PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 9 June 1923, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The death occurred at a. private hospital on June 2 of Jasper Montgomery £,?™fy proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, Hamilton. I The Rev. Evans, of North-E:ist | A ;'iley, has accepted the call to the Kawera Presbyterian Church. Mr. ' Evans -will preach his farewell sermon in the church of which he is at present Hi charge on June 24. He will then e^joy a fortnight's holiday, and is expected to reach Hawera about the middle of July. The Hon. J. G. Coai-s (Minister for .Public Works) concluded his Taranaki visit at Stratford yesterday. ' In the morning the Minister visited the Dawson Falls house, and in the afternoon he laid the foundation stone of the new Post Office, leaving later by motor car for WaJiganui. Mr Massey was tendered a public reception at Dunedin yesterday afternoon, wh:eh was largely attended, and considerable -enthusiasm was disnlayde. The ! ; Mayoress handed to the Prime Minister a present for his wife of a gold wristlet watch, diamond studded, bearing the following inscription: "To Mrs AY L<\ ' Massey, from the citizens of Dunedin, as a token of their esteem and regard.'' —Press Assn. A well-known resident of Auckland, Mr Alexander Mennie, died at his iesi- ! deuce on Sunday. Mr Mennie, who was • m his 78th year, was born ni Turiff I j Aberdeenslnre, Scotland,- and came to Aew Zealand by the ship Blue Jacket m 1567. After spending some time in i i'lnaru, he took up his residence at | 1 names, where he engaged in business ,111 company with h.i.s brother. Air j3lennie leaves a widow and a grownI up family of four sons and four daughters. fe i At the annual conference of the Tara ' naki School Committees' Association yesterday.. Mr. S. G. Smith, M.P., who has held' the position of president since , the inception of the association ten J years ago, intimated that owing to | pressure of business he would be uni able io accept nomination a^ain Though pressed to accent office for* an- I other term, Mr. Smith adhered to his . decisien. Members generally expressed j their regret, and eulogistic references were made to the invaluable services Mr. Smith had rendered, a resolution ( being passed unanimously ulacincr this jon record. Mr. A. L. Roberts Iritz- ! ' roy) was elected nresident for the en- i suing year. At a meeting of the council of the j laraiiaki Chamber of Commerce yesterday the resignation of Mr. Walter AmI bury was received. He wrote: "Having gone out of business, I shall not be . continuing my members'hin after 30 < years' aontinuous membership." Mem- ! hers spoke appreciatively of the services i A, mbury had rendered the chamber . ami the community during the who'e s or the long period he had been associati ed with the town, and a resolution ex- , pressjve of that appreciation was passed , . unanimously. ~ \ ' Looking particularly fit and well . Dr. Cleary, Roman Catholic Bishoo of , Auckland, returned by the Manuka | mi 1 uesday, having been absent from I the Dominion for about eighteen months. The chief object of theT jour-ney-was to obtain treatment in England for a mysterious disease from win?h he had suffered for years The doctors, after investigations extending over seven months, seem to have reached the seat of the disorder The ! A-ray was employed, and within a , wee* of the commencement of treati meiit a decided improvement began. . I have been rejuvenated," said Bishop Cleary. "I feel better than for forty years past."—Press Association. The Director of the New Zealand Forest Service, Mr. A. Mclntosh Ellis, • left Auckland by the Makura on AVed- | nesday for Canada, where h e is attend- . "ig the Imperial Forestry Conference. He has taken with him a "special report , upon New Zealand forests and forestry j specimens of tree seeds, and a number ■ I ot lantern slides-illustrating forest and ' bus a scenery in the Dominion. This will he the first time that complete information on the subject of New Zealand forestry has been olaced before a conference of this character, and will he of great interest to those attending the conference. Mr. Ellis will visit Canadian and American forests before : he returns, which will be in about four months' time. In the passing away an AA Tednesday of Mrs. Creighton Hale at the age of ; - *», the medical world has lost its oddest pioneer in the art of massage. Her Institute of Massage in London was die first in England where massage was taught, and her certificate was the only one recognised by Harley Street Her book "The Art of Massage/ has been tne leading work on the subject m all parts of the world. Mrs. Crei-h-W s the'first in Erigland& to teach the blind massage, and her pubucation was brought out in the Braille type by one of her blind mioils, and is ■: now benig u^ed at St. Dunstan's In-! «titute. The late Mrs. Hale lived in Wellington for the past twelve years j She was always of a cheerful and'kind- ! , iy disposition, and will be missed by a ! i wide circle of friends. She leaves one • . son, Mr. C. Creighton Hale, of AVel- I England * daUghter reei(l«nt in ' , If any New ZealanJer has earned the nght to recognition of his services it is Mr. (now Sir) R. H. Nolan, though few j : people m this country except the ex- { soldiers can have any real id"e;i of what I he has done (comments the Lyttelton ! nmes). He was for several years » ' throughout the Great War, and after • it, in charge of the New Zealand Sol- ! ( diers Club in London, a group of houses wheie the needs of men on leave j ' were attended to. In this large estab- * lishment Mr. Nolan laboured literally with his coat off, night and day^ year alter year, and no matter affecting the interests of the soldiers was too great < or too small to secure his personal attention. We s .peak from definite know- : ledge in saving that this citizen's de- ( vocion to the needs and the welfare of ■ ] members of the New Zealand Expedi- ( aouary Force in London was untiring : tbroughout a period which tried the 1 stoutest hearts, and we think that what < no did for ''the boys" is beyond real appraisement or reward. AA'e do not c know, but we imajrine that Sir Robert's a nurse-strings were generously un- * looswl; but of hiorher value than money t y.-as his great personal libour, indioat- i "."' tr"e patriotism and genuine affection for the soldiers from this country No doubt Sir Robert No'an's hio-hp'sh J1 recompense for his magnificent work fc lies m the knowledge of dntv done, but s uncirestionablv he thoroughly deserves * U:e honour of knighthood. * c — v o