PERSONAL

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 45, 27 June 1929, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr S, A. Ward was last night elected secretary of the newly-formed Aero Club. .

Mr It. F. Harkness is about nga«i after having been confined to lus homo through influenza.

Constable Hughes, has resumed duty after being laid aside for some time with a broken collar--bone. At the. Methodist social last night a vote of sympathy was expressed m connection with the death of the late General Booth, reference being made to the great loss sustained by the Salvation Arniy.

Mr Sidney Webb, Chief Secretary for the Dominions, on whom the MUn* has conferred a barony, will take the title of Baron Passfield, of \Pi-Ft field Cclrner, states the London Gazette.

The Foreign Secretary, she Bt Hon. Arthur Henderson, has Mr Philip Noel Baker, member for Coventry, t 0 be his Parliar smentary private secretary, reports the British Official . Wireless service from. Rugby.

Mr F. L. Cullen, lately manager "of" the Union Bank, at Stratford, left yesterday to take up duty in the Bank's branch at Wanganui. He has been succeeded at Stratford by Mr A. Clark, late of Christchurch.

Mr Dion Boucieault, the actormanager, is dead, states a London cablegram. Mr Boucieault, son of the pupular Irish dramatist and actor, was horn in New York on May b'i 1859. He first appeared on the stage m N<w York at the age of 20. and he went to London in the following year, 1880. He Das. been the manager of several LoruKm theatres. Miss Irene Vanhrugh, i*e actress, is his wife.

Lowgarth settlers met in the hall on Monday evening to bid farewell to Mr M McMahon and family, who are leaving shortly for Australia. A pleasant time was spent with music and dancing, and during an interval Mr Len Taylor made the presentations to Mr McMahon and family. They consisted of a travelling trunk and rug for Mr McMahon, a pearl necklace for Miss McMahon and a fountain pen for Mr W. M, Mc Mahon.