PERSONAL ITEMS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 5 April 1926, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr A. Y. Allport. of Stoke, who tin derwent an operation last week, is mak ing satisfactory progress.

Mr Friend, manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Napier, but formerly of Nelson, arrived here yesterday on a siicui holiday visU.

The Bev. Father J. Bong, of GreyUioutii, who has been on an extended loin of Creat Britain and the Continent for the past nine months, has returned to the West Coas't.

Mr W. 11. Woodward. Chief Judge of Samoa, and Mrs Woodward are •visitors to New Zealand. They intend spending about four months in Hie Dominion, ami are at present in the South.

Mr W. H. Russell, of the Hansard stitff. will retire on superannuation on .Ituv 30 after 45 years service. He ioincrt the Government service as a catl'-t iti the Kdttcation Department in 1381. and was appointed to the Hansard ,taff in 1093. |

Captaini Mi-Arthur, ' of Wellington. who (Mine to Nelson to take part in the bowls tournament has been recalled linuie owing to a motor accident to his sin. The extent il' his injuries are nut known: but it is reported that the other occupant of ihe tat was killed. Ocreral sympathy will he extended to ihe popular Wellington Club skip.

Mr ,7. Reek, now in char;;.' of the ,-p, cial schools branch of the Depart men .-.' Education, becomes superinten dent of the new child welfare branch which has been created by the Ait of last s-essiotl. and which has grown up i.ut of the sj)ecial schools brunch. Mr J I!. McClure. now assistant udicer-in dinisc 'it the special schools branch, beto.ties deputy-suporiritondefi t of the .hil.l welfare branch, an from April lr-t

Tne death occurred at Rlack's I'oinl if Mis Margaret Ann Wearne. widow nf the late Mr .limes Wearne. IV (•eased had been in bad health for some time. The hue Mis Wean e was it native of Reiideen. near St. dust. Cornwall, England, and was seventy years of ege. She nirived at Lyttelton in 1875. reaching Reefton forty nine years ago. Site settled at Rlack's Point, where she has sine" resided- Her hushaul predeceased her many years ago. She leaves a family or six daughters. two ..ons. twenty-lhree grandchildren. aii.\ four great-grandchildren..