PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 16 May 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mrs. <3. Home has been appointed Commissioner for Tananaki of the Girl Peace Scouts. The^ Rev. £L L. Goldthorpe has been appointed to succeed the Key. J. G. Castle in charge of All Saints parish at Elthiam. At the meeting of the New Plymouth High Schools' Board last night a vote of sympathy was passed with the relatives of the late Mr. S. Percy Smith, who was a former member of the board. Messrs E. A. Washer and S. Blake are representing the Egmont A. and P. Association at a conference of the Taranaki A. and1 P. Association at Stratford to-day, called for the purpose of discussing remits to be forwarded to the Dominion conference. - Mr. Edward Kellett, M.P. for Dunedin North, who has been ailing for some months, and who underwent a serious operation for an internal complaint six weeks ago, died v4.ast night, aged. 57. He i 3 survived by his widow and six children, the youngest being five years. • At the meeting of the, New_ Plymouth High Schools' Board the resignation of Miss J. McLeod, M.A., who has been (on the staff of the Boys' High School for the past seven years, was received I and accepted with regret. Miss Me- ', Leod has accepted the position of first assistant at the Waitaki Girls' High School. The board decided to place on , record its appreciation of her services. Mr. Douglas McDonald, who .for the past five years has been on the Stratford staff* of the Loan and Mercantile ; Company, has received notice of his ' transfer to the company's head office in Wellington. On Saturday evening i Mr. Hewitt, Stratford manager of the company, presented Mr. McDonald, on : behalf of the, staff, with a travelling bag. Dame Clara Butt and her husband, Mr. Kennerley Rumford, > had a novel 1 experience at Xaneouver, British Oolum. bia. The Cululol Theatre was occupied by, a theatrical company, ..but the diJEiculty was got over ; by the ; famous concert artists appearing after the conclusion of the theatrical performance. The started at 11 o'clock each evening, and ended at 1.30 next morning. Despite the cold weather the audiences were large and enthusiastic. Owing to ill-health, which necessitated his going into hospital, Mr. W. Mead has resigned his position of the I Tongariro National Park. Mr. Mead is i well known to, mountaineers in the North Island, and his resignation will be viewed with regret (states the Taumarunui correspondent of the Auckland Star). The popularity of the park as a tourist resort is iii a large measure due to the enthusiastic pioneer work Mr. Mead has done in the' vicinity "of Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe. The Tourist Department has appointed a Mount Cook guide, Mr. Cowley, to the position of caretaker of the park temporarily, and he has arrived in Waimarino to take over his duties. New Zealand's prima donna, Miss Rosina Buckman, yesterday set foot once more on her native New Zealand. : She was most enthusiastically received. 'A civic reception was accorded her at Wellington, when .the Prime Minister, the Mayor, Sir Joseph Ward, and Mr. Robert Parker (the latter on behalf of musicians) cordially welcomed her and her husband, Mr. -Maurice D'Oisley. Mr. Massey,. Sir Joseph Ward, and Mr. Wright spoke of the rapid rise to fame of the New, Ze.alander, of whom we were justly proud. They congratulated Miss Buckman on the position she had reached in the musical world. Miss Buckman was overwhelmed with the-cordiality .'of the reception. It is nine years since she left New Zealand. ,The interval has no£ been without hard work, for Covent Garden is not attainable -without close $tudy as well as the voice and ambition.—Press Association.