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Northern Advocate, 28 October 1932, Page 4

PERSONAL

Archdeacon Gordon Bell, of Cambridge, returned by the Eangitiki yesterday from a holiday visit to England.

Miss Jane Mander, the well-known New Zealand authoress, arrived at Auckland by the Eangitiki from England yesterday, after an absence of 20 years. Mr T. T. Bond, formerly of Auckland, who has established. a publishing business in London, returned by the llangitiki yesterday after an absence of six years in England. A popular commercial traveller who has returned to the North Auckland circuit is Mr Frank Gore, of the International Correspondence Schools. For the past eighteen months Mr Gore has been operating in Sydney. The Rev. M. E. Holmes has resigned his post as assistant curate at St. Mnry-s Anglican Church, Karori, Wellington, to take up a similar position at. Tauranga. He will spend a holiday at his home in Christchurch before- coining North,

The Rev. G. B. Withers, of Portsmouth, England, arrived by the Rangitiki yesterday on visit to the Dominion. His father, the late Dr. Robert Withers, arrived in Otago from England in 1873. Mr Withers is the guest of Arehbishop Averill.

The Rev. John Miller, of Christchurch, returned by the Rangitiki yesterday from a' visit to England. He was the New Zealand representative at the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Edinburgh and London, where he gave an address on 1 lie life and work of the Church in the Dominion.

There is still possibility of Mr W. H. Chatham, of One Tree Point, losing the use of his right hand. He was operating a mowing machine when the horses started suddenly. Mr Chatham grasped at the reins, and fell with his hand against the blades of the moving machine. The hand was cut to the bone and the sinews and arteries severed. Mr Chctham is reported to be making good progress in the Whangarei District Hospital.

A newcomer to Whangarei is Mr Jack Holmwood, of Nelson, who has won considerable distinction in various athletic sports. He captained the Nelson-Marlborcugh-Golden Bay combined Rugby teams which opposed the Englishmen and New South Welshmen. He is a prominent amateur athlete, and played for AVairarapa against the Australian cricket team, of which Arthur Mailoy was a member. There is a possibility of Mr Holmwood settling in this district.

A number of Indies with toy dogs intended for exhibition knocked anxiously for admission to the Drill Hall, where the Dog Show is being held this afternoon. Finally a committeeman opened the portal. “Dog loose,” he muttered in explanation. Admission to the building revealed that a big Alsatian had obtained his freedom and was dashing about from kennel to kennel inspecting his more confined companions. Many men joined in the capture efforts, but persuasion and pninuit were equally unsuccessful until a noose was thrown.

There was a pleasing interlude at the Ambulance dinner last night when the chairman, Dr. S. IT. Ward, asked Mr and Mrs Handley Clift* to step forward. Punctuating his remarks with the best of good humour, Dr. Ward said that Mrs Clift had been a model sweetheart, as was proved by thfc fact that Handley had hardly missed ii practice during their engagement. In this respect Mrs Clift had set a fine example to the other Indies present (Laughter). Regular attendance at practice was an essential of good brigade work. As a token of the esteem in which they wore held by the brigade, the Superintendent asked Mr and Mrs Cliff to accept a fine coffee sot. Mr Cliff replied suitably on bohalf of himself and his wife. i