PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18587, 22 December 1934, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Hon. A. D. McLeod, M.P. for Wairarapa, is- a patient in a private hospital in Wellington. Mr. McLeod attended a State luncheon to the Duke of Gloucester, and he subsequently became ill and went into hospital on Tuesday. Mr. Justice Johnston, Christchurch, will spend the vacation on his farm at Opoufcama, Hawke’s Bay. He will return to the South Island on February 3, and will preside over the Supreme Court criminal sessions at Timaru.

Adjutant 0. E. Ransom, in charge of the Salvation Army in Gisborne, has been confined to bed for some days with influenza, and it is expected that it will be some days before he is able to resume his duties.

After a separation of 17 years, Mr. J. Finikin, a member of the Grenadier Guards Band, has been enjoying a short leave in New Plymouth, during which there has been a nappy reunion with his mother and members of his family. It was while lie was still absent on service nearly 11 years ago that his widowed mother, three brothers and sisters left Staffordshire for New Zealand to join another member of the family. Recent guests at, the Masonic Hotel include H.R.11. Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, Major-General R. G. H. Howard-Vyse, Captain L. Schreiber, Captain M. Kerr, Captain Tweedie; Colonel Symon, Hon. J. A. Young; Mr. and Mrs. S. Kelly and daughters, Mrs. Fotheringliam, Messrs M. Fraser, C. Ellis, A. Furlong, W. L. Middlemiss, H. Ramsden, 11. Lee, H. H. Sterling!, L. Whisker, G. Young, H. M. Patrick, T. Munden, G. F. Dixon, J. R, Smith, R. J. Thomson and L. Usmar, Wellington; Messrs A. 11. Reeves, G. Lynn, A. W. Walker, G. Nicol, G. Holland, E. Jenkins, and D. Wright; Messrs W. Reilly, S. Rowland, W. Howe, P. Bayley and L. Burch, London; Messrs A. T. Ransom, and G. E. Bland, England; Mr. J. MacFarlane, Yorkshire; Mr. R. Von Bibra, Melbourne; Mr. R. Thomson, Napier; Mrs. Burney, Sydney.

“In general it seems that the time for despondency lias gone, and it is opportune for me to throw out a suggestion to parents that they may with some assurance abstain from undue haste in sending their young sons out into the world, but instead give them that proper time and schooling which will enable them to discover and develop their natural bents. It is, of course, at Christinas time each year that the wholesale quest for employment by boys occurs, but the changing of labor requirements can be well judged by the placing of boys during the currency of the three school terms. Never before in the history of the school has the roll fallen between February and December by such a large amount as 20 per cent., in other words roughly by one pupil in every five, and this is due undoubtedly to a renewed demand for boys in the city."—Mr. F. W. Gamble, headmaster of the Mount Albert Grammar tSchool, Auckland, speaking at the annual prizegiving.

Guests tit the Gisborne Hotel during the past few days included Mrs. E. W. M. Wallis, Misses E. Wallis and P. Pountnoy and Messrs. M. T. B. Hall and Wallis, Hangnroa; Mrs. J. Rich, Dunedin; Miss Wachsman and Master M. Rich, Havelock North; Mr. and Mrs. W. Jackson. London; Messrs. H. V. and C. B. Haglcy, Hastings; Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Gellert, Mrs. M. Fitzgerald, and Misses B. and C. Fitzgerald, Tolaga Bay; Mr. H. T. Tidswoll, Christchurch; Mr. A. M. Lindsay, Puha; Miss I. C. Boxall, Whakanngiangi; Mr. and Mrs. Robertson, Tiniroto; Mrs. Pyne, Misses W. Picken and G. Lorie, and Messrs. Raymond Clare and ,L. L. White. Auckland; Miss F. Brown, Hides Bay; Mr. A. L. Atkinson, Whangarei; Mr, and Mrs. J. H. McNeil, and -Miss'll. McNeil, Tikitiki; Miss Betty, Wilson, To Puia; Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, Lower Hutt; Mr. G. R. Brisco, Masterton; Mr. B. Fitzgerald, Tolaga Bay; Mr. I. Macdonald, Euatom*