PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 4 July 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

*•• \h Northcliffe',. it is, announced, will visit Australia tnis- year (says a cable from London)! " The Hon. G.J.: Anderson was operated on on Saturday and is progressing satisfactorily., says a Press Association message from Wellington. I Mr. S. E. McGregor, inspector of fac-' tories, Hamilton, has been transferred to New Plymouth. / : . j Sir William Fraser is- in a private hospital. in Wellington in; consequence of am attack of pneumonia. Mr.. J. N. Mcßae; assistant town clerk at Waihi, - has been appointed town clerk at Morrinsville, for- which position there were 60 applicants. l? { Mr: H. Wt. Hilton, manager of the' Dunedin branch of the Bank of New1 Zealand, has retired after thirty-eight' years' service. - . j ~ The death is reported of Mr.. Thomas Slower,'of Bulls, at the age of 77. Deceased's parents were amongst the first settlers in Nelson, where Mr. Flower was born *in 1844. ' The death occurred in London a few days ago of Mrs. Arthur H. Nathan, formerly a resident of Auckland, and mother'of Mr. Charles I Nathan and: #r. Louis N. Nathan, of Au&land. ) Dr. Colin Anderson, lately house' surgeon, of the Christchurch Hospital, who went to Liverpool'some months ago to further his studies in radiology, has gained a 'two- years' Xnr-ay research scholarship (cancer, etc.) of £400 per year at Manchester University. Mr. D. M. Wilson, late district surveyor of Kaitaia, has returned to New Plymouth and has taken over the duties *of chief draftsman of the Lands De-i partment: Mr. Wilson, at the instiga-' J tion of Mr. S. Percy Smith, Bas been | making some researches and surveys for' j the Polynesian Society in the far north. ! [ Mr. Alexander Leek, whose death is i .reported, was art old and popular resident of Port Chalmers; The deceased, who, was, eighty years of age, was town clerk of the borough from 1579 to-1913. \ Since* retiring he had taken a great interest in the local Old Identities' Association, of which body he i was assistant secretary; Another of the band of early pioneers, in the person of Mr.. Edwin Lightfoot, who died at Auckland last week, has passed aw»ay at the age of 88 years. Mr. Lightfoot was well known/ in the hardware: trade; having been connected with that business for many years in Auckland. He was anative of London and as ,sl young man' joined-the 65th Regiment, serving 12 years with the colours and rising to the rank of in-; structor at the Hythe School of Mus-' ketry. During the Maori wars he s^w ' much service throughout the Taranaki and Auckland campaigns. When the troops went back to England he elected to take his discharge in New Zealand, and had resided in Auckland ever since.