PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18253, 23 November 1933, Page 5

PERSONAL

The Governor-General left this morning for Ashburton, and is leaving there to-morrow by car for a tour tn rough North C anterbury. —P.A. Sir George Julius, a son of Archbishop Julius, will pay a visit to New Zealand from Australia early next month. Georges Carpentier, the French boxer, has derided to return to the ring and contest the heavyweight championship ot France. It is seven years riuee he had his last fight.

Private advice has Iteeu received in Wellington that Dr. ]'. Furkert, sou of Mr. F. W. Furkert, late Engineer-in-Chief of the Public Works Department, has passed his final examination at the Royal College of Surgeons, London. .11 is success at the age of 26 is noteworthy, and follows a line performance in passing the primary examination only three months after his arrival in England. Dr. Furkert has been acting as a house surgeon at the Coventry ami Warwickshire Hospital. He intends to return to New Zealand after a year or two more* in England. Mr 15. «l. Bridgman, who has been stationed in Oidborne for the past 12 years as examining officer for the Customs Department, leaves to-morrow morning on promotion to a similar position in Christchurch. Opportunity was taken by businessmen last evening to bid farewell to Mr Bridgman at a function organised by Messrs. J. J. Macdonald and it. Clare, held in the Rotary room at the Masonic Hotel, and attended by a .largo and representative gathering of local importers and customs agents. The chair was laken by Mr A. Stonoham, who, is ;m appropriate speech, asked Mr Bridgman to accept as a farewell gift to Mrs Bt'.dgman a handsome pair of antique solid silver candlesticks. Mr Stoneham and many other speakers referred to the good feeling which had existed between Mr Bridgman and those who had had dealings with the Customs Department J regret was expressed tit Mr Bridgman’s approaching departure, hut the businessmen joined in congratulating Mr Bridgman upon his promotion, and expressed their best wishes to Mr and Mrs Bridgman for success in their vow sphere. Mr Bridgman suitably responded, and remarked that though on his appointment to Gisborne he had been told that it was the “last place on earth,” his 12 years’ stay hero had been the happiest of his experience. Mr Bridgman’s successor, Mr J. Russell, formerly of Wellington, arrived in Gisborne yesterday.