PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 215, 25 August 1927, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr Ben Thoroughgood, aged 5i years, ex-champion Australian sculler died in Newcastle yesterday,

Mr. .Joseph Catherall, after a resi dence of 47 years in Hawke’s Bay, eft Hastings this morning for Wellington, where he intends to entebusiness on his own account at East bourne.

The many rriends Of Mr. E. H. Hatherell, of Willowpark Road, Hastings, will be pleased to learn that he is making good recovery after h>s serious illness.

Mr. M. B. Peat, manager of the Paparoa branch of the National Bank, has arrived in Hastings, where he succeeds Mr. R. A. Barnsdale, who has been promoted to the charge of the Gisborne branch

Major General Corkran, Commandant of the Royal Military College, has been appointed to succeed Lord Ruthven as General Officer Com manding the London District as from February of next year.—(British Official Wireless).

Mr. W. J. Rowe, under transfer from the managership of the Bank of New Zealand, Hastings, to the managership of the B. nk'’s branch at Nelson, accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Rowe, will leave Hastings tomorrow (Friday) for their new place of residence.

The death occurred yesterday morning of Mr W. J. Morpeth, in his 88th year, says a Wellington 'telegram. A former civil servant, he arrived in New Zealand at an early age from Prince Edward Island. He leaves a wife, five sons and three daughters.