PERSONAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 December 1929, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Henry Marks has been re-elected Mayor of Suva for the fifth term, ■

Earl Jellicoe formerly GovernorGeneral of New Zealand, will celebrate his seventieth birthday to-day.

“You have coming to you as your new Governor-General, a man who knows all about agriculture,” said his Excellency, Sir Charles Fergusson, during the course of his address at the laying of the foundation stone of Massey Agricultural College. “Without exaggeration, he is the first agricultural expert of the United Kingdom. He will bring a mind trained by a life time in agriculture and it will not be necessary to explain to him exactly how everything is done. He should be able to fill in this country, a position which no other Governor-General has done. He is one who can bring a scientinc and expert knowledge to bear upon the one thing in New Zealand which builds up its prosperity —the land.”

In Lady Bledisloo Government House will have a charming hostess, who has long manifested a particularly keen interest in philanthropic work. Lady Blcdisloe is the younger daughter- of the first Baron Gmutawa, of Swansea, better known as Sir John Jones Jenkins, M.P., a Liberal politician of South Wales, a great industrialist and philanthropist. The Hon. Elaine Joakins, was a well-known philanthropist and promoter of Welsh homo industries. Pho was- also a uoted beauty, and her portrait is included in “Types of English Beauty,” a volume published in London in 1920. Lord Bledisloo was first married in 1898 to the Hon, Bertha Lopes, daughter of the first Lord Ludlow. iShe died three ami a-half years ago, and the second marriage took place in April of last v£ar. Lord Blcdisloe’s heir is the Hon. B. L. Bathurst, who was born in 1899, and there is a second son and a daughter.

Levin residents in general will regret to learn that two of their most esteemed citizens are shortly to take tkcir departure from the town. Mr T. F. Gibson, who was in business in Oxford Street till about a year ago, after which, with Mrs Gibson, he went on a world tour, has taken over a storo in Plimmetton, and they will leave for their new abode next Tuesday. Both have been worthy citizens and havo had much to do with the progress of Levin. As a past president of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr Gibson has a record of unremitting activity, inspired by a wholesome desire to securo all that was best: for the community. Ho has held responsible offices in tho Methodist Church, in which he was always a ready and conscientious worker. The good done by Mrs Gibson can hardly be expressed in words —it showed itself in so many ways. Liko her husband, she has been devoted to the welfare of the church, to the young people of whom she stood almost in the relation of a mother. The Young Women’s Bible Class was her special care, arid many of those who were thus associated with her have to thank her for kindly acta and advice. Mrs Gibson has been a member of the Patriotic Committee since its inception, and. in a number of other directions haa also rendered valuable public service. While a distinct sense of loss will bo felt at the departure of Mr and Mrs Gibson, they will have the combined wishes of the townspeople for their future prosperity and happiness.