PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 106, 18 April 1933, Page 6

PERSONAL

Miss Axaureen Brandon-Jones is spending the holidays at Alastcrton and is the guest of Mrs Hoar, of Cambridge Terrace. Miss Al Wilson, of Dunedin, is at present on a holiday visit to Hastings and is staying witli Air and Mrs A. Simpson. The Rev. M. W. P. Lascelles, who has been visiting Hastings, left by the mail train this morning for Wellington en loute for Dunedin, where he will attend the Baptist Jubilee. Mrs David Wilson, Twyford, Hastings, was a passenger by the Wanganella en route to Tasmania, where she will be the gu s' of her daughter, Mrs J. K. Inglis, Launceston. Mr G. R. Hutchinson, who has been a member of the Auckland Harbour Board for 13 years, and chairman for the past two years, has announced that he will not offer himself for re-election. Miss K. Ashcroft and Miss Taylor, who have been staying with the farmer's parents at Havelock North during Easter, returned to Wellington by this morning’s mail train. The Bev. Bro. P. X. Webster, of St. Patrick’s College, Goulburu, Australia, was a passenger by the Alakura, which arrived at Wellington yesterday from Sydney. He is going to St. Kevin’s College, Timaru. Air Oliver Nicholson, ex-chairman of the board of directors of the Bank of New Zealand, has been appointed vicepresident of the New Zealand Racing Conference, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Air H. O. Nolan. The death has occurred of Mr A. G. Stephens, a leading Australian author and literary critic. At one time he conducted the Bed Page in the “Bulletin”. Formerly he was associated with the Wellington “Evening Post.” Messrs T. AL Silk, of Wanganui, and R. F. G. Hutchison, • f Masterton, two members of the crew of the Auckland yacht Heartsease, which recently made a cruise of the South Sea Islands, returned from Sydney by the Alakura yesterday'. A Perth cable reports the death of Mr John Ralston, the well known theatrical artist. He began his stage education as a member of Tom Pollard’s company of Lilliputians, which toured New Zealand for a number of years, and latterly appeared with the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas. Mr S. Macfarlane has been appointed chairman of the Southern Hawke’s Bay Stock Auctioneers’ Association in succession to Air. R. E. Bunny, who resigned on his retirement from Afessrs Williams and Kettle. Air. Bunny had been chairman of the association <nce its inception. Professor F. Gordon Bell, Professor of Surgery at Otago University, returned to Wellington by the Makura from Sydney yesterday morning. Professor Bell delivered the Syme Oration at the annual meeting of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Sydney last week. He left for Marlborough yesterday afternoon on his return to Dunedin. Mr lan Blair, son of the Bev. C. Blair, Karori, a third-year student at Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, has recently been awarded the scholarship provided by the Shell Oil Company of New Zealand. He has also been successful in winning the prize awarded by the Chilian Nitrate Company for a digest of experimental work. Lieutenant W. A. W. Jameson, R.A.F., aged 20, son of Mr S. W. Jameson, of Christchurch, was killed in a flying accident at Suez, according to a private cable. Lieutenant Jameson was educated at Christ’s College, passed the aviation examinations brilliantly, and was recently transferred from England to Heliopolis. He was trained at Christchurch and at Dunedin.—Press Assn. The Rev. Otto Fitzgerald, vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Avonside, Christchurch, has retired. He preached his farewell sermon on Sunday evening, after having been 23 years in the parish. Mr Fitzgerald 1* a son of Air James Edward Fitzgerald, the founder of “The Press,” and the first superintendent of Canterbury. He was born in Wellington following his father’s transfer to the capital after the establishment of central government. Mr Fitzgerald was ordained deacon in Wellington in 1893, and priest in 1897 in Lichfield; he was curate of St. Mark’s, Wellington, 1893-95, and vicar of St. Thomas’s Wellington, 1898-1901. Ono of the oldest persons in New Zealand, Mrs Henry Mahon Jervis, of Auckland, will celebrate her 101st birthday to-morrow. Mrs Jervis was able to take an active part in a large family gathering, to mark her centenary, 12 month ago, but she has been in a very poor state of health for same weeks past, and accordingly no similar celebrations have been planned this year. Jli Jervis, whose maiden name was Aliss Ellen Dodds, was born in Sydney in 1832. It is curious to recall that she was a delicate girl, and that it was on account of her health that she came to New Zealand at the age of 17. It was thought that the change might do her health good, and it speaks well for New Zealand that she never had an illness afterward until quite recently, when the frailties of extreme old ago have made themselves apparent. Auother very old and well-known resident of Hastings passed away on Saturday in the person of Airs Euphemia Morrison George, relict of the late Air Alfred Amory George. The late Airs George was born at Dumbarton 76'years ago and came to this country at the age of four years, landing qt Dupedin. where she resided for 25 years. She had been a resident of Hastings for over 47 years, during which time she made a wide circle of friends. Although she had been a semi-invalid for the past six months it was only two days ago that she became ill. and then not seriously, but her death occurred suddenly on Saturday evening. She leaves a family of two sons, Air P. J S. George, of Hastings, and Air S. H. George, of Dunedin. and five daughters, Mrs J. McKittrick, Airs W. A. Bryant, Mrs H. fills. Airs F. Deans, all of Hastings, and Airs F. A Humnhries of Johannesburg. The funeral took place yesterday morning.

Air and Mrs F. Benda)!, of Palmerston North who have been visiting Hastings returned to their home town this morning. The death occurred at her residence, 87 Hill Street, Wellington, on Saturday, of Airs Jessie Fife, widow of the late Air A. C. K. Fife, who was formerly accountant to the New Zealand Railways. Airs Fife was in her 90th year. The death occurred on Good Friday of Airs Lilian Grace Howorth, wife of Air Charles H. Howorth, a well-known civil engineer and artist who was county engineer for Southland and later engineer to the Wellington Harbour Board. Airs Howorth as the eldest daughter of Captain J. W. Raymond, formerly of the Avondale Station, Southland, and one of New Zealand’s oldest pioneers. Airs A. E. Palmer, wife of Dr Palmer, Wellington, is Airs Howorth’s only daughter, and her son Air Charles R. Howorth, civil engineer and architect, lives in Kingston, Jamaica. There are three grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. The death is announced from Dunedin of Air Alfred Dillon Bell, aged 81, a well-known runholder, aud a brother of Sir Francis Bell, Ai.L.C. The late Air Bell was first chairman of the Waihemo County Council, and was a member of the Otago Military Appeal Board during the War. Shortly alter leaving school he went to live at the Shag Valley Station homestead, where he resided almost continuously from that time. Tins station,, and the Ida Valley run, were his chief interest* in the pastoral industry. The latter property was, however, taken over for closer settlement on the expiry of the lease some years ago. Although his pastoral interests called for the expenditure of a large amount of time, Mr Bell devoted a great deal of attention to the study of chemistry and physics, and was recognised as an authority on these subjects and o» many matters outside the range of the industry in which he was engaged. Unlike his distinguished father and his elder brother. Sir Francis Bell, he was not prominently associated with public life. He married the second daughter of Air H. W. Robinson, district judge and his widow and one son (Air Prank Bell) and one daughter (Aliss Brenda Bell) survive him