PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18064, 15 April 1933, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mrs E. D. Harper lias returned home after a month’s stay at To Puia.

Sir Apirana Ngata, Minister of Native Affairs arrived at Whakarewarewa on Wednesday in connection with the election of representatives of the Whaknrewarewa area for the Arawa Trust Board.

The engagement is announced between Gladys Isabel, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Greaves, of l’atutaln. and William (Bill), thud son of Mr. and Mrs. R, Allen, of Mangapapa.

The engagement is announced of Eileen Mavis, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 11. L. Mills, Spring Creek. Blenheim, to Philip, older son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H- Scammell, Wellington, and formerly of Tolaga Bay. ‘Mrs. Kitty O’Sullivan, 52, arrived in Wellington oil Wednesday, having com plcted a walk from Spirits Bay, North Auckland, through the North Island m 36 days. Her record day was a 40-mile walk from Paten to Wanganui. English universities and scientific research establishments in Britain were visited by Professor It. .luck, Professor of Physics at Otago University, who returned by tbo Rangitata. On soveral occasions Professor Jack met 'Baron Rutherford, and at Cambridge lie saw the apparatus used to split the atom. ( Guests at the Masonic Hotel this, week-end include Mr. and Mrs. Sewell (Malay States), Mr. and Mrs. Wood; (Opotiki), Mr. and Mrs. Batstone (Christchurch), Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Chamberlain, and Messrs. .1. D. Nelson (Dunedin) Smith (Auckland), A. M. Haldane and N. W. Ballinger (Wellington), and Thompson. A visitor to Wellington, Mr. Deorge E. Clark, of Pretoria, South Africa, a retired Civil Servant, who is at present making a world tour, is one of seven brothers, six of whom met recently in Johannesburg after not having seen each other for 50 years. Mr. Clark was in charge of the telegraphs at that time, and lie came info close touch with President Pnui Kruger, who displayed an uncanny sense of antk'ipntion. On many occasions the president would call up Mr. Clark in the middle of the night lo seek information from the front. It was a habit of bis to give out instructions late at night directing various generals to take up certain positions liefore daylight in view of what he thought would be the British movements. Paul Kruger was seldom wrong in his anticipation. Each of the Cojenso disasters were the result of instructions direct from President Kruger’s study in Pretoria,