PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera Star, Volume L, 29 November 1930, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tho many friends of Mrs J. Jarvis, of Ohangai, will regret to learn that she is an. inmate of a private hospital, and will wish her a speedy reoovery. A Press Association message from Auckland states that the appeal made Delgtosso, the Ponsonbv League player who was recently suspended for three years, was dismissed by the New Zealand League Council last night. The official farewell to Dr. T. H. A. Valintine, Director-General of Health, who is retiring in March, will be held at Wellington on Monday. The Minister of Health, the Hon. A. J. Stallworthy, will be present. On the following day there will be a farewell function arranged by the Hospital Board’s Association, and it is understood that other functions will follow. The successor of Dr. Yalintine is not expected to be announced before February. Dr. Geo. Home, president of the New Plymouth Rotary Club, was the guest of honour as well as the speaker of the day at the weekly luncheon of the Hawera Rotary Club, held yesterday. Dr. Home spoke of bird life, more particularly of New Zealand birds. The speaker, an ardent bird lover, made many original observations in pointing out the characteristics of birds, generally, and conveyed quite a lot of information in regard to New Zealand birds, hut devoted the greater part of the time at his disposal to detailing the annual migration of the godwits from New Zealand to Siberia. Many facts regarding these and other migratory birds were given. The address gave a great deal of pleasure, there being expressed a general desire that Dr. Home would be able to give another address of like kind at some future date. The thanks of the club were conveyed by Rotarian W. J. Bright.