PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 163, 11 June 1926, Page 7

PERSONAL

. -^ r , ,^ >6n^ r< >k 0 Callaghan is spendinS, the Auckland ’Varsity vacation wjtk ilia relatives in Palmerston North. A cable message from Honolulu announces the death- of Judge Sanford Hole, who was President of Hawaii 'at the tune of its annexation by the United States, aged 82 years. A- motion of sympathy with Mrs L. A. Abraham in her recent accident was carried at the annual meeting last evening of the Palmerston North branch of tne Plunket Society. The Minister of Health, Hon. J. A. Young, who was in town yesterday afternoon conferring with the Hospital Board, left in the evening on his return to Wellington.

The death is announced from london of Sir William Corry, director of the Cunard and Commonwealth and Dominion Lines, aged 67 years. The flags o nthe Wellington offices of the various shipping companies were flown at half-mast yesterday as a mark of respect.

A motion of condolence with Mrs H. Aitchison in the death of her husband was passed at last night’s annual meeting of the Palmerston North branch of the Plunket Society, and sympathy was also extended to Mr It. L. C. Aitchison. Splendid tributes were paid to Mrs Aitchison for the way in which she had discharged her duties as secretary of the branch, and, on the motion of Lt.-Colonel Whyte, it was decided to make her an honorary life member. Among those who paid a compliment to the work of the secretary was Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Health, who referred in very eulogistio terms to Mrs Aitchison’s energy and enthusiasm.