Personal.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 242, 17 October 1921, Page 4

Personal.

Sir William Hall-Jones, w r ho has been visiting England,* and Lady HalUoues, who had gone to Australia to meet him on his return journey ,arrived in Welington on Friday. The Very Rev. Dean C. W. Carrington, who is at present on a holiday visit to England, will leave on his return by the Ruahine, sailing on November 10th.

Mr David Cullen, who has been serving his apprenticeship at the Berry Engineering Works, is leaving shortly to join the technical staff of J. J. Niven and Co., Napier. A telegram from Christchurch, states that Air J. D. Mahon is unable to accept the headmastership of the new Auckland Grammar School, on tho grounds of ill-health. The position is being offered to the next acceptable candidate, but his name is withheld.

The death took place in Auckland last week, aged 72, of Mr Alex Thorne, who for very many years was managing and confidential clerk for his brother Mr William Thorne, the well known solicitor. The deceased gentleman was a prominent worker in temperance circles. Mr F. R. Creasy, manager of the Nelson branch of tho Union Bank for the past nine years, having reached the age limit, is shortly retiring. Mr Creasy, who has been 43 years in the service of the bank, has been granted leave on full salary until tho end of July, 1922, when ho retires on full pension. Mr Jas. Coghill, at present manager of the Dannevirko branch, relieves Air Creasy at the end of the month.

Mrs. T. Currie, a weU-known and highly respected resident of Twyford, passed away on Wednesday evening at her residence in Twyford road. A native of Glasgow, upon arrival in New Zealand she settled with her husband ill the Pohangina Valley, where she passed through the hardships and vicissitudes of bush life in the early days of that locality. The deceased lady had been an invalid for some years but by her brightness and strength of character and the Christian fortitude with which she bore her sufferings she won tho admiration and affection of al’, who came in contact with her. She leaves a family of six sons and three daughters to mourn their loss.