PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2143, 7 June 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS

Miss Lily Anderson left Feilding on Monday to take up duties in the Palmerston North Hospital. The Rev. R. G. Finch, 8.D., formerly vicar of Winthorpe, in Lincolnshire, has been appointed vicar of Featnerston. Mr. W. R. Blow. N.Z. Government Agent in Australia. -who has been visiting- the South Island, returns to Wellington to-day. The death occurred at an early hour yesterday morning of Mr. W. M. Ashton, a well-known resident of Gcnville, Wanganui. A Sydney cable message reports the death of Mr Frank Watters, a member of the 1890 Australian cricket team that visited England. Mr. F. E. Whitlock, who has been relieving at the Balclutha branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has been appointed manager of the branch at Outram. The Hon. G. J. Anderson, Minister of Mines and Labour, passed through Palmerston North yesterday for New Plymoutn, where he opens the Taranaki Winter Show. Mr L. H. Collinson, of Palmerston North, is taking a few weeks' holiday. After the lapse of about ten days, he found he had sustained a fracture of two ribs in the hunting field. Mr. E. Spencer Macky. Dean of the Faculty of the California School of. Fine Arts, San Francisco, is at present on a visit to relatives in Auckland after an absence of over fifteen year. Mr. J. H. Berry, who has resigned his seat on the Akitio County Council, is one of the first settlers of Pongaroa. In the pre-war days he was county engineer for a period of five' years. The Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) will arrive in Palmerston North from Wanganui this evening, and on Thursday will adjudicate in a case to be heard at the Palmerston North Courthouse.

Monday last was the sixth anniversary of the death of England's then greatest soldier, Karl Kitchener, who was lost in the Hampshire with most of the ship's company off the north coast of Scotland on June sth, 1916.

Messrs B. J. Ja:obs (Palmerston North). J. J. Fox (Feilding) and A. H. Herbert (Eketahana) will be delegates to the Dominion conference of the Returned Soldiers' Association, which opens in Wellington to-mor-row.

Mr. W. Berry, who has been for many years a member of the Hansard staff, has sent in his resignation. This will moan thnt two vacancies on the staff will have to be filled shortly, as Mr. H. M. Gore has already decided to retire.

Mr Guy Cooper, the Kltham agent and senior auctioneer of the Hawera branch of the New Zealand Koan and Mercantile Agency Company, died at Hastings on Saturday evening. Mr Cooper, who was highly respected, was a most popular man, and was well known throughout Taranaki.

A Nelson telegram states that Mr. F. V. Knapp, headmaster of the Girls' Central School, who has retired on superannuation, was the recipient of a presentation by the schol-

ars and teachers. Mr. Knapp will continue his studies in ancient Maori in the middle district. He has a fine collection of curios.

An old resident of Auckland, Mr. Toledo Field, died recently at the residence of his son-in-law at Te Pap-

apa, aped 85 years. Deceased was a son of the late Robert Field, and his surviving brother is Mr. William Field, of the New Zealand Insurance Company. Auckland. The latter has a copy of his brother's indentures as apprentice to the printing - trade in the office of Messrs. John Williamson and William Chishohn Wilson in' 1850. The Hawke's Bay "Tribune" of Monday says:—A gathering of the friends of Mr. H. J. King; was held in the Heretaunga Club. Hastings, on Saturday night, to bid him. farewell on the eve of his departure for Pal-rnoi-'f-m North. Mr. Gilbert McKay president of the club, who occupied the chair, presented the guest of the evening with a case of razors as a small expression of the esteem in which he is held by his fellow members, and Mr. King having replied in a short speech, the remainder of a very enjoyable couple of hours was spent in toast, sonjr, and story. Much regret was felt in Elsthorpe district (Hawke's Ray) recently when it became known that Mrs Eagle, wife of Mr Henry Eagle, late of Wnirarapa, had died at the Waipukuran hospital. The deceased wan apparently in her usual good health on the pervious Monday morning-, but by afternoon a serious illness had developed. Dr. Maddison, Waipawa, was called in, and she ordered the patient's removal to the hospital, but she passed away on Wednesday afternoon. The doceased, with her husband and family, were well known in the Wairarapa district, having lived there for many years. For these days a sweater coat Is welcomed by every man and these prices will be welcomed, too,, representing as they do such superb values. Pesco weave in pure wool for 21/ were 42/. light and dark grey, light and dark lovatt, white, fawn; Coilinson and "Ltd.; Music each afternoon in tearooms*