PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 147, 7 June 1932, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mrs. S. E. Jones, of Hastings, who has been on a holiday visit to Linton, has returned home.

Mr J. S. Barton, chief commissioner for Napier, who is in Wellington on business connected with the affairs of Napier, is expected to return to-mor-row night.

Mrs. A. B. Miller and her daughter Hazel of St. George’s road, Hastings, arrived by the Tainui last Friday. Mrs Miller has been visiting her parents in Glasgow, Scotland.

A Brisbane cable announces the death of Mr. Richard Sanderson Taylor, aged 65, editor of the Brisbane “Courier” for the last thirteen years. He had been on the staff of the “Courier” for 45 years.

A Sydney cable reports the death of Mrs. Grace Poole Ziele, aged 86. She was married at Clyde, Central Otago, and w-as the daughter of Mrs. Roberts, the wife of Professor Roberts. Dr. Herbert Ziele, of Napier, is a son of the late lady.

Mr. A. D. Gaunt, accountant of tho head office in New Zealand of the Commercial Bank of Australia, Ltd., has received notice of appointment to the inspectors’ department of the head otlice of the bank in Melbourne. Mr. Gaunt, who was formerly manager of the bank’s branches at Newton (Auckland) and New Plymouth, is succeeded by Mr. F. B. Barber, late manager at Wanganui and formerly manager at. Napier.

Mr D. J. Cummings, formerly inspector of police at Napier and recently appointed superintendent at Christchurch, was a guest at the Napier Rotary Club luncheon yesterday afternoon, a welcome being extended to him by tho president, Mr T. M. Geddis, who also extended congratulations to him upon the manner in which he had handled the situation during the recent labour disturbances upon his arrival at Christchurch. In tho course of his reply Mr Cummings said that he arrived in Christchurch on the Sunday morning and that afternoon he had to make an immediate start upon his work in connection with the strike.

At the luncheon given on the King’s Birthday to inmates of the Veterans’ Home at Auckland the oldest veteran was Private W. Anderson, aged 90, who served during the Maori War. He was aide-de-camp to Major Whitmore during the campaign of 1863, took part in an engagement at Taradale, Hawke’s Bay, and was one of the first white men to reach tho scene of the Hauhau murders at Mohaka in 1869, when 26 friendly natives and several Europeans were killed by Te Kooti. Tho home w-as visited by the GovernorGeneral and Lady Bledisloe, who had a little talk with each of the old warriors and made each a little present.