PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 126, 14 May 1935, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr. Arthur Tonkin, of Hastings, left by aeroplane this morning on a brief business visit to Gisborne.

Messrs J. S. Jessep and .T. N. Massey M.P., have been appointed ns member* of the Board of Native Affairs.—l*roes Assn.

Mr W. H. Field announces that he will again contest the Otaki seat at the general election as a National Government candidate.—Press Assn.

The Governor-General, Lord Galway, has accepted the office of patron of the New Zealand League for the Hard of Hearing.

Past-President T. M. Geddis and Rotarian 1.. Pickering, of the Napier Rotary Club, were welcomed back at yesterday’s luncheon after absence on trips abroad.

Mr D. Johnston, of 310 Avenue road, Hustings, celebrated his 86th birthday on Sunday, when he received the good wishes of many friends. Mr Johnston is one of the few surviving Maori war veterans, having taken part in the fight at Omaranui and in the Taranaki wars from 180(1 to 1870. Ho spent many years in the Danneiirke district, where he is widely known by the earlier settlers. Age ta no way Lus impaired ku health and he is still hale and hearty.

Dr. Helen Deem, M.D., formerly of Wanganui, a daughter of Professor uud Mrs. Easterfield, Nelson, has been successful in obtaining the diploma of the College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. She has obtained a position as clinical assistant at tho Great Ormond Street Hospital, which is regarded as the foremost children’s hospital in London. Later she will proceed to the Chelsea Hospital for Women. Dr. Deem was the first holder of the Sir Truby King Scholarship.

Miss Augusta Northc, a distinguished artist, from Norfolk, England, is touring New Zealand at present, and her truvclliug companion is Miss Dorothy Turner, of Palmerston Norin, a wellknown etcher of whom New Zealand may well be proud. Both artists were studying in Paris under the celebrated Monsieur Delacluse when they became friends, and both have achieved the honour of having pictures hung in the Royal Academy and in the Paris Miss Turner’s etching in the Salon won honourable mention.

Mr J. G. Gibbs, son of Dr. H. E. Gibbs, of Wellington, who is a member of the staff of the Plant Research Station of the Agricultural Department at Palmerston North, has been awarded the Harkness Community Fellowship, which entitles the holder to two years’ study in the United States. There are many of these fellowships, left by a Mrs Harkness, wife of a railway magnate, and a number of them are awarded to civil servants of the British Empire. Jt is understood that 11 r» Harkness, who was a Scottish lady, included the British Empire through hor desire to see happy relations established between America and England.— Press Assn.