PERSONAL

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 291, 18 November 1931, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. and Mrs. D. White have returned from a holiday spent at Tauranga and Auckland.

Miss A. Hignett, of the local branch of the Fanners' Co-op., left on Monday on a holiday trip in the South.

The death of Professor Hewins, director of the London School of Economics, at the age of 66, is reported by cable.

Mrs. W. Wickham, Bird Road, Ngaere, was a passenger by the mail train to-day for the South, and will spend three weeks on holiday in Christchurch.

Mr. Edward Newman, C.M.G., has been re-elected chairman of trustees of the New Zealand Sheepowners' Acknowledgment of Debt to British Seamen's Fund.

Mr. George Early, of New Plymouth, who was severely injured yesterday afternoon in Broadway when engaged in shifting a heavy case of plate-glass from a lorry, and was taken to the Stratford Hospital, is still In a serious condition.

The death of General Sir William Eliot Peyton is reported by cable from London. He enlisted in the ranks of the Seventh Dragoon Guards, of which his father was colonel. Owing to his height (6ft 6in) and his fine presence, he was selected as Herald during the King's Durbar at Delhi in 1911.

Miss Jane Ellen Maunder, formerly of Hawera, who died at Reihuera on October 27 at the age of 88 years, made public bequests in her ; will totalling £260; The following legacies have been made: £SO to the Manurewa Children's Hcftne; £4O to Dr. Barnado's Homes in England; £4O to the China Inland Mission; £4O to the British and Foreign Bible Society; £SO to the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand for Home and Maori Mission; £2O to the Christian Temperance Union; and £2O to the New Zealand Prohibition Alliance. Miss Maunder was widely known for her work as a teacher and social worker. ' - ;