PERSONAL ITEMS.
Dr. Valmtme, Inspector-fienerai of Hospitals, was in Hawera this morn- • mg. He inspected the local institu- - tion with the chairman of the Board ►
A cablegram from Adelaide states that Mr Edgar R. Wait e> F.L.S., curator of the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, has been appointed a diredtor of the Adelaide Public Library 7 Bbsfrd 'Which- controls the South Australiai* Rational Museum. The salary will be£oOo per annum. -'.
At .a representative. gathering of* settlers and .^townspeople at Stratford: on Saturday Mr W.Moraht Bayly, whorecently resigned from the/service of the National Bank of New Zealand of the Stratford branch of which he bad been manager ; since it "was1 opened 4^' years ago, presented with a purse • of sovereigns arid an illuminated ad-/ dress. During the proceedings Mr: Bayly announced that he would not be leaving Stratford as he had that daycompleted arrangements to purchase the business of Messrs W. H. H. Young and Co. ■
Our Tokaora correspondentwrites as I follows: "At the conclukionS«f the picnic festivities on Thursday last, the*, chairman was. handed a telegram informing him that; the wife i&zSfFW.. ' 7h Davey, Te Kiri, his" JpnJy married nephew, had passed away that morning; at New Plymouth. The news was soon passed round, < for there were manypresent thai; knew the deceased from her childhood as Miss Jean Campbell, daughte^xjf |djr Sam Campbell,. Pihama, N and since ;^ another's death till thetime df'her ihirrlage was in, Charge of her father* household. Much sym^ pa thy was felt and expressed for they "bereaved husband, father, brothers, and sisters, and a large circle of relatives, for Jean was a general favoriteamongst all classes at Pihama. The' interment took place" at 2>p^m. to-dd^-(FHday) in -the ;Pihama cemetery, alongside the; remains --of;>her moth«^ and,grandmother,, amdist a large coh--course of mourners." • I;
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 22 December 1913, Page 4
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294PERSONAL ITEMS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 22 December 1913, Page 4
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