PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 270, 29 October 1932, Page 7

PERSONAL

At * meeting of the New Zealand Fruit Control Board yesterday Mr H. E. Stephens, of Stoke, Nelson, was appointed chairman. Mr F. C. Wilkinson, of Hastings, has been elected a member of the committee of the Beal Estate Institute of New Zealand. Vice-Admiral Sir William Fisher left London on Thursday for Malta, where he will take over as Commander-in-Chief of th- Mediterranean Fleet.— Wirelesa. Sergeant-Major William Hawkins, one of Canada’s greatest rifle shots, winner of the King’s Prize at Bisley in 1913, died on Thursday while playing golf, says a Toronto cable. Miss Katherine Hoby has been awarded the Lady Stout Bursary. The selection was announced by the Victoria Col’ege Council at a meeting on Thursday evening. After speaking to largr audiences in acveral centres, Dr. J. H. Bushbrooke, general stcretary of the Baptist World Alliance, has practically completed his New Zealand visit, and he will leave Wellington for San Francisco by the Makura next Tuesday. Princess Ingrid, of Sweden, has arrived in London, having flown from Belgium, where she has been staying, to Croydon in an Imperial Airways liner. The Princess usually visits her grandfather, the Duke of Connaught, at least once a year.—Wireless. Mr F. Phillips, Under-Secretary to the Treasury, has been appointed one of the Government representatives to the preparatory committee for the forthcoming international monetary and economic conference in place of Sir Walter Layton, resigned.—Wireless. Mrs James Butherford, mother of Lord Rutherford, of Nelson, the famous scientist, to-day celebrates her • 90th birthday. She enjoys remarkably good health and clearly remembers when she landed at Auckland 68 years ago. She lived at New Plymouth till forced to go to Nelson to take refuge from the Maoris. Subsequently she lived at Spring Grove and Fox Hill, Nelson, and Havelock in Marlborough. In 1887 she returned to New Plymouth. —Press Association. Mr Peter McLean, who succeeds Mr M. B. Peat as manager of the local branch of the National Bank of New Zealand, has now taken up his duties, and was welcomed at a gathering held yesterday to bid farewell to Mr Peat. Mr W. B. Hobbs, on behalf of the bank’s customers, hade Mr McLean welcome to Hastings, and Mr Peat paid a tribute to his successor, who was for several years in: the Napier branch of the bank, and is well known to many Hawke 'g Bay people. Between 3000 and 4000 people assembled in Taranaki street, Wellington, yesterday afternoon to witness the funeral of the late Mr Francis Gresser and the late Mr George Bourne Stephen King, who lost their lives on Tuesday in the aeroplane crash near Tawa Flat. Through the city streets many thousands showed their respect and sympathy for the young men and their bereaved relatives by standing bareheaded while the cortege proceeded westward. There was no mistaking the significance of the funeral, as each hearse was surmounted with floral aeroplanes composed of white azaleas and red marigolds, which were forwarded by the social sub-committee of the Wellington Aero Club.