PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18579, 13 December 1934, Page 3

PERSONAL

A will to Columlm Church, Oamnru, lias been accepted by the Rev. W. Lawson Marsh, of Devonpoii, Auckland. The salary offered was .£4OO with manse. General Sir Alexander God ley will arrive at the Bluff from Melbourne on December 27, and will reach Wellington from Blenheim on January 31. The Rev, Father Louis G. Loughnan, S'.J., headmaster of Rivervicw College. Sydney, is visiting Christchurch aftgr an absence of 27 years. Mr. D. W. Coleman. M.F., accompanied by Mrs. Coleman, left Gisborne this morning for Wellington, and will return to his electorate a day or two before Christmas.

Mr 11. Large, of Hawke’s Bay, aml Mrs Large, have returned from Tokio, .Japan, where Mr Large attended the Bed Cross conference as the Mew Zealand delegate.

Lieutenant-Colonel A. C. 11. Dean, of England, formerly of the Boyal Artillery, and Mrs Dean arrived at Auckland toy the Aorangi from Sydney on a 'three months’ holiday visit to New Zealand. In recognition of his 23 years’ service as a member of the Palmerston North Technical School Committee, Mr. J. A. Nash, M.P., the present chairman, has been presented with a bust of himself by the director of the school, Air. G. G. Hancox.

Garnet Ellem, 8, a Grafton (N-.5.W.) lad, has been chosen as soprano soloist with the Young Australia League concert party to tour England next year. I’rofessor Oaten, music director of the Young Australia League, after heaving Garnet Ellem sing, said he laid a wonderful voice, and was a most promising singer. lie predicted that in less than two years Ellem would lie singing at Westminster Abbey before Their Majesties the King and Queen. Sir Henry Davies, C. 8., of Exeter, (Devon), arrived in Duncd'in recently by the motor liner Port. Fairy from London. He is a retired civil servant and is making his first visit to New Zealand. Sir Henry stated that lie had heard so much about the congenial climate of the Dominion that lie decided to make the voyage and spend some weeks in this country. Although 78 years of age, he hoped to walk over the Milford track and' to visit the Southern Lakes and the glaciers on the West Coast. He will then visit the North Island.

Major E. G. Clark, a New Zealander by birth, arrived at Fremantle last week on board the P. and G. Iy.M.S. Strathnaver. He was paralysed in the legs as the result of a motor accident two years ago. and has one arm bandaged and useless through war wounds by received in the South Alrican campaign. lie discussed the plans lie had formed to establish a flying school in Brisbane. lie has three planes in the Slrathnavei' —two Avros and a Spartan —with three pilots and a mechanic, fie controls two similar organisations m Wales, but has come to Australia lie cause the English weather conditions make so much dead time. He will prethablv tender for aerial survey work in Northern Australia.