Personal.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 87, 17 August 1923, Page 5

Personal.

Mr J. W- McMillan, Mayor of Stratford, accompanied by Mrs McMillan, returned by the mail train last night after a month’s holiday in the South Island.

Mr G. F. Inder, of New Plymouth, was admitted as. a solicitor of the Supreme Court by Mr Justice Chapman yesterday.

Mr James Reid, bon of Mr A. W. Reid, of who paid a visit to his father, "returned South by this morning’s mail train; 1

Mr R. Wall, of Plimmerton, and Mr Andrew Gfey (Palmerston North) Jersey breeders, after a visit to Stratford, returned home by this morning’s mail train.

A wireless message received from the s.s. Corinthic states that the Rev. G. Tj Beale, of Te Henui, New Plymouth, will arrive in New Plymouth on Tuesday evening next.

Dr. Hector Mail, second son of Mr

and Mrs J. 'W. Mail, of Midhirst, has been appointed house surgeon at the Coromandel Public Hospital, and takes up his duties in a few days.

Mr W. G. Mace, of the staff of the New Plymouth Customs, has been transferred to Wellington to fill the position of assistant examining officer. He will be succeeded 4)y Mr A. H. Brooke-Taylor, of the Wellington staff.

Mr J. G. L. Hewitt, SJM., :of Palmerston North, presided at the Ha-y wera Court yesterday, relieving Mr J. S. Barton, S.M., who is engaged in Wanganui. Mr Hewitt arrived in Inglewood last night, and will be engaged at the Assessment Court to-day.

Mr W. A. Rauch, who has been on the staff of the Hawera Post Office for over five years, has been transferred to Napier. On behalf of the staff, the postmaster (Mr P. J. O'Gorman) presented Mr Rauch with a suit case and a pair of brushes as a farewell gift.

Mrs Harriett Adelle -Bassett, mother of Lieutenant C. Bassett, V C. died at her residence, Mount Eden, k Auckland, recently, after a short Illness. She -was a daughter of the late Sergeant Thomas Blwyn Powley, one of the early pioneers. She is survived by her husband, Mr P. C. Bassett, and her three children. Lieutenant Bassett, V.C., Mrs J, p. Smytheman, of Warkworth, and Mrs E. Waller, of Mangitangi.