PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1709, 27 December 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Dr Whitaker is representing Palmerston ‘l. ; North at the New Zealand croquet cham- ' V pionship gathering at Christchurch. : :. 1 : V. Tho Prime Minister arid Mrs and . Miss Massey will bo passengers for Auckland this V' afternoon from Wellington by the express’. ‘ train. , T.. ; Mr J. A. Nash, M.P., has keen laid up during the Christinas holidays with a sharp attack of illness, but was able to get about again to-day. A private letter received in Wellington ... announces the death in Melbourne of. 'MV’’' A W; Tait, a brother of Mr John H. Tait, of " tho theatrical firm of J. and N. Tait, | Mr and Mrs John Oobbe, of Feilding, i were presented with*a handsome marble clock by the employees of the firm of which Mr Cobbo is the head on tho eve of his re- , . tiroment from business. s Mr Samuel Mackay, of Wellington, died on Wednesday from pneumonia. The ., ceased gentleman had carried on business, as a bookseller in Lambton Quay for many ', • years and was. very widely known and re;..,, spected. . V; A quiet wedding was celebrated in Dannevirke on Tuesday when Mrs R. H. Robertshaw was married to Mr G. Goglnl}, manager, of the' Union Bark of Austria " lasia. Mr. find Mrs Cvgliill have left, for Australia.- • i .<i Mrs James Pawson, wife of the .proprie-, . tor of the Phoenix Hotel F.epanui, Christ- - church, died suddenly on Tuesday last/. The ■'•••. late Mrs Pawson was well-known in Pah' '■ : morston North, her hushind/ being- at one: v *, time licensee of the Masonic Hotel- ; -v •; • - A well-known resident of Nelson, .MrC. ,«<•; 11. Harley ; proprietor of the Raglan eric Brewery-, died last Monday. He was a son , ;r„ ; of the late Mr Joseph A- Harlc.y f ,an ex-,.. Mayor of Nelson, and leaves a widow, and, several children, one of whom,.is now bn his way home from France. , /V According to the Times, London, Mr Pember Reevos, formerly High Commis- . sionor for New Zealand, has keen made a.' ‘2 Knight Commander of the Order of George*'. 1., by’the King of Greece.' Mr RbevM, ' ; who is an authority on Greek national ques-- ' tions, has been chairman of tho -Angled-nr- . Hellenio League in London. .-j '.“«■* -