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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16542, 9 January 1928, Page 5

PERSONAL

Sir Apirana Ngata was a visitor t.o Gisborne during the week-end. Mr. Lloyd George and family have arrived at Rio tie Janeiro.—British Official Wireless. The Afghan Royalties were enthusiastically welcomed on arrival at Naples; They have left for Rome, —N.Z. and A.P.A., and Sun. The , engagement is announced of Bishop Cherrington, Bishop of Waikato, to Miss E. D. P. Price, of Auckland. The marriage will take place quietly in the near future.—Special. Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, who left London in November for an official visit to India, will leave Bombay on January 28 on his return home, —British Official Wireless. The Rev. A. A. Barham arrived in Gisborne on Saturday evening to take up his duties as curate for Holy Trinity parish. Ilis last duties were at the Doncaster parish church, under Archdeacon Sandford. The successes of two Gisborneites in the New Zealand University 8.A.,.ete., examinations are announced. ' Mr. C. R. Lowndes, of Auckland University College, secured a first B.A. pass in English, stage 1. Mr. J. D. Kinder, Victoria University College, passed in English, stage 1, in .the LL.B. examination. It- tvas announced on 'Friday that owing to altered steamer arrangements, Mr. A. W. Hill, F.R.S., curator of Kew Gardens, would land' at Auckland 1 instead of Wellington as originally planned. The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research to-day received a cable from ■Mr. Hill stating that he would bo leaving , Melbourne for Wellington by the Manuka on January 18.-—P. A. Miss Kiri Hoi, eldest daughter of Mr. Kami ora. Hoi, of Gisborne, was married to Mr. Ifawea Swan, of Manytake, at, Tuparoa recently by the Rev. Pine Tamahori (writes our Tikitiki correspondent,). The wedding was a quiet one. Mrs. Swan, as both a tennis and a hockey player, is an acquisition for the coast. Mr> and Mrs. Swan have taken up their home here at Tikitiki,