PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 300, 2 December 1933, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr N. R. C, Wilson is at present staying with Dr. and Mrs Faulkner, Alexander Crescent.

Mr J. S. B ton, C.M.G.. who is to act as commissioner on the Tutaekuri River Diversion Commission, arrived in Napier last evening.

Mr. Hugh Walpole, the distinguished novelist and literary critic, hopes next year to revisit Auckland, his birthplace, which he loft when five years old.

Mr. T. E. O’Dowd, president of the H.B. Aero Club, is in Wellington attending the annual meeting of the N.Z. Aero Club. He is expected to return to Hastings on Monday.

Mr. J. Paynter, of St. George's road, Hastings, has been seriously ill for the past few days, but his condition showed a slight improvement this morning Mr. Paynter is in his 90th year.

Mr. T. C. List, District Governor of Rotary International for New Zealand, is expected to arrive in Hastings on Tuesday next on his way to Gisborne. He will return to Hastings on Tuesday, December 12 and on the Wednesday will address the Hastings Rotarians. Mr. List will also give an address at lona College on Speech Day, December 14.

His Grace the Archbishop of New Zealand has appointed the Rev. E. M. Cowie, M.A., vicar of Khandallah in the Diocese of Wellington, to be his commissary for the purpose of calling and presiding at the Synod of the Diocese of Nelson, which will elect a successor to the present bishop, who will retire next year. The Rev. E. M. Cowie is a son of the late Bishop Cowie, of Auckland, who was Primate from 1893 to 1902. He was vicar of Hamilton from 1908 to 1926, and Archdeacon from 1913 to 1929. It is proposed to call the special session for the election of a bishop for Thursday, December 14. Mr. Cowie has issued a letter to the clerical and lay members of the Synod calling them to meet for a quiet day of prayer and devotion on Wednesday, December 13, as a spiritual preparation for the important work for which the Synod is being assembled.