PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 7 May 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Ihe death occurred ou Sunday of Mr Ji-dward Hopkins, who had carried on business m Greymoutli for the past nrty years. , r A cable from London says the late Mr Haddon Chambers, the Australian dramatist, died intestate. He left £9195. Dr T. G. 'Gray, assistant medical ofncer at Seacliff, has been appointed medical superintendent of the Mental Hospial, Nelson. ' •At Thursday night's meeting of the Management Committee of the New Zealand "Rugby Union Mr G W Slade was re-elected chairman for the ensuing year. . Mr S. Myerscough, who is examiner in practical music for the Trinity Coli lege of Music, London, will leave San Francisco for New Zealand on June 24, and will start his work in Auckland about July 12. A largely-attended meeting of the congregation of St. Stephen's Church, ionsonby (Auckland) unanimously decided to extend a call to the vacant pastorate of the church to the Rev Iraser B. Barton, 8.A., of Westmere! Wanganui. vir A J aMOWer message reports that Mr Massey arrived, on Thursday. He said that he was willing to enact a trade reciprocity agreement with Canada. • Mr;WT. Jennings, M.P. for Waitomo, will probably leave for England by the Port Hacking next Saturday ■a R^SPP 86*-^-- :T^*r Ireland, France and Uallipoh. One of "his sons is buried in Ireland and another in Gallipoli. Mr. Hans Olsen, an old resident of Norsewood, died at the. Waipukurau hospital on Sunday last, in his 87th year. He arrived in Napier in 1872 by the ship Hooding. He leaves a widow, who has reached the great age of 89' years. Mr George Plummer, of the firm of Hill and Plummer, Ltd., who arrived in New Zealand with the Albertland settlers, died suddenly at Auckland on Monday evening, at fhe age of 81 years. , .• . . A press message from Timaru says S e ,J£ On- F- J- Parr (Minister 6f Health and Education) was at Timaru yesterday. The Minister opened a nurses' hostel, which has just been erected at a cost of £12,000 at the Tjmaru Hospital. The Minister left later for Christchurch. e*il A «rJ,V C- Talbot > superintendent of the Wellington Telegraph Office, who has just completed forty years' continuous service, is retiring at the end of the month (says a press telegram from Wellington). Mr Talbot is £&£ Qi the best-known and most popuU? Mf&em i» the P. and T. service. He has bgen fiye and a half years in command, and before that was in Dunedin for some years and was in charge at Christchurch far four years. Dr Hertz, the Chief Rabbi o f the { Empire, who is due to arrive at Weij lmgton on Monday, is at present,on a j pastoral tour of the British Dominions | m turtherance of a movement headed Iby Mr Lionel de Rothschild to raise 1,000,000 dollars for religious purposes, »* memory o f the Jewish brethren who tell during the war and as a thanksgiving for those who were spared He js accompaniedi By Mr Albert Woolf, 0.13.J1;., vice-president of 'the United Synagogue, and Mr A. H. Valentine, secretary. Dr Hertz was a passenger aboard the Moeraki, which left Sydney j for Wellington on Thursday. J The appointment of Mr A. Esam to I the position of Controller of the Mortgage Division of the Public Trust Office, recently vacated by Mr W. Fordham, retired on superannuation", is announced. Mr Esam is the only son of the late Mr C. G. Esam, solicitor, formerly of Marton, in whose office he j was for a long period prior to joining the service. Mr Esam was for a number of years connected with the State Advances Office, but for the past four years has been on the Legal Division of the Public Trust Office dealing specially with mortgage work and local body loans work. Besides possession of a thorough knowledge of general conveyancing work, he has specialised in local body loans work, and is looked • upon as an expert/in that particular branch.