PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 109, 8 April 1926, Page 7

PERSONAL

Mr G. R. anti Mrs E. Canavan have just returned from a motor tour of Taranaki.

A message from Tokio annom.ces the death of President Nobushigo Hozmni, of the Privy Council of Japan.

Mr and Mrs J. Hocking, of College street, have returned to Palmerston North after an enjoyable holiday spent at Honolulu. They were accompanied by Miss South.

Mrs W. Cox, of Westport, is visiting her s:ster, Mrs J. Hunter, of Joseph street. She is cn route to her home at Westport after spending some timo with her daughter in Wanganui. Mr and Mrs J. F. McKelvie, of Carnarvon, accompanied by Miss McKelvie, Miss Scott, of Oroua Downs, and two Wanganui residents, purpose leaving to-morrow on a motoring tour of the South Island. After crossing to Picton they will motor to Ivaikoura, Christchurch, and Dunedin. One of the most interesting figures in Taupo has been removed by the death of Mr Joseph liickit. He had lived in Taupo for over 50 years. In 1879 he married Taima To Ngahue, a Maori lady of high rank in the Tohurangi tribe, who went through tho Tarawera eruption. The deceased is survived by the widow, four sons and six daughters and 28 grand-children.

Mr M. Gohlsbury, for the past four years first assistant on the staff of tho Marton District High School, has been appointed headmaster of Mangorei School, near New Plymouth. He has taken active interest in other-than scholastic duties, being secretary of the Ilangitikei Schools’' Sports Association and the Marton branch of the New Zealand Alliance, leader of the Methodist Jlible class and representative at tho Methodist district meeting. A Press Association message from Auckland states that the eightieth birthday of Sir Edwin Mitchelson, who is a native of Auckland, was celebrated yesterday by a representative gathering of citizens, over which Sir {Tames Gunson presided. Spceche.Texprcssing appreciation of Sir Edwin Mitchelson’s long record of public services wero made by the chairman and others. Tho guest made a happy reply. Apology foi\unavoidable absence was received from the Prime Minister (Right Hon. J. G. Coates).