PERSONAL

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 84, 25 June 1930, Page 4

PERSONAL

Sir Walter Camcross M.L.0., left Eltham for Wellington yesterday.

Nurse Wis© of the Education Department, is in Stratford at present.

The many friends of Mrs. J. W. Kelly will regret to hear that at present she is seriously ill.

Mr W. J. Poison, M.P., will leave by this evening's express for Wellington for the opening Of the session tomorrow.

LieUt.-Col. L. H. Jardine, ».S,O, M.C. has relinquished command of the Ist Battalion, of the Taranaki Regiment, and is transferred, to the Reserve of Officers as from .Tune 1. states the N. 55. Gazette.

Last Saturday the local staff of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. met for the purpose of making al presentation to Mr. W. P. Phillips., who wan to be married at Auckland yesterday.

The Mayor extended congratulations to Mrs. Robert Masters in the course of his speech at the opening of the PlunKet Society's rooms yesterday. He was pleased, he said. and felt sure all members of the Society were pleased, that the hug. hand of a member of the Society had received the honour of being appointed to the Upper House.

Before commencing his (speech at the opening of the Pluuket Society loom yesterday, the Mayor (Mi\ P. Thomson) said that he could not refrain from mentioning the absence of Mrs. IT. B. Abraham. ITe felt sure, he .said, that the sympathy of, everybody present went, out to Mrs. Abraham and her family in the irretrievable loss they had 1 suffered.

The death occurred yesterday at the Patea Hospital of an old resident of the Stratford district in tlie person of Mr., Marmaduke Freer. The late Mr. Freer arrived in the district in the early nineties and took rip farming at Douglas*. Then for a number of years he lived in Stratford, and later was farming near Opunake and at Tongaporutu, living at Patea more recently. A wide circle of friends, especially among the older residents, will extend sympathy to Mrs. Freer and other relatives. Private interment ivill be at Stratford.