PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17918, 24 October 1932, Page 5

PERSONAL

' Mr. W. Kinder, of Oamaru, is visiting Gisborne. Mr. W. J. Whinray, supervisor of mails at Dunedin, and a former resident of Gisborne, is at present spending' a few days with relatives here. Mr. D. W. Coleman, M.P., arrived in Gisborne yesterday on it brief visit to his, constituency, and will return to Wellington on Wednesday. Messrs. James Allen and Thomas Valantine Porter have been appointed trustees of the Ormond public cemetery in place of Messrs. Alfred William James and Alexander Rankin, resigned. Mr. C. E. MncCormick, judge of the Native Land Court, who recently entered a private hospital iu Auckland, is making a good recovery and expects to resume his duties in about a week. The ancient legal office of Common Sergeant of London, held for many years by Sir Henry Dickens, a son of the great 1 novelist, who has just resigned, is to he fillejd by Judge Holmann Gregory, whose appointment is now approved.—British Official Wireless. | It was reported to-day that the con- ' dition of Mrs. Earnshaw, who was injured in the crossing accident at Waihirere oil Friday, was still serious, but that there was a slight improvement in , the condition of her 10-year-okl daughter j Dr. Derek Denny Brown, who is an old boy of the New Plymouth Boys’ High School, has commenced practice in Harley street, London, as a specialist in brain diseases. Until recently Dr. Dennv Brown was a consulting 1 neurologist at Guy’s Hospital, London, 1 and registrar at the National Hospital for Brain and Nerve Diseases, Queen’s Square. Colonel 11. A. Brinsmead, Controllei ] of Civil Aviation in Australia, who was I seriously injured in an airplane crash ! last year, is slowly recovering his health lin .Sydney, where lie 'is, undergoing a ' re-educatioiud process under the care ol a nurse specially trained in these, methods. This treatment is necessary following-a, critical operation involving a transfer of nerves, as the new nerves lmye to be trained -,o (in the work of the old ones. It is hoped, that the methods ol voice production adopted will fully restore his normal speech. His close vision is still imperfect, but is being adjusted by tlio use of special lenses. He.can, however, see distant objects clearly, and the process of physical reeducation is being greatly assisted by the keen interest Colonel Brinsmead continues to take in everyday affairs.