PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 11 February 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

i.. - — ■ » • ~ .-, ;, J Mr. W. Young, branch manager a Mahoe for the Mangatoki Dairy Co. • lias accepted the position of manage) r to the Patua Dairy Company. The death of Mrs Gifford, relict o the late Mr Isaac Gifford, a pionee: settler of Maryborough, occurred a Blenheim on Saturday, at the age of 9i [ years and 8 months. ! Mr. B. Masters, M.P., ,was a passen . ger by the express this morning. H< , was on his way to make a tour of th< j East Coast of the North Island. A cable from London states that th< ! Aero Club is giving a reception an( ■ dinner to Sir Keitk Boss-Smith 01 February 22. The Prince of Walesan< i the Duke of York will attend. Mr. A. T. Christensen, chairman o: the Patea Harbor Board, intends tak ing a trip Home shortly, and will-prob ably leave for the Old Country aboui May next. It is his intention to b< absent about six months. Another link with the early colonisi .days has been severed by the death in Auckland, at the age of 81, of Mr Thomas Edmund Smith, late >of Kaitua and one of the best known settlers ii the MiTanda district. Mr. David Carter, manager for th< Union Steamship Company at Newcastle, formerly manager for the com, pany at Fiji—has been appointed to th« charge of the Auckland branch in sue--1 cession to Mr. J. H. C. Band, who has jußt Teceived the appointment of Dominion superintendent of the. New Zealand Shipping Company. Mr. Carter's successor at Newcastle will be Mr. P. N. Jeffreys, the present manager at Greymouth. Mr. W. B. Cunningham, sub-manager at Lyttelton, will succeed Mr. Jeffreys at Greymouth, and Mr. J. N. Greenland, of the Wellington staff, has been appointed actingmanager at Lyttelton.