PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 29 September 1927, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. W. H. Taylour, of Sydney, managing director of Coal, Oil (N.Z.) Ltd., is staying in Napier, and was a visitor to Hastings to-day.

Miss Nell Cunningham and Miss Rose Wells, of Whakatu. left bv tlie mail train yesterday morning on a holiday visit to Auckland.

Professor Archibald Liversidge, formerly emeritus professor at the Sydney University. is dead, aged 80 years, states a London cable.

Mr Albert Hoy who has been on the staff of the Hokitika branch of the New Zealand Clothing Factory for the past five years, has been transferred to Hastings.

The retirement, fur health reasons, after 34 years’ service in the police force, of Superintendent P. P. Broberg, M.U.0., Wellington, was announced yesterday by the Commissioner of Police.

Lieutenant G. H. Dykes, of the Lancashire Fusiliers, arrived from India by the Maheno on Tuesdav. He will spend two years in New Zealand, attached to one of the New Zealand regiments.

The many friends of Mr. W. H. Complin, clerk of the Havelock North Town Board, will rerf-et to learn that he is an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital, a telegram to this effect having been received this morning.

The appointment of Mr. H. E. Davis as London manager of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board was made by the board at its meeting yesterday. He succeeds Mr. J. B. Wright, who recently resigned, and will leave the Dominion in November to take up his new duties in London.

Major L. Potter, a member of the New Zealand Staff Corps, who has been in India for the last two years on exchange, returned to Auckland on Tuesday by the Maheno. Major Potter has been stationed with the Highland Light Infantry at Bangalore. and with the Rifle Brigade near the Khyber Pass.

A cable from Canberra states that in the House of Representatives, while members worn expressing their regret at the death of Mr. W. A. Gale, late Clerk of the House, Mr. J. R. McGregor, his successor, collapsed and died a few hours later. He was 53 years of age.

The New Zealand dairy expert, Mr A. C. Ross, has married Mrs MorrisHolaek, of St. Heliers Bay, Auckland, states a London cable.

Mr Ben Turner, President of the Textile Workers, was elected chairman of the Trade Union General Council and President of the Congress for 1928, states a London cable.

Miss Gladys Ferguson and Miss Ethel Cooper, of Southampton, were arrivals in Auckland on Tuesday by the Maheno from Sydney. They have been investigating the British groupset.tlement scheme in Western Australia. After a short stay in 'the North Island they propose joining tbe Makura at Wellington for San Francisco, en route to England.

Among the guests at the Masonic Hotel Napier ,are:—Mrs J. Ross, Miss M. McLeish Miss A. McLeish (Sydney), Mis s B. M, Harris, Misi H. Otley (Christchurch), Messrs J. P. Brown (Wanganui). R. T. Leydon (Auckland). G. L. Stratmore, W. McGregor, C. M. Ekherg. A. H. Gray. J. Curley (Wellington), j P. Kirk, H. B Bock M. Bulls, J. Ellis (Gisborne). S. A. Chaffey (Rangiora), N. N. Bavasour (Blenheim), ,A. Teverson (Sydney), K. Taguchi (Sydney).

News has been received here of the death yesterday afternoon at her old home, of Mrs E, H. Brewer widow of the late Mr Wm. Brewer, of “Waihau,” Waverley. one of the earliest settlers of that district. The deceased lady had been in failing health for some time, and th® end was there fore not unexpected. She was a daughter of tbe late Major D. 8. Dorie, for many years Resident Magistrate in Wanganui, and was also an elder sister of Mrs Alfred Reid, of Hastings. Among the surviving members of her family are Mrs Alfred Symes, also of Hastings, and Mr Walter (“Sam”) Brewer, at one time a resident of and still well known in Hawke’s Bay. To them will be extended a large measure of sympathy in the loss they have sustained,

Mr. John Low King, at one time engineer to the Gisborne Harbour Board, died in Auckland on Monday at the age of 85 years. Mr. King was born in Perthshire in 1842 and arrived in New Zealand in the ship Chrysolite in 1861. In 1897 he was appointed engineer to the Gisborne Harbour Board, but after some years’ service resigned, and since then has led a retired life in Gisborne, though he made frequent visits to Auckland. He is survived by a widow and the following fumilv comprising Mrs Reichenbach and Mrs Stark of Gisborne. Mrs A. D Nicholls Masterton, Miss D. King Napier, and Messrs R. N. King. Te Karaka. .T. H. King. Opotiki. and G. W. King, Auckland. Another son, Mr. Thos. King, died a few months ago while on a holiday visit to Gishome.