PERSONAL NOTES.

Inangahua Times, 16 December 1932, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

A London Press statee that Mr Harold Gillies is confired to hie bed with severe phlibitis of the foot. Mrs Merfitt, who haa been etaying with her parents Mr and Mrs J. Williams, is returning to Christchurch on Saturday morning. Mr Jorgenson of ihe National Bink if New Zealand, Reefton, who spent 1 his annual leave in the North Island, leturned to Reefton last evening, and took up his duties to-day-Mrs C. Fraser, who underwent an operation at the Reefton Hospital a few weeks ago has so far recovered that it is expected she will be able to return home to-morrow.

Matron Gibson, of the Reef ion Hospital, has made a good recovery after her recent operation, and la able to get about again. She b ipes to be nb'e o resume her duties in a week or two.

President Hoover has appointed Colonial Nathan William MacChen--ney, Illinois, to he the United States Minister *to Canada, succeeding Hanford MacNider, resigned. MacChesney, who is 54 years of age, was formerly a Chicago judge — Washington press cable.