PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVIII, Issue LXXVIII, 13 June 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

"Our correspondent writes: Manaia &nd district are glad to welcome home Privates Albert Bonny, Walter Whitton, and Thomas Rielly, who have been away on active service for over three years in France.

A London cable message states that General Sir H. C. O. Plumer has been sworn in as Governor of Malta.

Mr Mclvor, manager of the Bank of Australasia (Manaia) has received word that his mother died at Invercargill on Monday. The people of the district extend to Mr Mclvor their sympathy in his sad bereavement.

It is understood (says the Auckland Herald) that Mr Henry Rothery, contractor', Te Kuiti, will contest the Waitomo seat at the forthcoming general election.

Mr A. H. Hansen, of Manaia, who has been very ill for the last two weeks, is improving (our correspondent reports) and will soon be about again.

We (Te Aroha News) have it on good authority that the Hon. W. H. Herries, M.P. for the Tauranga electorate, is to have opposition at the forthcoming general elections. The new candidate will be Mr B.C. Robbins, ex-Mayor of Tauranga, and a prominent figure in. local affairs%i and about Tauranga for several ye.irs past. Mr Robbins was for many y°ars Mayor of Hawera and prominent in other public bodies.