PERSONAL

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6699, 28 August 1928, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr. and Mrs. Percy McHardy of Hawke’s Bay, spent the week-end in Palmerston North. A telegram frob Auckland states that Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair, Governor of New South Wales, who has been reappointed until 1930, is a through passenger by the Niagara for Vancouver and England on furlough. The speaker at the Citizens’ Lunch Club to-day is Miss Isabel McCorkindalc, an educationist of world wido travel—" Ancient Custom and Modern Science’’ is her subject. The chairman is Mr. A. Hopwood. At last evening’s meeting of the executive of , the Manawatu Ladies’ Hockey Association votes of sympathy in recent bereavements were accorded Mr J. H. McDowell, secretary of the Association, and Miss Myra Richardson, of the Ohakea Club. On Sunday night the secretary of the Palmerston North oKtary Club was given a fitting farewell by fellow Eotarians, when leaving by.the express for Auckland en route for Tokio to attend the international Rotary Conference. Messrs W. T. Penny, D. Collins (Palmerston North), E. E. Mabin and H. Y. Lethbridge (Turakina) leave by the Limited for Wellington this morning on business connected with the Royal Show to be held in Palmerston North this year. ■I, • : The Canterbury College Board yesterday decided, to confer the title bf Professor Emeritus pn Professor A.' W. Biekerton foi? thirty years (1873-1003) a professor in the College, i Professor Biekerton is now 87 years of ago and resides in England. : —P.A. ; Visitors welcomed at yesterday’s meeting of the Palmerston North Rotary Club were Messrs. J., Logie and A. S. Horsley (Auckland), P. Busby (London), H. Gollinson (Palmerston North, V and L. F. de Berry, formerly headmaster of the Central school, Palmerston North and now principal of the Normal School, Dunedin. , A telegram from Gisborne states that tho death has pceurred'of Mrs. Martha Tntchen, one of the pioneer settlers of Poverty' Bay, aged 95 dears. She sustained a broken hip a fortnight ago and; did- not recover from the shock. She arrived in Now Zealand 70 years ago in tho ship Evening .Etar and went to Gisborne jn ’ 1868 just after the massacre. H. ' "V. ' };