PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 15 April 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

-Private advice received in Wellington on Wednesday was to the effect that Mr E. Kellett, M.P., is in a very low! condition, and that his health is causing his friends the gravest anxiety.A London cable says an earldom has been conferred on Sir Arthur Balfour, i who was recently knighted for his dis-: tmguished service at the Washington Conference. Mr W. S. Pratt, who held important positions on the National Mortgage Company's staff, and was also assistant wheat controller under the Government, has been appointed general manager oi the Northern Roller Mills.—Press Association. The latest report, of Mr J. Duffy, who met with a serious accident at Oeo last Saturday night, and who is an inmate of the Manaia private hospital, is that he is doing well. His many friends ■ wish him a speedy recovery. Mr P. W. Hodder, some time ago a tanner at Tututawa, near Stratford died at Auckland last week. He was born in Wellington 75 years ago and lived for many years in the Wairarapa and Dannevirke districts. His wife died at Stratford about fourteen months The death of the Bight Hon. Thomas Hurt, member in the House of Commons for Morpeth from 1874 to 1918 is recorded in a cable from London He commenced life by working in "coal mines when ten years old, and rose to cfrdjr an important fi»ure in Labour FiP^i'9 i c iomin§ to New Zea]and Miss JUla Shields and her company played a season at the Theatre R<J ya l, Adelaide Just before leaving, she was enterained at a luncheon by Lady Weigall at GovfrTrV H°USe" nMiss Shields aPP*^s day 94fHa- Vei; a °pera House on M°»uay, 24th instant.

The death occurred yesterday of WalAllo.W Tv- Mr J aii? Ml& ChaHes Alien of AVaihi road, Hawera, at the age of nme years and three months lhe cause of death was acute menial gitis Deceased was a very bright boy Much sympathy will be feit for the bt reaved parents in this sad loss for the little fellow who has just passed away gave promise of developing £to reslden? nhO°f d- + >,The funeral ]eav*s "^ residence of the parents for Waihi cemetery at 1.30 p.m. to-morrow. Sir George Wintoringham Fuller the prospective Premier of New South I Wales is approaching his 61st year His scholastic career at the University of Sydney was distiguished. While there he gamed the Marks Scholarship and his JJ.A. and MA. degrees with honours. Although Sir George Fuller was admitted to the Bar of Jsew South S 6S w any ears/SO, he rarely pracJi -x He P^erred politics to the law and it is now 33 years since he first, b^A th\?Ol ti(i al arena as the m^ber tor his birthplace, Kiama. He was SS \h CSU i Wanting lllawarra. Jtlad the Holman Government not been' nl c hatf dr + Sll;Geor^ Full€l> would in all ' probability have gained a baronetcy I Mr J M. A. Ilott, managing dire^-! J l'? J; Uott Ltd left by the Tahiti' on luesday far the United States Eiw-, land and the/Continent. Prior to hts departure he was made the recipient of a handsome Kaiapoi travelling ru^ ■ bearing his monogram,, and presented by the combined staffs of the Welling-' ton, Auckland, Christchurch and Dun-1 edm othces of the company. The staff also took the opportunity 6f presenting Mrs Ilott. a du-ector of the compam% SS a ir.amed, I? 1" 0"? «t' individual photographs of the executives and S ell managjprs as a mark of their goodwill and loyalty. Mrs J. M. A iiott, who accompanies Mr Ilott on the tour, was handed a morocco bound diary with suitably embossed cover.

. At a meeting of the Taranaki Provinnn ™ XeT tlV%,-of^ th<} Fai™ei~s' Union on Ihursday, Mr Dunn moved, and Mr Maxwell seconded the following resolution : "On the occasion of Mr Walker severing his connection with the Hawera Star, the Taranaki Executive of the h armers' Union wishes to express and place on record its appreciation of the service the Star has rendered to the union and the farming community e en, erally, and particularly to express its sincere thanks to Mr Walker for the keen interest and sympathy he has shown throughout Jn all things connected with farming production and for his assistance to the Farmers' Union in its endeavour to protect and further the interests of the farming community" ilie president, and Messrs Mills BnV-k-l endge Maxwell, Pierce and Swindlehurst also, paid a glowing tribute to the Star and to Mr Walker, who, the speakers, said, had done his best to further the interests of the farmer. The motion was carried with applause

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