PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, 4 October 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Ihe Governor-General proposed to pay a farewell visit to New Plymouthvery shortly.

Mr A. H. Johnstone, a well-known lawyer, left New Plymouth las'; evening for Auckland, where he will in future practice his profession.

Mr Hector C. Johnson has been offered a position as instructor in agriculture by the Auckland Education, itoard. He is at present the instructor m agriculture ; iU nder , the Board.

I Admiral and Lady Jellicoe attended ! r ™ ama ge of Miss Doris Sawyer to Mr Clutna Mackenzie, the blind son of the High Commissioner,, at St. Mary's i Cathedral, Auckland, on Thursday. | Ihe ; bnde, who arrived by the Corinthic, was given away by Lord Jellicoe.

Mr T. hr&nk Old, who recently resigned his position with Messrs Dalo-etv and Co., Ltd:, left on Wednesday to take.up the duties of of the Farmers' Co-operative Organisation Society s Kaponga branch (reports the Dannevirke News).

Sir E. T. Cook (the cable reports), a well-known London journalist and I j® l ' a i' y man » is 6ad ; v aged 62 ' He edited among other papersi the Pall M a li_Gazette, t j ie Westminster Gazette, the Daily News, and wrote on ar.t, antiquities, and edited Ruskin's works

Mr Chas. Pain e has received word that his son, Charles W. - Paine, is returning by the Eemuera, due in Auckland on October 26. Since the armistice he has been on duty at headquarters in London.

Mr Wilkinson, M.P., is home for the week-end, and : is accompanied by Messrs Harris, M.P. for Waitemata, and Anderson, M.P. for Mataura. Messrs J. M. Dickson, M.P. for Port Chalmers, and Statham, M.P. for Dunedin, are expected • to-night, and will *i,° be the, guests of Mr v Wilkinson., All the party will be shown round the district by Mr Wilkinson.

At a meeting of the- Hawera Law .Society yesterday afternoon, Mr H. L. Spratt was appointed honorary secretary and treasurer, vice Mr L. Ethermgton, who has commenced' the practice ->f his profession vat New Plymouth. On the motion of Mr P ODea seconded by Mr F. C. Spratt' a"resolution was carried expressing ap-pr.-iciation of the manner in- which Mr Ethermgton had carried out his.duties and wishing him every success in "his new sphere.

The death took place at Auckland recently of Mr Charles Mackie, formerly secretary of the Patea Farmers' Co-op Freeing Company, and later of the N.Z. Home Builders' Ltd.; The deceased, who was well known in Tarariuu' Was at one tim esecretai-y of the Eltham Dairy Co., relinquishing that positipn to take up the appointment ot representative of the New Zealand producers at Home, .a post which he held for some years.

Many frisnds up and down the coast wid learn with regret of the death at t} f #? e ° f ™ years of Mr J. Crocker, ot -Hirstfands, Normanby, which oc.purred in Hawera this morniii.'r after a, long illness. He was one of tke earliest settlers on the coat, having J-.ved near Normanby for very many years Before that time he was a buyt-r for the Meat Co. fie: was always a consistent and enthusiastic supoorter of the Egmonfc Racing Club, and was : *or many years oh the committee. He had also at different time's owned good horses. He was a man of most sterling character,-and highly esteemed by a large circle of friends. He -haves a family-of five sons-and twd dauo-K+frs Mrs Crocker, it will be. remembered was drowned only a few days ago'j Ilia? tvill have deepest -sympathy-Tin-1 their time of sorrow. j