PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 13, 29 December 1930, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr And Mrs J. Kelsey, Hastings, are spending the holidays in Wellington. The Rev. D. J. A. Shaw, Hastings, is the guest of Mrs R. R. Burling, Essex street, Masterton. The late Sir George Clifford, of Canterbury, left au English estate valued at £39,015, says a London cable. Miss Wake has withdrawn from the ladies’ singles at the tourney at Christchurch owing to a touch of sunstroke received on Saturday— Rnss Association. Messrs Everett and Findlay were passengers by the Dominion Airlines’ Ltd. monoplane from Gisborne this morning, arriving in Hastings at 8 o’clock, after an hour’s flight. Miss Helen Blair, daughter of Mr. Justice Blair and Airs Blair, who has been studying art in France and Paris, returned home by the Rangitiki. Miss Florence Duff, of Baitings, who has been attending Victoria University College, has passed in four subjects of her second section of the B.A. degree. Air and Mrs G. M. Richmond, who are prominent station owners in Queensland, arrived in Wellington by the Makura yesterday morning. They are accompanied by the Alisses and blaster Richmond, and will visit Hawke’s Bay. Tfie death occurred at Auckland last week of Air. John James Stanawav, aged 58. He was a well-known footballer for many years and sprinter and hurdler of the Dominion between 1880 and 1890. He accompanied the three All Black teams on Australian tours. After an absence of nearly two years and a half from New Zealand, Miss Gladys Watkins, of Wellington, who has graduated at the famous Carillon School of Malines, and who is under a tentative arrangement to play the new Wellington carillon, returned from England, via Australia, by the Makura yesterday morning. Air and Mrs H. Benzies, who returned to New Zealand by the Rangitiki last Tuesday after a visit to England and Scotland, have been spending the Christmas holidays with their daughter, Mrs N. J. Adamson, Ellison road They left Hastings this morning on their return to their home in Nelson. There are many New Zealand friends who wifi sympathise with Lady Rutherford who is now visiting her mother, Mrs Newton, of Christchurch, aud with her husband, Sir Ernest Rutherford, in the loss of their only child, Mrs Eileen Fowler, whose death occurred suddenly on Christmas Eve at her home in Cambridge England. Airs Fowler, who was born in Canada, was married in 1921 to Mr. R. H. Fowler, M.A., 0.8. E., F.R.S. She leaves a family of four children. Her husband is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and lecturer in mathematics, Since 1928, he has been Stokes Lecturer in the University of Cambridge. A pleasant little function was held at the offices of Messrs Duff and Averill, solicitors, Hastings, on Tuesday afternoon last, when Air. Duff, on behalf of the firm, presented Miss Nancy Batchelor, senior shorthand typist, with a cheque on her leaving to get married. In the course of his remarks. Mr. Duff pointed out that Miss Batchelor had come as a junior from Gilby’s College six years ago, and had thus received the whole of her training in the one firm and was very efficient at her work. He wished her much happiness iu her married life. Miss Batchelor, in acknowledgment, said that although she had had to work hard at times, she had been very happy in her work, and expressed thanks for the gift and nice things said about her.