PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19056, 2 July 1936, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. and Mrs. F. Talbot, Turangi, Taupo, who have been the guests of Mrs. M. Talbot, Desmond road, Gisborne, returned to their home on Monday. They were accompanied on their return journey by Miss M. Talbot.

Mr. J, R. Kirk, chairman of the Soldiers’ Civil Re-establishment League and chairman of the Dominion Council of Boy Scouts, is expected to arrive in Gisborne on Saturday, and will he staying at the Masonic Hotel. Mr. Kirk was Mayor of Gisborne in 1913-14. After a period of over 25 years’ service with the Waiapu- County Council, Mr. A. L. Temple, county clerk, has tendered his resignation, which is to be considered at the next monthly meeting of the board. Mr. Temple is well known throughout the East Coast for bis obliging nature and for his grasp of local body administration. His knowledge of the hinterland of the Coast is unusually extensive.

After a notable career which includes more than 40 years of continuous service with the Tyser Line and the Commonwealth and Dominion Line, Captain Hugh Hollis, marine superintendent in New Zealand of the latter line, has retired on superannuation. Captain Hollis had the remarkable record of appointment to the command of a 6000toil overseas liner only 11 years after he first went to sea. Known in every New Zealand port, Captain Hollis is held in the highest esteem in shipping and mercantile circles.

The Minister of Justice, the Hon. H. G. R. Mason, who passed through Gisborne early in the week en route to the East Coast, successfully completed the journey to Opotiki via the Cape Runaway route, and arrived at Opotiki last evening. The Minister, who was aceoii.~.:uiied on the journey by Mrs. Mason and Mr. B. L, Dullard, Under-Secretary of the Justice Department and Controller of Prisons, resumed his northward progress this morning, his first objective being VVhakatanc.

The Rev. Dr. E. N. Merrington, master of Knox College, Dunedin, will leave Auckland by the Niagara on July 21 to attend a conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations to be held in August at Yosemite National Park, United States. Dr. Merrington said that he understood the other New Zealand delegates to the conference would be Piiofessor Belshaw, Auckland; Mr. T. MHall, Wellington; Mr. B. R. Turner, Wellington; and Miss Seaton, Wellington. The conference would discuss matters of economic and international significance, -with special reference to problems of the Far East. After the conference Dr. Merrington will attend the tercentenary celebrations of Harvard University, Which will mark the three hundredth anniversaiy of (the establishment of higher education in America. Dr. Merrington will visit England before returning to New Zealand.

Mr. P. Kaua, of the Native Department’s staff at Gisborne, left this morning for Wellington to undertake special duties at the Wellington office of the Native Land Court. It is expected that this special work will keep him in Wellington for at least six months. Mr. Kaua is well known as a Poverty Bay representative in Rugby football, having played in a majority of the representative fixtures of the past four seasons, while he is also a clever exponent of the game of hockey. Last summer be came to the front among district tennis players, defeating both J. J. fffeevens, the district singles champion, and N. IT. Bull, former holder of the Gisborne Lawn Tennis Club championship, in the same tournament. He visited Wiiitara last week as a momhfi' of the Tairawhjti Rugby team, and played a big part in the Eastorn Maoris’ victory in the TainiiiManiopoto Cup match. His services are likely to be in demand by Wellington clubs,