PERSONAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 February 1931, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The transfer of the Rev. W. Beckett, of Levin, to Victoria and Tasmania was approved yesterday by the Methodist Conference, sitting at Dunedin. Miss M. Allen, matron of the Boys’ School at Hokio, is at present on annual leave, which she is spending with Mr and Mrs H. S. Pearce, of Pike’s Road, Manga what a. A postal ballot held on February 18th for the election of officers’ representative on the Post and Telegraph Promotion Board for a period of three years resulted in the election of Mr H. M. Patrick (Wellington), with 4120 votes. His opponent, Mr E. A. Thompson (Christchurch) polled 1910. Mr G. A. Troup, Mayor of Wellington, will be the official Reform candidate for the Wellington North seat at the next general election. A deputation representing the Wellington division of the executive of the Reform Party waited on Mr Troup last evening, and to an invitation to contest the constituency in the Reform interest he replied in the affimative.

Mr J. K. Hornblow, chairman of the Palmerston North Hospital Board, and Mr A. J. Phillipps, managing-secretary, motored to Napier on Thursday and returned yesterday. They wore accompanied from Palmerston by Ur. Biggs, superintendent of the Napier Hospital, which is to be re-opened shortly by utilising the wooden wards which escaped the destructive effects of the earthquake. The party visited the various hospitals in Hawke’s Bay that have been accommodating victims of the shake, and met Mr E. 0. V’or?. j , chairman of the Napier Hospital Board, who was deeply grateful for the assistance rendered by the Palmerston, Board in receiving a great many of the cases from the earthquake a fa;