PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17230, 9 April 1930, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr. Wallm S. Snotlgrass, of Nelson, is paying a holiday visit to Gisborne. diss M. Barker, who has been visiting friends in vvniron, has returned io Gisborne. Mr. Edgar Wallace, the famous novelist, has been adopted as Liberal candidate for the Aylesbury division of Buckinghamshire. The Lev. George Frost and Mrs. Frost, who have been staying with Mr. and Mrs. W. .1. Bellow, of Watpawa, left yesterday by ear for Auckland. The Lincoln College board has received from Mr. Job Osborne, a pioneer farmer of Ellesmere, a- gift of £SOO to found a scholarship tenablo al Lincoln College. Sir Dudley de Chair, Governor of New South Wales, has completed his term of office, and will spend a holiday on a Queensland sheep station before returning to England. Captain W. F. Bark, an air pilot with war experience, at present employed by New Zealand Airways at Dunedin, has been appointed pilot-instructor to the Vvairarapa Aero Club. Ai. its meeting last evening the Borough Council received advice to the effect that through indisposition Air. F. C. Chichester would be unable to accept tbo council's invitation to visit (lisborno on April 10. Mr. Chichester, however, hoped to be able to visit the town at some later date. It is announced that Mr. Brennan, the Federal Attorney-General, will represent Australia, at. flit! League of Nations Conference tills year, and that Mr. Scullin and Mr. Moloney, the latter Minister for Markets, will be representatives at the Imperial Conference'. Mr. A. 1). Bruce, who last, .August completed 63 years in the service of the New Zealand Herald, and is this month retiring from the position of .sporting editor, was yesterday made a life member of the Auckland Racing Club. Air. Bruce will continue to write as "Phaeton," and next September will complete 50 years' writing under that pen-name. The. Leader of the Opposition, the jRt. Hon. J. G. Coates, and Mrs. Coates 'arrived at Auckland from Hastings this morning. Mr. Coates will be in Auckland until to-morrow, when he will leave for North Auckland. Air. Coates will return to Auckland on Saturday, and will perform the official opening of the drive giving access to Owairaka Park. Mount Albert, that afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Ben. Taylor,of Gisborne. propose to leave next- month on a; tour of the woi hi, travelling \ia the Pacific' route In Vancouver, thence across Canada and part of the Coiled States io New York, whence they will sail by the Majestic for Southampton. A motor tour of portions of the did Country which they were unable to see on their last lour ' abroad will occupy several weeks, and some of Ihe Continental resorts are included in their itinerary, iwhich will close with the voyage via the Suez Canal route and Australia back to New Zealand. They will be absent from the Domhiio.i for several months.