PERSONAL ITEMS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 11 April 1934, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The death has occurred at Christchurch of Mr Henry Hyland, formerly of Motueka and Ngatimoti. hut wellknown throughout the Nelson district. He retired about six years ago and went to live in Christchurch. Mr T. Hyland, of Takaka, and Mr D. Hyland, of Christchurch, are brothers, and Mrs C. Nash and Mrs H. Jones are sisters.

After the ordinary business of the meeting of parishioners at St. Barnabas s schoolroom, Feiidalton, Christchurch, 0 n .Ajond;;j evening, Mr R. S. I). Harman looik the chair, and in a sliort speech on behalf of the. parish wished a happy voyage to the Rev. F. B. Redgrave, Mrs Redgrave and Miss Redgrave, who are leaving on a visit to England to place before the British public the needs of the diocese of Polynesia. Mr Redgrave has been commissary of the Bishop of Polynesia in New Zealand for the last 10 years. This business will occuply him for three months. Mr Harman thanked Mr Redgrave for his work. Mr Redgrave then replied, thanking the wardens and the people of the parish for the reception. He hoped, that the happy relations that he had enjoyed would be extended, as lie knew they would be, to his locum tenens, the Rev. Otho Fitz Gerald. A few days previously a collection had been made by the ladies of the parish, and a substantial cheque had been handed to Mrs Redgrave by Mrs W Rolleston, with the suggestion that the money should be spent in England- as Mrs Redgrave saw fit. Mr Harman thanked the ladies for their spontaneous action.

Miss Claudia Slowey of St. Vincent street was successful in completing her Associate Elocution of the Trinity College London. Miss Slowey has in the one year, obtained the honour of Associate of th • College in two 'branches, violin and elocution. Lieutenant Ernest Webb, conductor if the Queen Alexandra. Band (Wanganui), and champion soprano cornet player of the Dominion, played for the Palmerston North Garrison Band at the recent championship contest at Wellington, when the band succeeded in winning the New Zealand championship. On Sunday right the Palmerston band ' isited Wanganui and during a concert at the Regent Theatre Mr J. A. Nash, M.P., presenled Lieutenant Webb with an inscribed silver tray in token of the band’s appreciation of his services. Colonel Whyte, chairman of the Palmerston North hand, also paid tribute to Mr Webb’s ability and the value it bad been to ihe band at the contest Replying, Lieutenant Webb said that, he had been very pleased to assist a sister band.

Mrs Stuart McLean, Avonside, Christchurch, who has been touring the West Coast for the past three weeks is now staying with relatives in Nelson. From seven applicants, Air L. Francis, conductor of the Westport Municipal Band, lias been appointed conductor of the Greymouth Municipal Band, at a salary ‘of £IOO per year. Three of the applications were, from Greymouth, one from the North Island, two from Christchurch, and the other from Westport. The Mayor of Nelson (Mr W. J. Molfatt) was to day re-elected chairman of the Nelson Fire Board.

An interesting connecting link with fire-fighting work in Nelson over many years which are past with those, which are to come under the new system of a Fire Board, is Mr Albert Dee, Government representative on the board, and formerly superintendent of the Nelson Volunteer Fire Brigade, with a lifetime's work for the community to his credit.