PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19314, 3 May 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. and Mrs. J. Blmnsky and family, who have been residing at Kopuawhara for some time, have returned to live in the Muriwai district. —Special. The many friends of Captain \V, T. Pitt, of the Native Department's staff, will regret to learn that lie is confined to his home by illness, and is unlikely to resume duty during the next fortnight, lie was taken ill suddenly at Mahia last Wednesday, and his condition is reported to be improving,

Mr. It. M. nrasted, national secretary of the Y.M.C.A., paid a brief visit to Cisborne on Saturday and left during the day for Wellington. On his way to Gisborne Mr. Brasted called at Kopuawhara, where the Y.M.C.A. hut was destroyed by fire last week.

Passengers by East Coast, Airways' planes in the Gisborne-Napier service over the week-end included :—Mcsdames H. Smaills and M. Hughes; .Misses M. A. t'illman, M. Murdock, and J. Smith ; Messrs. H. llamon, C. Richardson, C. Hansen, I*. W. Peterson, 11. Pettit, u. Caney, G. Nicholls, and Canon A. F. Hall.

Mr. R. J. Kerridge, managing director 01 Gisborne Theatres, Limited, and proprietor of the Gisborne Times, left Gisborne yesterday for Auckland, to connect with the Monterey for San Francisco. Mi'. Kerridge will spend some weeks in the United States and Canada, and plans to visit Los Angeles, New Vork, and Vancouver in the course of his tour.

Mr. J. S. W. Neilson, Raukokore, who recently met with a serious accident while motoring between Raukokore and Cape Runaway, has recovered from his painful injuries. He has retired from the active management of his sheep-station and in future will live in Rotorua. Mr. Xeilson, who is well known in Gisborne, has been connected with the management of sheep-stations during the last 50 years, 27 years of which have been devoted to the management of the station at Raukokore. During the latter period Mr. Xeilson was both partner and manager of that station-

After being more than .14 months on the way, Mr. Bruce McDougall, one of the young Aucklandors who joined (he sailing-ship Joseph Conrad at Auckland, reached London shortly after Easter, having arrived at Southampton a few days before. At New York, where the Joseph Conrad was sold, Mr. McDougall and Mr. looter Henry and Ray Crawford were signed on as members of the crew of the private yacht Marilyn', which sailed to England by way'of Bcrnv'fia and the Azores.

A party of representatives of the Ford Motor Company of Now Zealand, Ltd., arrived from Wellington this morning, having made the journey to Gisborne in connection with the silver jubilee of Messrs I 5i K ,,e1l nnd H o l„ 10s , the local Lord dealers, mid (bo opening of the firms extensive now premises The party, which is headed by Mr. G. H. Jackson, managing director, comprises Air VV. (~ laylor, sales manager, Mr. ■I. U liroun, service manager. Mr. Ralph \li- i'>\ . r ''! Vol ' tlsl "K representative, Mr. k. v. ihilhps, picture advertising representative Mr L. Sullivan, sales organ'T'iv m L ' T^ cGl '°K o '-. of the head office staff, Mr. IT. Rent, Alliance Finance Corporation, and Mr. Leslie Rowntree, of LimHHWemngZ AdVertising Ag6nCy '