PERSONAL

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6884, 13 April 1929, Page 8

PERSONAL

Misses Betty Nuthall and Elizabeth Ryan will play together in the women’s doubles at Wimbledon, states & London message. Mr J. D. Campbell, a member of the Invercargill borough council, has consented to nomination for the Mayoralty and will oppose the sitting Mayor, Mr John Miller. Mr. C. Taylor, of Lyndhnrst street, Palmerston North, announced yesterday that he would be a candidate for the Borough Council at the municipal elections on May I. Rev.v B. Stawards, of the Berhampore Baptist Church, Wellington, after a four years’ pastorate, has tendered his resignation, having accepted a call to an Auckland church. The Hon. E. A. Kansom, Minister of Public Works, arrived in. Palmerston North last evening after a tour of inspection of the Taranaki district. He leaves to-day for Wellington. A Gazette formally announces that the Governor-General has accepted tho resignation of Mr. Justice Frazer of his office as a Judge of the Supreme Court, to which he was temporarily appointed in December last.

Admiral Lord Wester Wemyss, who commanded the British squadron at tho Gallipoli landing, and represented the Navy when the Allies received the Germans requesting an armistice, has re tired. Admiral Wemyss has reached the age limit. At a gathering of railway officers in the chief mechanical engineer’s room in Wellington Mr. G. F. Lynde made a presentation on behalf of the railway officers at headquarters to Mr. J. F. Mackley, engineer of railways in the North Island, who has just retired from the department after 40 years’ service, Mr H. L. McGregor, accountant at the Bank of New South Wales, Palmerston North for tho past four years, has been appointed manager of the bank’s branch at Kawa Kawa, Bay of Islands. Mr McGregor will be succeeded by Mr W. A. S. Wearne, who has for the past few years bean attached to the Wellington branch. The death took place on Tuesday of Mrs. Clara Jane Quigley, relict of the late Mr. W. J. Quigley, of Gisborne, and a resident of Dannevirke for the past, seven years. Bom at Droxford. Hants, England, in 1858. tho deceased lady came out to New Zealand in 1878 with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Coles. Deceased had been in invalid for the past 18 months and her death was not unexpected. She loaves a grown-up family, Mr. H. S. M. Quigley, Mrs. W. B. Combs and Miss F. Quigley, of Dannevirke; Mossrs. W. E. Quigley (Auckland*. J. D. Quigley (Gisborne), F. M. Quigley (Hastings), M. S. Quigley (Oanui, Taranaki), Mesdames G. Barker (Wellington), A. W. H. King (Napier), and D. L. Crooks (T 5. Tree Point).