PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 28, 29 December 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The combined staffs of the Hawera railway station assembled in the RailAVay Hall on Thursday evening to farewell Mr A. A. Rolfe, chief clerk, who has resigned to take up farming near New Plymouth. ' The Star states that Mr Rolfe has been associated with the Hawera office for thirteen years, and has been in the service for over thirty years. Mr A. Thomson acting ch'ef clerk, who presided, presented Mr Rolfe with a sliver entree dish and a set of carvers as a token of respect from the staffs and the local carriers

An unique instance of bridging the century with three ministries in r the Methodist Church has been brought to the notice of the Auckland Star. On December 23, 1817, the Rev. Walter Lawry, Wesleyan chaplain and missionary, sailed for Australia from England. In 1845, his son, the Rev. Henry H. Lawry, was ordained in Auckland, and devoted himself to missionary work among the Maoris and settlers. The Rev. Albert C. I/awry, ordained in 1889, is now ex-president of the Methodist Church, and will probably be celebrating at St. Albans, Christchurch, this Sunday the one hundredth anniversary of his grandfather's departure from the Homeland. Other well-known grandsons of the Rev. Walter Lawry are Mr W. F. Lawry, of Melbourne; Mr J. Lawry, of Auckland; and Mr W. A. Aldred, engaged on special service at Nukualofa, Tonga.