PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 303, 9 December 1929, Page 4

PERSONAL

Sir James Parr and family are sailing for New Zealand on January 3, says a London cable.

Miss J. H. Lloyd left Hastings this morning for Wellington, where she will spend a few days before starting her Plunket training in Dunedin.

Mr. H. B. Lusk, of Napier, will be incapacitated for a few weeks, having slipped and fractured his heel on Saturday night.

The new High Commissioner fof New Zealand, the Hon. T. M. Wilford. K.C., accompanied by Mrs Wilford, sailed on Saturday afternoon for London by the Rangitiki.

Votes of thanks were to-day accorded by the Hawke’s Bay County Council to Messrs H. M. Campbell and W. E. Barnard, M.P.’s, for the prompt and expeditious manner in which they had attended to the various matters placed before them.

At the meeting of the Waipawa County Council held this morning, the chairman (Cr. L. Glenny) referred in feeling terms to the death of Mr. L. Pratley, stating that as a reporter Mr. Pratley had always given very fair reports of the council meetings. The council passed a vote of condolence to the relatives in silence.

On Friday afternoon the staff of the Tourist Motor Co., Ltd., Hastings, assembled to bid farewell te Mr. M. Baker, who has taken a position in Wellington at Genera) Motors. In a felicitous speech, Mr. Jack Blake wished Mr. Baker every success in his new sphere, and presented him with a gold wristlet watch and a shaving outfit. Mr, Baker suitably replied.

Mr. P. E. Shinnick, storeman on the Hastings railway staff, was taken suddenly ill with an attack of yipendicitis yesterday, and was taken to the Napier Hospital, where an operation wag performed. On inquiry at the hospital to-day, it was ascertained that he was progressing satisfactorily.

A naval funeral was accorded the late Mr. George Sherman Reade in Auckland, who gave land and money to the value of over £1.000.000 for a naval training school in England. Officers and a detachment of 24 men from the warships of tho New Zealand station attended, eight bluejackets, acting as pall-bearers. Wreaths were sent from the Lords Commissioner of the Admiralty, commanders, officers and men of the ships of the New Zealand station, and from the superintendent, officers and boys of tho Royal Naval School at Greensicli.