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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19132, 29 September 1936, Page 13

Appointed as postmaster to the Reninera post office, Auckland. 15 years ago, Mr. .Tames Gearey will retire on Wednesday from the service of the Post and Telegraph Department, on superannunt ion - Mr. O. W- Williams, now stationed at Mannganni. will be his successor.

The l>ody of the man found in the Domain near’the Auckland Hospital by a passer-by on Thursday night has been identified as that of Matthew Hannan. ,v r ed 51. of Pemuera. lie was a wntcrsiTjo worker, who had been acting as nigiitwatchman in the ‘Domain. With their own passports and travelling bags, two young girls were special passengers to New Zeeland from England by the Rotorua, which arrived at Auckland last week. One of them, aged only eight, was Iris Wilkinson, an orphan, from Wigan. Lancashire. She was met at the wharf by Mrs. S. Hardwick, of 3 Wilding avenue, Epsom, with whom she to live. The other was Jean Mc-rto-imiil. n«ed 1 3. who has come out from filos-row. Scotland, to join her mother at Wellington.

A hive of bees swarmed in Upper Queen street, Auckland, on Friday. According to a bystander they were hovering about iust near the Newton East Manual Training School. It was thought that they would settle on a telegraph pole, but instead they settled on the front of a breakdown truck belonging to Jones and Gee which was standing outside their garage. Pupils from the high school did good work in enticing the bees into a box after finding the queen and fearlessly handling the bees. After some trouble the main part of the swarm was transported to a shallow box by the aid of hand-brushes arid dust-pans. No one was severely stung, although the bees were crawling all over the bystanders.