PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 6, 6 December 1930, Page 8

PERSONAL

On Monday Their Excellencies the Governor-General and Lady Bledisloe will leave Wellington to pay official visits to Featherston and Masterton. Hon. E. A. Ransom, acting Prune Minister, is to resume his official duties on Tuesday, having recovered from his indisposition. A London cable states that Mr and Mrs Forbes and Sir Thomas and Lady Sidey will join a party which is going to France on December 6. Sergeant-Major Harvey, who was for some months an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital, has been able to resume his duties.

A London cablegram states that Lord Stonehaven, until recently Gov-ernor-General of Australia, was received by the Prince of Wales. The friends of Mr W. Russell, College Street, will learn with regret that he is at present seriously ill in the Public Hospital with pneumonia. Mr G. P. Cribb, of Puriri, near Thames, who died this week in his 92nd year, was born at Cowes, Isle ot Wight, and came to New Zealand in 1865. He took part in the gold rush at Thames in 1867, and later took up farming. Rev. J. J. North, D.D., Principal of the New Zealand Baptist College, arrived in Palmerston North t-o-day. Mr North is the guest of Mr and Mrs G. H. Elliot, of Melford Road. He will preach morning and evening tomorrow in the local Baptist Church. Mr R. G. Hatton, director of the Imperial Bureau of Fruit Productions and of the East Mailing Research Station, returned to Wellington after a visit to Christchurch, with Dr. G. H. Cunningham, mycologist at the Plant Research Station, Palmerston North, yesterday morning. Mr Hatton left for Sydney in the afternoon.

The death occurred last evening of Mr Antonio Bogmuda, a well-known Wellington citizen. Ail his life Mr Bogmuda had been closely associated with sporting bodies. He was a life member of the Athletic Football Club, a life member of the Wellington Working Men’s Club, and at one time was vice-president of the Wellington Rowing Association. The death occurred at Pukekohe this week of Mr Robert Hope, aged 78 years. Mr Hope, who was well known in railway circles throughout the Wellington and Wairarapa districts, was bom at Gretna Green, and entered the service of a Scottish railway company at 13 years of age. When 26 years old he came to Neiv Zealand on the ship Rakaia, and joined .the New Zealand Government Railways. He was stationed at Cross Creek, on the Rimutaka incline, and remained there until his retirement 16 years ago. Mrs Hope died about 16 years ago, and Mr Hope went ’to live with his daughter at Auckland, moving with her to Pukekohe 12 years ago. He is survived by six sons, Messrs Gavin, of Nelson; John, of Pahiatua; Robert, of Christchurch; George, of Wellington; William, of Masterton; Harry, of Feilding; and one daughter, Mrs E. J. Tate, of Pukekohe.