Personal.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 118, 29 April 1924, Page 4

Personal.

Messrs A. M. Wighton and A. F. Redgrave have been elected members of the Hastings Chamber of Commerce. General Bramwell Booth arrived in Auckland from Sydney yesterday, and will rest for a few days before arranging a tour of the Dominion. Mr. Ernest W. Cave has been promoted to the position of Official Assignee, registrar of the Supreme Court and sheriff for Otago. Miss M. Hanron. of the massage department of King George V. Hospital, Rotorua, has resigned her position and left for Sydney. Mr J. P. Sheehan, who, has been spending a holiday in the South, returned home by car to Wairoa this morning. , Miss L. Smith, of Sydney, left by car this morning on the round tour of Taupo, Rotorua, Whakatane. and Gisborne. Mrs E. Rackley, has been on a visit to Hastings, returned to her home in Picton by the mail train this morning. Mr. H. A, Williams has been appointed to th© vacancy on the Hastings , Chamber of Commerce executive by the resignation of Mr. T. Clark Son. Cr. F. Rice, who took his seat on the Napier Borough Council fojr the first time last evening was accorded a hearty welcome by the Mayor (Mr J. B. Andrew) and councillors.

i Mr. G. E. Mannering, manager of the Christchurch branch of the Union I Bank, of Australia, Ltd., is retiring on pension after forty-six years’ service i with that institution. He will be succeeded in the management by Mr. A. |I. Glasgow at present manager of the bank’s Napier branch.

The following visitors to Napier are staying at the Masonic Hotel:—Miami Airs L. Speakman (London). Miami Mrs D. M. Fortune and - Miss M. Hill (Feilding), Mr L. Miller (Sydney), Misses W. Dean, E. Trounson. R. W. Haise and R. Instone (Wellington), Miami Mrs P. W. Darrington (Dannevirke' and Mr A. Barker (Wairoa).

In his annual report to the householders at the Hastings Central School last evening, the chairman (Mr R. Henderson) said that the most regrettable change in the staff was the loss of M l ' L. F. Pegler, to whose personality and organising ability the school owed its many successes. Whilst regretting his departure, the chairman appreciated his promotion and wished him every success.

A very happy social evening took place in the Pas-a-Dena Tea Rooms. Hastings, last evening, the occasion being a presentation tp Miss Vera Stairmand, the retiring captain and secretary of the Hastings Ladies Hockey Club. Miss Ivy Lean said that all the players were sorry to lose Miss Sttfirmand’s services, and hoped that she would still continue to take an interest in the game. She thanked Mi&s Stairmand on behalf of the members, for her splendid services both to active hockey and the social functions, saying that it was mainly owing to her efforts that the various teams had always been on such good terms. She asked Miss Stairmand to accept, from the members and exmembers of the Club, a handsome travelling rug as a small token of their appreciation. In reply Miss Stairmand thanked them all for the valuable gift. Anything she had done on behalf of the Club had always given her very much pleasure, and although she had retired from the active game she fully intended to take a great deal of interest in it. She also referred to the assistance she had always had from the players and she hoped that the same-hearty co-operation would be extended to her successor, Miss Dawson.