PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17947, 26 November 1932, Page 3

PERSONAL

'Mr and Mrs E. J. Bridgcman have returned from a holiday visit spent in Christ chu roll.

Mr D. W. Coleman, M.P., is expected to return to Gisborne this Aveek-end, and will be in attendance at tire Mayor's office on Monday.

Mr. A. Gray, headmaster of the Hawera High School, whose retirement is announced, has . been in the teaching profession for 45 years, 35 ol which have been spent in the Taranaki province.

Mr. Adrian Hayter, second son of Dir. and Mrs, Graham Hayter, D’Urville Island, has been given the Governor’s nomination for Sandhurst Military College.

Mr. H. G. Singer, of Knox College, Dunedin, arrived in Gisborne yesterday to spend his, summer vacation with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Singer, “Bridgewater.”

Guests at the Masonic Hotel this week end include Mf I*. Graham (Wanganui); Mr. 11. Reaper (Wellington) ; Messrs. C. Cuthbert and J. Miller (Dunedin); Mr. L. A. Bird (Palmerston North) ; and Mr. R.-G. Hawkins (Auckland). The bishop-elect of Melanesia, the ■Rev W. H. Baddeley, vicar of Southbank, Yorkshire, is due to reach Auckland by the Aorangi on Sunday. The consecration of the bisliop-olect will take place at St. Mary s Cathedral, Auckland, on Wednesday, November 30.

Mr. H. Winston Rhodes, M.A., who has been tutor in English at Ormond and Newman College for several years, has been appointed to the senior lectureship in English at Canterbury University College, Christchurch, in the University of New Zealand, and will take up his new duties early next year, states advices from Melbourne.

Mr..and Mrs. John H. Ross, Wellington, recently arrived in England from South America, where they have been engaged in missionary work for 24 years, previously in Paraguay, but ior the last eight years in Buenos Aires, lhey aro now on their way to New Zealand on a holiday visit, taking with them two ot their children. They expect to leave England at the beginning of Novemher, via Suez, and .they hope to reach New Zealand about Christmas time. Miilf, in the Dominion they will stay with 'their relatives in Wellington and Hast ings.