PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 72, 9 March 1931, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr. Geo. A. Maddison left Hastings by the train this morning for Wellington. Writing to a Hastings resident a Gisborne friend says: “It does one good to note how splendidly you folk are facing your difficulties.”

A London cable announces the death of the Rev. G. Vale Owen, who was the first episcopalian clergyman to adopt spiritualism.

Dr. M. H. W’att, deputy Director of Health, succeeds Dr. T. H. A. Valentine as Director-General of Health.

The “Sunday Express” says that Mr. W. E. Allen, M.P., is resign! ig from the Conservative party to join Sir Oswald Mosley's new party.

Sister Godfray, of Havelock North, was a train passenger this morning for Wellington where she joins the Ulimaroa on Friday for Sydney en route to England via South Africa. Mr. L. H. Briggs, of Hastings and late of Auckland University and Massey Agricultural College, has now settled down to work at Dyson Perrin’s Laboratories, Southampton road, Oxford (England), where he will work for the Oxford Ph.D. degree, states a London paper.

The death took place yesterday morning of Mr. Hugh Thomas Gilhooly, son of Mr. Patrick Gilholly, of Park road, Hastings. Since the war, the deceased has been subject to cerebral fits and yesterday it appears he left his bedroom at the Excelsior boarding house, King street, to go to an outhouse where he was found dead about 10.30 o’clock, having had a fatal seizure. The late Mr. Gilb.ooly, who was only 38 years of ago and single, was well liked by all who made his acquaintance and his many friends will feel profound sympathy with his relatives.