Personal Items

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 8 March 1935, Page 6

Personal Items

Mr H. J. Pavey, of West Australia, is a visitor to Manaia and is the guest of Mr and Mrs Thomas Butler. Mrs Butler is a daughter of Mr Pavey. Dr. F. B. A. Valentine, who has been visiting England and the Continent, returned to Eltham on Wednesday. Dr. Valentine is at present ship’s surgeon on a liner trading between England ,Australia and New Zealand. He will leave for England again next week. The death has occurred of Mr Oliver V 7 endell Holmes, former associate justice of the Supreme Court, states a cable from Washington. On Friday he would have been 94. He was lieu-tenant-colonel in the civil war, and one of America’s most famous jurists of recent generations. After a period of eight years resident in Hawera as first teller of the Hawera Branch of the Bank of New Zealand, Mr. A. F. Beck has been transferred to Thames on promotion, and with Mrs. Beck and family, he leaves on March 14 to take up his new duties. “ Mr, Beck is returning to his home town after an absence of 13 years for it was at Thames that he received his secondary education, during the period when his father, the Rev. A. J. Beck, was vicar of the Thames parish, and ho subsequently entered the bank’s service. During the years that he has spent in Hawera Mr. Beck Jms taken q lively interest in the affairs of the Hawera Lawn Tennis Club and as a player lie has represented South Taranaki on a number of occasions. He is also a badminton enthusiast. Mrs. Beck lias taken a prominent part for a number of years in the work of the Hawera Plunket Society, of which she is the present secretary.