PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 303, 7 December 1931, Page 6

PERSONAL

Her Majesty the Queen, who is staying at Sandringham, is suffering from a slight cold, and is remaining in het room. It is expected that she will be about again in a few days. The Prince of Wales has made a good recovery from his recent chill. He was able to go out for the first time on Friday Snnningdale, where he spent the week-end. The Hon. Winston Churchill has sailed for America, states a London cable. Miss Kiore King, producer for the Canterbury Repertory Theatre Society, arrived in Hastings on Saturday and will spend the Christmas holidays with her father, Mr G. R. King. The death occurred at Wellington yesterday of Lady Johnston, widow of the late Sir Charles Johnston, in her 82nd. year. A London cable reports the death of Mr. Alfred Turner, A.8.A., R. 8.8., the sculptor. One of his best known works is the South Afriean War Memorial at Dclville Wood. Herbert Stevens, who was injured in ap accident in Hastings on Friday, and who is now a patient at the Memorial Hospital, is reported to be making good progress, and it is considered that he is now out of danger. Mr H. Bockett, manager of the Pukekohe branch of the Bank of NewZealand for tho past 21 years, is retiring at the end of the year, and Mr L. R. Jordan, manager of the Manaia branch, has been appointed to succeed him. Sir Micheal Myers (Chief Justice), chairman, and Messrs L. O. H. Tripp and H. D. Vickery, members of tho Hawke’s Bay Adjustment Court, left Wellington to-day to attend a sitting of the court at Napier to-morrow. The oldest Irish woman, the Hon, Kathleen Plunket, celebrated her 111th birthday recently. She dined on tunkey and plum pudding, and was delignted to receive a telegram of congratulation from Their Majesties. Nursed when a baby by Sir Walter Scott, she has lived through five reigns and enjoys excellent health. Mr T. S. Ronaldsqn, .ex-assistant Public Trustee, who died at Wellington last week, was the “father” of football in the Wairarapa, founding the first club and coaching the Greytown footballers to a standard of efficiency that kept them at the head of tho game in the Wairarapa for a number of years. He was a fine player himself and also a good cricketer. The Canadian Prime Minister, Mr Bennett, ended his visit to Britain on Friday and returned to Canada by the Duchess of Richmond. Although his visit was primarily a health tour, it is understood he had conversations with Mr Thomas and other Ministers on Imperial economic projects. The Rev. J. K. Archer, the unsuccessful Labour candidate for Kaiapoi. has been asked by the members of Colombo Street Baptist Church to reconsider his previously-announced intention to retire from the ministry. A notification from the church members states that his decision was reached before Wednesday, and was entirely unaffected by the result of tho election (states the “Christchurch Times’’). Mr Archer has not yet decided what action he will tike. At a meeting of tho management committee of the New Zealand Cricket Council its chairman, Mr E. R. Caygill, said that cricket in New Zealand had suffered a great loss by the death of Mr E. Heathcote Williams, of Hawke’s Bay, who had been one of tho foremost figures in its administration from his youth to the time of his death. No president of the council had taken a more active interest in cricket affairs. The committee expressed its deep sympathy with Mr Williams’s relatives. The Governor-General, Lord Bledisloc, and Lady Bledisloe, attended the service at St. Mark’s Church, Wellington, yesterday morning. In the evening Their Excellencies left Wellington by the Limited express. They will pay official visits to Feilding Dannevirke Patea, Hawera, Stratford, and Martom Their Excellencies will also visit Wanganui and Rotorua before going into residence in Government House, Auckland, on December 21. They will remain in Auckland for Christmas and -the early part of the New Year,