PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17948, 28 November 1932, Page 3

PERSONAL

Air. J. W. Leslie, Gisborne, was a recent caller at the High Commissi,on- . er’s office, London. ! The Bishop of Waiapu, the Ef. Rev. H. W. Williams, left .Gisborne this morning for Auckland, where ho will attend the consecration of the new 1 Bishop of Melanesia.

j The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Captain A. Eden, will take charge of the British delegation at Geneva during the absence of Sir John Simon, who is returning to London.— j British Official Wireless. ! The Rev. 11. G. Goring and Mrs. Goring, Wanganui, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs T. E. Toneycliffe, of whom Mrs. Goring is a niece. Mr. and Mrs. Goring will leave to-morrow on their ! return to Wanganui.

In correspondence with friends in Poverty Bay, Mr. F. Sutcliffe, the famous English cricketer, has signified his intention to visit this district, if an opportunity can he made while the M.C.O. team is passing through the Dominion.

Advice has been received in Gisborne of tho impending departure of Mr. N. F. Lowndes, formerly of this town and now holding an important post, in -lie Citizens’ Mutual Life Company in Sydney, to take up organisation work at the London headquarters of the company. Mr. Lowndes expects to be a year or two in Great Britain under the terms of his undertaking, and is being accompanied by Mrs. Lowndes, who was Miss M. Hcnnessy, of Gisborne.