PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17229, 8 April 1930, Page 11

PERSONAL

Mr. J. •Seahrook, of Auckland, who luis been attending the Hawke’s Bay Aero Pageant, passed through Gisborne on route to Auckland to-day. Rev. J. Laughton, of the Presbyterian Maori Mission, who for a number of years lias been associated with the Hawke's Ray Presbytery, is in future to lie a member of the Vvaikato Presbytery.

Fir Apirana Ngata. Minister of Native Affairs, is visiting the Rotorua distr.ot. From Rotorua the Minister and his party will go to Tamnarumii. Sir Apirana Ngata will officially open the new Maori hostel at Tuaka.il.

Senior-Sergeant Dempsey, accompanied by Ids wife and little daughter, 101 l Hastings by train on Saturday for Wellington, where the senior-sergeant assumes duly, on promotion, a! the Central police station. Archbishop Redwood, the oldest living Roman Catholic prelate in the world, celebrates Ids 91st birthday at V\ ellington to-day. lie will not mark the event with any special function, although be will preside at a private dinner to eeleInate Ihe occasion.

A. report from Dayton (Ohio) slates that -Sir Frank Nelson, Conservative member fur Stroud, Gloucester, in the English House of Commons, announced to-day that he is resigning from Parliament' to become general manager of (lie British branch of a Dnvton cash register concern. —A. and N.Z.C.