PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 250, 5 October 1932, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr. W. P. Hayes, of Hastings, is visiting Whangamomona, Taranaki. Mr. William Adam, of Hastings, left by the mail train this morning for Wellington, en route to London. Captain Edgell, formerly in charge of Australian naval survey, has been appointed hydrographer to the Royal Navy.—Press Assn. Mr. lan Mclntosh, of the staff of the Bank of New Zealand, Hastings, left by this morning’s mail train on transfer to Pongaroa. The death occurred on Monday of Lord Wolverton, aged 71, senior partner in Glyn, Mills and Company, bankers.—Wireless. Mr L. W. Howard, of Hastings, has Ifcoen appointed the Heretaunga Anglers’ Club’s representative to the Hawke’s Bay Acclimatisation Society. Miss Bennett, travelling secretary of the Young Helpers’ League, who is representing Dr. Barnado’s Homes, is visiting Hawke’s Bay, and is staying with Mrs. de Lisle, of Tomoana road. Major C. M. Barclay-Harvey, M.P. for Kincardine and West Aberdeenshire in the British House of Commons, with Mrs. Barclay-Harvey and their daughter, arrived at Auckland by the Aorangi. They will make a month’s tour of the Dominion. Earl Jellicoe (writes a London «arrespondent- under date September 2), has been compelled to take farther rest in bed. The fact that he was not in his usual health was revealed during an inspection of tho East Cowes Sea Scouts, to whom Lord Jellicoe sent his greetings and an apology for his absence. A Sydney cable states that Captain A. Sangster, New South Wales superintendent of navigation, retires tomorrow after 36 years’ service. The Navigation Department will be controlled by the Commonwealth Department under Captain G. D. Williams, Federal Deputy-Director of Navigation. To mark the occasion of Ms retirement from the State Forestry Service after 30 years’ service, a complimentary dinner and social was tendered Mr. R. Macßae, senior ranger, on Saturday evening at the Geyser Hotel, Whakarewarewa, Rotorua. There were over 80 present, including several officers of the State Forest Service and private forestry companies. Mr. MacRae came to New Zealand from Inverness in 1901 and shortly after his arrival entered the Forestry Service at Rotorua.

The death has occurred at Onehunga of Mr. John Henley, a pioneer railways official in New Zealand, aged 80 years. Mr. Henley entered the railway service in the early days and was stationed at Manutahi before the WellingtonTaranaki line had reached Hawera, 10 miles further on. Previously he had been a member of the 6th Armed Constabulary, stationed between Napier and Taupo, and assisted in the transport of recruits from Auckland. Mr. Henley is survived by three sons and two daughters, one son having been killed in the Great War.