PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 306, 10 December 1931, Page 6

PERSONAL

Sir Thomas and Lady Sidey left WeL lington for the south last evening. Aiderman S. Walder has been elected Lord Mayor of Sydney, in succession to Alderman Jackson. —Press Association. The Pope gave an audience to the Archbishop of Hobart, states a Rome cable. 'Mr. J. S. Barton, Commissioner for Napier, who is at present in Wellington on business, is expected to return to Napier to-morrow. Dr. T. R. Ritchie, who has been in Napier since the earthquake in February, is returning to Dunedin to take up his position as medical officer of health, and left Wellington by the Rangatira last evening. Dr. Stanley Jones, the author of the book “The Christ of the Indian Road,” has been invited to visit New Zealand in 1932 or 1933 by the New Zealand Missionary Council, reports the “Church News.” The engagement is announced of Miss Iris Thelma Carpenter, youngest daughter of Captain and Mrs B. M. Carpenter, late of Hastings, to George Sidney Dawson eldest son of Mr G. B. Dawson, of Hastings. Mr A. H. C. Orr, manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Sydenham, will retire ou superannuation at the end of the year, and will be succeeded by Mr F. Pender, son of Inspector Pender, for many years head of the Police Force in Christchurch. Mr Vivian Smith, A.R.0.A., at present art master at Wellington Technical College, has been appointed to a similar position at the Wanganui Technical College to succeed Mr Vincent Evans, A.R.C.A., who is returning to England. Mr. James Holes, of Paeroa, late of Hastings and Havelock North, died this morning suddenly. He was a brother of Mesdames Jones, Henry, and Walden, of Hastings, and Webster, of Whakatu. He was predeceased by his wife and eldest son several years ago,. The death occurred at Avalon, California, ou Sunday of Loure E. Grey, aged 70, a brother to Zane Grey, the novelist, from illness resulting from an injury during the world war. Deceased was also a veteran of the SpanishAmerican War, a civil engineer, and a talented painter. Bishop Molyneux, of Melanesia, who recently suffered a serious nervous breakdown, may be returning to England to recuperate fully, states tho “Church News.” “It cannot be doubted that the worry over the financial position <ff the mission, and the struggle to make ends meet on the diminish*, ed income, are responsible for his; breakdown,” the journal states.