PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16338, 12 May 1927, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr. Nat Kettle, of Napier, underwent an operation in a private hospital in Napier on Saturday. He is now progressing very favorably.

Mr. Russell Sinclair, chairman of the New South Wales division of the Bed Cross Society, has been granted six months' leave of absence and will tour New Zealand.

.Professor T. A. Hunter left Wellington for Sydney by the Ulimaroa to attend the annual meeting of the Australasian Association of Psychology and Philosophy, of which he is president.

The Hon. K. S. Williams, Minister of Public Works, is making a tour of inspection of portions of the back country of the Waitotara and Patea counties, going into the matter of rents from de teriorated lands.

Lady Parr, wife of the High Commissioner for New Zealand, returned to London last week from the South of France, where she had been convalescing after severe pneumonic influenza contracted in Paris about four months previously.

Mr L. ,1. Wild, M.A., B.Sc, F.G.S., director of the Feilding Agricultural High School, has been appointed to deliver the Banks lecture at the forthcoming evening conference of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture at Wellington.

The Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. JL F. Bollard, together with Mrs. Bollard and his secretary, Mr. E. N. G. Poulton, the Mayor, Mr. O. E. Armstrong, and the,chairman of the Cook County Council, Mr. C'has.,Matthews, attended the jubilee sports meeting at the Oval yesterday afternoon-and evinced the keenest interest in the events.

Mr. E. W. Carter, Sub-Collector of Customs at Auckland, after serving 35 years in the Customs Department, has retired owing to ill-health. Mr. Carter entered the head office at- Wellington in 1892 and at the end of the following year was transferred to the Custom House, where he was employed as warehousekeeper and shipping clerk. In 1896 he went to Ihvercargill as clerk and cashier, and in 1901 became land-ing-waiter in Dunedin, in 1913 he hecame inspector, and in 1925 sub-col-lector.

The Hon. R. P. and Airs. Bollard, with Mr. E. N". G. Poulton, private secretary to the Minister, will leave on their return to Wellington to-mor-row morning. The south road, by which they travelled to Gisborne, made an excellent impression on the jubilee visitors, and Mr. Bollard, whose last visit here was mode, when a portion of the Tnrewn hill was still unmetalled, commented in warm tonus on the wonderful improvement made iii the communications of Gisborne.

Mr. R, A. Ken nor, who for seven years has been general secretary of the Christcl ureh V.M.C.A., is wilhdra.wiiig from the position to accept an appointment to the literary stall.' of the Auckland .star,, with which he was associated in former years. The directors of the Association accepted the resignation with great regret, and expressed to Mr. Kenner their realisation that under his leadership the work of the, Y.M.C.A. had maintained a high degree of effectiveness. The board has appointed as general secretary Mr. A. .1. McEldowiiey, former membership secretary in tfhristchirrch, who for the past four years has done successful work as general secretary of the Wanganui Association.

■ Probably never before have the decorous proceedings of an Auckland institute meeting been closed with three cheers and that- convivial "For tie's a Jolly Good Fellow." If was, however, Dr. I'. H, Buck's last night with the public, he has sol often entertained at these gatherings, and, after passing a resolution congratulating him on his appointment to the Bishop Museum, in Honolulu, it seemed natural to hurst into song. The institute has never had a. more popular lecturer, as the president of the institute, Mr. H. P. Vaile, remarked, on Tuesday evening, there was always ai "full house" when Dr. Buck was announced to- speak on bis favorite topic of Polynesian research. Dr. Buck thanked the audience gratefully for the cordial manner in which they bad received his attempts to inteiost them in matters affecting the .Maori. There was an immense amount of work to he done in the Pacific in going scientifically into the origins of the people, and they could not- blame him if lie accepted the offer to go to the Bishop Museum in Honolulu to undertake Polynesian research for live vears.