Personal.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 63, 2 March 1921, Page 4

Personal.

The Prime Minister has returned to Wellington from Auckland. Mrs H. L. Donnelly of Hastings, is at present in Auckland, visiting fnends and will be absent about a month. Mrs and Miss Kessell left Hastings this morning for Christchurch* on an extended holiday. Mr M. H. Cohen, of the staff of the Hastings Ga-s Works, left this morning, for a two-months’ holiday in Sydney. The Minister of Education (Hon. C. J. Parr) has returned to Wellington from an official visit to the South Island. Miss Massey, daughter of the Hon. W. F. Massey, is at present on a visit to Napier, and is the guest of Mrs. Thomas Gilray. Mrs. John Hopkins left London by the Orontes on Saturday to join her husband in New Zealand. Mr. Hopkins is well known in theatrical circles. Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., has left Auckland for Wellington to preside at a sitting of the Post and Telegraph Appeal Board. He will probably he away a month. Mr E. G. Daniel, postmaster at Hastings, left this morning for the South Island, on his annual leave. Mr Levy, of Napier, will act as postmaster during his absence. Riflemen D. McLeod and G. Tong, of the Okawa Rifle Club, left Hastings this morning for Trentham to take part in the Rifle Meeting, opening there to-morrow. Mrs G. A. Luttrell went under a serious operation yesterday at Dr Moore’s private hospital, Napier. Her many friends will be pleased to hear that she is progressing favourably. Mr. Robert W. Carpenter, of Waipukurau, has been appointed editor* manager of the “Waipukurau Press,” in place of Mr. Frank Eyre, who has .resigned the position. The following members of the Waipukurau Rifle Club have left for Trentham:. Messrs. D. Rickey, H. Butler, F. Stephens, G. Bryce, G. Robinson, T. Sullivan, R. McLean and A. Hansen. Mr. J. 11. Gunson, who has held a lengthy term as Mayor of Auckland, and who had decided to retire, has consented to stand again, at the earnest request of leading citizens. Although the condition of Mr. William Pryor, secretary of the Employers’ Federation, shows considerable improvement, it will bo some time before he is able to resume his duties. I Miss J. Cameron, Hastings, returned to New Zealand on Sunday, via Australia, from a visit to England and Egypt. With x her mother, Mrs. F. Cameron, she is on a brief visit to relatives in Mastertori. Mr. John Mason, solicitor, Napier, has taken into partnership Mr. E. H. T. Dunn, formerly of the Stamp Department, but who has been in practice as a solicitor since his return from active service. Mr- P. H. Jones has been appointed manager of the “Wairoa Guardian.” Mr. Jones was on the “Wyndham Herald” staff for some years, and thereafter filled important positions on the staff of the “Southland Times.” The Minister of Agriculture (Hon. W. Nosworthy) has returned to Wellington after a visit to the North Auckland district, where he made some investigation of the fire blight menace 1 and the cattle tick problem. Rev. H. E. Edridge, who has held' the position of pastor of the Hastings Baptist Church, lor over six and a-half I years, has accepted a call from the i Central Auxiliary of the Baptist Union to take over the superintenaency of the Lyall and Island Bay causes, Wellington. Mr. Edridge takes up this new work at the beginning of June next. Messrs S. B. Dodge, Borough Engineer, and H. J. M. Rogers, Electrical Engineers, who have been attending the conference of engineers 'at Christchurch, arrived back in Hastings last night. The Rev. Wyndham S. Heathcote, M.A., (Uxon), who resigned the Unithrian pulpit at Adelaide in January last in order to proceed to the United States, has consented to fill the vacancy in the Wellington Unitarian Church for the next three months, pending the arrival of the Rev. James Shaw Brown. The Rev. James Broadbolt, superintendent of the King’s Hail Methodist Mission, London, is due to arrive in Sydney on March 5 by the Japanese steamer Aki Maru, With his wife and young daughter he is on a*world’s tour, and will remain in Australia one month before going on to New Zealand. Before her departure from Napier yesterday, Nurse Doreen, who has acted as Plunket Nurse in Napier for over six years, was met by several grateful patients and presented with a handsome Doulton vase and gold brooch, accompanied by letters expressing their appreciation of Nurse Doreen’s care and skill and their deep regret at her departure. 1 lie New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., has received advice from London that the board has appointed Mr. D. M. Morgan (an inspector of the company) to be the Chief Inspector for New Zealand. Mr. Morgan has been in the service of the company lor many years and is regarded as one of its most experiencea and capable officers. Mr J. G. McLean, who has severed his connection with the Wanganui “Chronicle” mechanical staff to take up his residence in Hastings, was farewelled by the staff and employers of that journal last week. Mr J. Ball, the editor, in expressing the regret of the staff at Mr McLean’s departure, presented him with a handsome pocket wallet as an indication of the esteem in which he was held. Cabinet has decided to appoint Mr John William MacDonald, at present Assistant Public Trustee, to the position of Public Trustee rendered vacant by the death of Mr. R. T- Triggs. Mr. MacDonald is a New Zealander. He was born at Christchurch in 1883. In 1900 ho joined the Justice Department, qualified for the legal profession and joined the Public Trust Office as a clerk in the ’egal department. He rose to solicitor, and in 1917 was appointed Assistant Public Trustee. The Rev. E. Palgrave Davy, of New Zealand, who has recently been carrying on his work on the original lines for which he is noted amongst children on the ocean beaches around Sydney, was entertained by the Young People’s Scripture Union at“Tnble House, sajs the “Sydney Morning Herald,” prior to returning to his home. The success of his endeavours has so impressed the members of the union that it has been decided to secure a minister temperamentally adapted for the work, and permanently appoint him to continue on the sa‘me lines, working in school halls in winter and on the beaches in the summer. Frederick Jackson, Gray’s road, Hastings, has won a price of £5 awarded by the Hon. A. M. Myers to each Auckland Grammar School boy who obtains | the highest marks in the respective subjects of the Junior University Examination. This brilliant youth, who secured the Eric Astley Memorial Prize at the Grammar School in December last for being first in mathematics and science, came first in mathematics in New Zealand at the University Junior Scholarship examination. His former school — the Hastings D.H.S.—is very proud of its old boy. He leaves for Canterbury College to-day to take up a degree course in engineering.