mr Harding will go into residence at Cambridge in October, and will pursue his studies in the Cavendish Labor atony under Sir Ernest Blither ford.

An expression of sympathy with Mr. A. J. Haseltine, of Hawera, in his present illness, together with hopes for his early recovery, was recorded by the Tokaora branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union at its meeting this week. Mr. Haseltine is a patient at the Hawera. Hospital and is reported to be making favourable progress.

The death has occurred a.t Auckland of Mr George Hutchison, aged 84, lawyer and politician. He won the Waitptara seat in 1887, held it until 1894, and then was returned for Patea, which seat he held until 1901. He was attached to the staff of Lord Boberts as legal adviser in the Boer War. Mr Vincent IT. Freeth, director of Catts-Patterson Company (N.Z.) Ltd., arrived in Hawera to-day in connection with the Hudson Great 8 economy test. He will leave later for New < Plymouth.