PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera Star, Volume L, 16 January 1931, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

,Sir Walter and Lady Carncross, who have been spending a short holiday at Pukcaruhc, returned to Eltham on Wednesday. Mr aud Mrs G. H. Buckcridge returned to Hawera last evening after a visit to Hastings, where their son is progressing splendidly after his recent operation.

Dr. D. Miller, Entomologist from the Cawthron Institute, is in South Taranaki and is inspecting the areas where the eimabar moth was liberated last year. He was in Stratford yesterday.

Mr. R. J.‘ McGill has been, awarded the senior scholarship in. medicine, and Mr. N. L. Edson the medical travelling scholarship by the New Zealand University Senate. Both are students ol Otago University. • Major and Mrs Perry, managers of the Salvation Army Boy’s Home at, Eltham, have started on a motor trip to Rotorua and district and will return via the Ohura route.

•Mr and Mrs Wallace Major, of Eltham, left yesterday morning for the Rangitikei and Hawke’s Bay district on holiday'.

Ensign and Mrs Barker, officers-in-ciiarge of the Eltham Salvation Army' Corps, accompanied by Mr E. Lynch, left yesterday morning for a holiday in the north. A vote of condolence with the relatives of the late Mr T. ‘Geary, Meremore, an old member of the Hawera Rifle ;Club and the Taranaki Rifle Association, was passed fit a meeting of the association last night.

A Taranaki pioneer settler, Mrs A. Bro-wu, who came to New Zealand over 5U y'ears ago and had resided in the Inglewood district for many years, passed away at her home in Auckland this week. Mr W. A. Brown, of Westown, aud formerly of Auroa, is one of her so ns.

The death of Captain W. O. Bacon, chairman of the Manchester Ship Canal Company, occurred in England on Tuesday, according to advice received b yOaptain W. J. Wade, Australian and New Zealand l representative of the company, who is visiting Auckland. Captain Bacon had been chairman of the company for the past 18 years. “He had a very romantic lire,” said Captain Wade, “rising from a .plain seafaring man to the chairmanship of a company with a capital of over £20,000,000. Dr J. B. Condliffe, who has accepted a seven y'ears’ contract to write the annual survey' ol economic affairs for the Economic and Financial (Section of the League of Ntaions, is an Australian by birth ,and was educated in Christchurch. He was professor of Economics at Canterbury University for several years. During the Great War he served as a sergeant in the Ist Canterbury Regiment, and later gained an N.Z.E.F. Scholarship, going to Cambridge University, where he became Gresham Research Student at Caius College. He is the fourth New Zealander appointed to the League of Nations Staff. Tne others are Mr J. V. Wilson, Christchurch, Mr J. H. Chapman, Wellington, and Mr E. Harston, Napier.