PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera Star, Volume L, 10 February 1931, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The King has conferred an earldom oil Viscount Willingdon, the new Viceroy of India, states a London cable. The death occurred on Saturday evening at beef ton of iMr W. F. Brett, Inangaiiua County' engineer, aged 2i*. Deceased was regarded as the finest underground mining surveyor in ttie Dominion. —Press Assn.

Captain \Y. D. Cameron, of the Waliine, and Mr. and Miss Campbell are spending a holiday in Hawera and are the guests of Mrs. J. C. Robb, Camberwell Road. Dr. E. Marsdeu, Director of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, returned to Wellington by the Makura yesterday, having attended sub-conferences of the Imperial Conference in London to study marketing methods and the standardisation of New Zealand products.

Mrs M. McLeod, one of the victims of the disaster in Napier, was a. daughter of Mrs G. Castle, of Hawera-. Mrs McLeod leaves a husband and family of seven children-

The death has occurred at Cambridge of Mother M. St. Dominie (Katherine Fleming), aged 75 years. She was bom in Ireland in 1856, and came to- New Zealand when quite young. In 18S1 she entered the Institute Notre Dame des Missions at Napier, and for very many years worked at Nelson. Following her departure she was in charge of convents at . Panmure, Lower Hutt, Pukekohe, Stratford and Inglewood. Sister Mary Ignatius, of Grcenmeado.ws, who was killed in the Hawke’s Bay earthquake, was her sister.