PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 180, 14 July 1928, Page 4

PERSONAL

Sir George Clifford has been reelected president of the New Zealand Racing Conference.

Mr H. A. Russell, of Hawke's Bay, has been elected u member of the executive of the New Zealand Racing Conference.

Mr W. Taylor has been appointed traffic inspector for the Waipawa Borough Council. There were four applicants.

A New York cable states that Mr Alexander Peacock, aged Go years, of Dumferline, a protege of Carnegie, has died worth 20,000,000 dollars.

Dr, H. B. Turbott will be the officer in charge of the new health district of Bay of Plenty, Poverty Bay and the East Coast, with headquarters at Gisborne.

Mr V. E. Thompson; 8.C0m., has resigned his position on the staff of the Hastings High School after more than five years’ service. He intends to return to the accountancy profession.

Dr. F. L. McDowall, having extensively investigated dairy research in the United Kingdom and on the Continent, has sailed from London on a similar mission to the United States and Canada prior to becoming research chemist at the Massey Agricultural College, Palmerston North.

Bandsmen throughout New Zealand will regret to learn of the unexpected death of Mr Bud Wills, which took place in Dunedin on Wednesday. “Buddy ”as he was familiarly known to Nile brass band fraternity, was one of New Zealand’s most artistic cornet soloists, and recently played the lead for Woolston Band m several contests.

A veteran >of the war in South Africa, Captain A. W. Morgan, died at Christchurch on Monday, aged 52 years. He was a son of the late Mr Edward James Morgan, Gillingham, Dorsethshire, and Mrs Emily Morgan, now of New Plymouth, and was born at Manutahi in 1875, and resided for some years at Kaimata. As a trooper in the Hawera Mounted Rifles, he was one of those selected by General Davies to go to England in 1897 to attend Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee celebrations.

Another of the early settlers In Auckland, Miss Isabel Close, died this week at Herne Bay. She was born at Richmond, Yorksire, 77 years and arrived with her parents at Auckland by the ship Persic >n August, 1860, after a vovage that lasted ,112 days. Had Miss Close lived till next month she would have been in the Dominion 68 years. Many old residents will remember her bro-

thers, the late Mr John Close, of Neal nnd Close. Napier, and the late Mr James and Mr Nathan Close, of th« firm of Close Brothers, of Auckland.