Personal

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 203, 11 August 1927, Page 4

Personal

Miss B. Chambers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Chambers, of Waipukurau, is serious ill in Wanganui.

Mrs. R. O. Bousefield, of Waipukurau, was called urgently to Gisborne on Tuesday owing to the serious illness of her mother.

Messrs. J. B. Andrew and A. G. McCarthy have resigned their positions as members of the Napier Fire Board.

Mr. T. C. Brash, president of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation, who has been on a flying visit to Hastings on official business, left this morning for Wellington.

The death is reported from Rotorua of Mr. John Stewart Geddis, aged 54, a master printer, brother of the late lion. W. J. Geddis, after a brief illness.

The Hon. R. F. Bollard, Minister of Internal Affairs, has been appointed patron of the Otaki Maori Racing Club. The ietiring patron is the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates.

Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lloyd and Miss Lloyd are at present in Waipukurau, renewing their acquaintance with old friends. They are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Noedl, of Russell Street.

Dr. E. Kidson, M.A., D.Sc., F.1.P., 0.8. E., the newly-appointed Director of the New Zealand Government Meteorological Office, arrived at Wellington from Melbourne by the Manuka yesterday afternoon.

A London cable reports that Mr. J. H. Jarram,.,of N.Z. State Insurance Department, Wellington, has arrived in London from America. He is investigating workers’ compensation for accident insurance.

Mr. Robert G. Townsend, motorman on the s.s. Hauraki, who has been on a visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. Townsend, of Hastings, left this morning for Auckland, where he rejoins his ship.

The resignation of Sister Jackson was received with regret at the meeting the Waipawa Hospital Board yesterday, and the secretary was instructed to forward a letter of anp nation for her past services.

Sympathetic references to the deaths of Messrs. W. G. Fuller, H. Sinclair-Johnson, and D. Walker, late members of the Napier Bowling Club, were made at the club’s annual meeting last night.

The Hon. A. D. McLeod, Minister of Lands, who is in a private hospital in Wellington for the observation and treatment of eye trouble, is making good progress and should be able to resume his duties in ten days or a fortnight.

Mr. W. Saunders, of the staff of Mears. R. Scott and Co., Waipukurau, has received a cable from England, announcing the death of his mother. The deceased lady had reached the age of 73 years. Mr Saunders had the opportunity of seeing his mother at the end of the war, in 1918.