Personal

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 79, 8 August 1923, Page 5

Personal

Mr J. B. Henry has been appointed manager of the Bank of New Zealand.

The death of Mr John Poland, father of Mr 11. Poland, M.P., occured at Auckland on Fridsiy, at the ago of 85 years.

Messrs, gladden and Palmer, of New Plymouth, have been appointed supervising engineers to carry out the repairs to No. 2'tunnel sit the hydro works at Mangorei.

The Dunedin Presbytery yesterday sustained the First Church’s call to Dr. Herrington, of Brisbane.' The salary is £7OO, the .use of' the manse and £SO motor-car allowance.

The Very Rev. Mdusigmor Power left Hawera for Wellington: on Monday to attend the Month’s Mind in connection with the death of Dean McKenna, of New Plymouth,.

Miss Dingraan, the world”s industrial secretary of the Yqung Women’s Christian Association,, has arrived at Sydney from a tour of China and Japan. She sails for New Zealand on Friday,

Mr W. F. Worley, an old a nd wellknown resident of Nelsion, died there on Saturday evening,, after a two days’ illness, at the a.ge of 70. Mr Worley, a native of London, came to New Zealand as a young man in 1875, and settled at Nelson, where he was'engaged in school teaching fo about 37 years, retiring 11 years ago. One of New* Zealand’s earliest colonists Mr B. Gahagan died in Christchurch at the ?ige of 88 years. He was born in London in 1835, and shortly after the famiUy sailed for Australia, settling in Adelaide. In the year 1848 with his parents, he came to New Zealand "in a whaling vessel, landing at the Ba y of Islands.

The Eltham Glee Club assembled at the residence of Mrs Drayton on Monday evening to bid formal farewell to two prominent members, who have been associated with the organisation practically since its inception, Mr and Mrs M. E. FitzGerald, who leave for IHatamata next week.. In presenting tike guests of the evening with a finely mounted picture (reports the Argus) the conductor of the Glee Club (Mr T. B. Crump) made eulogistic refer-

ence to the excellent work performed by both Mr and Mrs Fitz Gerald in connection with various organisations and movements in Eltham, and said they would be greatly missed from musical and church circles, in which they were prominent workers. Their personal characteristics and willingness to assist had won them the esteem of the Eltham people. In conclusion the speaker expressed the hope that the departing 1 guests the new community into which they were going, and would achieve the success, they had in Eltham. Mr Fitz Gerald briefly replied thanking the club members for the fine present and the thoughts that inspired It.