PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 107, 19 April 1933, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr H. S. Apsey, of Hastings, left this morning on business trip to Wellington. Sir Charles Statham, Speaker of the House of Representatives, spent Easter at Porangahau as the guest of Mr and Mrs T. Hobson. Miss M. Stevenson left Hastings by the mail train this morning for Wellington en route to Sydney. She was accompanied by Miss C. McPhee as far as Wellington. Mr and Mrs J. Coupe returned to Hastings yesterday after visiting Palmerston. North to attend the wedding of their elder sou, Jack, to Miss Edna Manson, of Palmerston North. The Rev. T. O. Beattie, who has been lor the last 23 years doing Anglican missionary work iu South Africa among the Zulus, arrived at Auckland on Monday by the Monowai on a holiday visit. Mr. J. D. Wilson has been re-elected unopposed as Mayor of Pahiatua, also as borough representative on the Tararua Power Board. There are no contests for tho council or Hospital Board. —Press Assn. Cable advice has been received by the Hawke’s Bay and East Coast Aero Club to the effect that Mr Stanley G. White, of Havelock North, a former pupil of the club, who left New Zealand iu December last, has passed all his tests in England and has been accepted for service in the Royal Air Force. A Singapore message states that Mr W. H Donald, formerly of the Melbourne “Argus," who had been appointed adviser to the various Ministries of the Chinese Government, arrived at Singapore en route for Italy. He is accompanying Marshal Chang Hsueh-hang, the Manchurian War Lord, who is retiring owing to difficulties with the National Government. Mr Donald has lived in China for 30 years and was for a few year* editor of the “China Mail.’’ Mr G. V. Oldham will retire from the management of the Sydney branch of the Union Bank of Australia, Limited, on April 28, having held that position since December 10, 1924. Mr Oldham was born on October 28, 1869, and at the date of his retirement he will have had the longest service of nny officer at present in the bank. He joined the Union Bank of Australia, Ltd., at Ballarat, in February, 1886. He will be succeeded by Mr J. G. A. Rae, who has been in charge of the whole of the bank's business in Western Australia for some years. The death occurred on Sunday in Christchurch of Mr Matthew Moloney, formerly telegraph mechanician at Dunedin and Christchurch. He was actively engaged in the ’eighties in the extension of telegraph lines in Otago and Southland. He leaves a widow and four daughters, Mrs H. A. Rhind and Mrs R. L. Kennett, and the Misses A. K. and E. Moloney; also three sons, R. S. Moloney, Deputy-Public Trustee at Dunediu, J. K. Moloney, a solicitor, of Christchurch, and W. M. Moloney, of Brisbane. Prior to the commencement of today’s sale at Stortford Lodge, the local stock auctioneers took the opportunity of presenting a tobacco pouch and a pipe to Mr. T. G. Tyrer, on the eve of his approaching marriage. In a happy speech, Mr. N. Stewart wished both Mr. Tyrer and his bride-to-be the best of everything. Replying, Mr. Tyrer thanked the auctioneers for their kindly thought, and stated that he had always considered it a privilege to be associated with the Hawke’s Bay auctioneers. Those present included Messrs. N. Stewart, J. Thompson, J. Wedd, 8. F. Brandon, 8. I. Dixon, B. Helps, and O. Krogh.