Personal.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume xiv, Issue 60, 19 February 1924, Page 4

Personal.

Dr. E. H. Williams, of Dunedin, is visiting Napier. Air. Kissell, of the Government Electrical Department, is visiting Napier in connection with Power Board matters. Th© death is reported of Air. Lionel Alonckton, composer and musical critic, not Air. Monckton, a New Zealanderand ex-New Guinea magistrate, as reported yesterday, A Paris cablegram states that Aliss Edith AlcAdhan, 18 years old, a New Zealander, is exhibiting two pieces of sculpture at the Salon des Independants. Air. A. F. Bates. AI.A., headmaster at th® Alarton District High School, has been appointed headmaster at the Hawera Scliool in succession to Air. Strack. The Rev. George Allen Bell, chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury. has been appointed Dean of Canterbury (says a London cable). This is Air. Ramsay MacDonald’s first Church appointment. Although Air. A. J. Kirkham has been able to leave the hospital, he has nott, recovered from the effects of the recent fracture 'of his leg to be able to walk about, so that he will be confined to his residence for some time yet. The remains of th© unfortunate lad Donald AlcKenzie. who was drowned at Tunanui on Saturday last, were laid to rest yesterday, the funeral leaving •th© residence of Mrs Anderson, Charles street, Hastings, at 2 p.m. for the Hastings Cemetery. Dr. W. Fulton, medical officer at Pukeora. Sanatorium, AVaipukurau. has resigned and is proceeding to AVaihi. During his period at th© sanatorium Dr. Fulton has earned the kindest of feelings from the patients there, and his departure is greatly regretted. Air. F. AV. Furkert, Under-Secretary of Public Works, who recently underwent an operation for appendicitis at Gisborne, left for the south to attend the annual conference of the New Zealand Institute of Civil Engineers. After the conference Mr. Furkert may spend a brief holiday in the Cold Lakes district. Alessrs Lowry, engineering instructor. and Greenhill, woodwork instructor, have resigned from the staff of the Napier Technical College. The Board of Governors has appointed Air. F. N. Good. 8.A.. 8.E., and Mr. H. Wood, both of Napier, to the respective vacancies. There were 60 applicants for the posiaion of woodwork instructor. Th®, Rev. H. Van Staveren, who recently celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday, and the forty-seventh year of his ministry in New Zealand/ has received many congratulations and good wishes from his numerous friends in Wellington. Air. Van Staveren was born on January 26th at Bolsward, Friesland, but as a child, was taken to London, where he was 'educated. Ho was married in 1875 in London. He was appointed to Wellington by the then Chief Rabbi, the eminent Dr. Nathan Alder. H© came out in the ship AVaikato by way of Lyttelton, tfhere he arrived in July, 1877.