Personal Pars

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 423, 1 December 1933, Page 4

Personal Pars

Miss Molly Whittle returned from ! i! visit t 0 Wellington yesterday. J Mr. Bruce McMillan is up and | about again after being laid up with I nu ankle injury sustained during ski I sports On Mount Egmont.

Mr. James Conipton, Queensland, | has been appointed conductor of the i W.uiganui Garrison Band, the Press j Association reports.

j Mr. Percy Thomson, who has been 'on a visit to Wanganui, whore he at- ; tended a sitting of the Transport Lie. j ensing Authority, of which he is* ; chairman, returned to Stratford last) I night.

Sister D. Robertson, of the Stratford Public Hospital staff, left by mail train this morning for Christchurch, where she will commence a cour.se of maternity training at St. Helens Hospital.

General Sir Arthur Cu'rrie, Commander in Chief of the Canadian Corps in Prance, principal and vice chancellor of McGill University, has died at the age of 57 A Montreal

j cable states that Sir Arthur was ; stricken with blockage of a blood ves_ | sel in the middle of the brain on, I November 7 and pneumonia (leveli oped to bring death. '

Mrs. Mary Lucy Aroha Brustad, J who, as Miss Aroha Clifford, was well | known throughout New Zeaalnd as I the first woman to gain her pilot's '■ license through an aero club, died ; from pneumonia :n Anmri Hospital, | Rotherham. (.'hri.-tchMi.il, yesterday, lat the age of 25 years. Her death ; followed :h.) birth ot a son at the j hospital two uay.i a&.\

Chosen from 44 applicants from alb i over New Zealand, John Norman Mill. j aid, M.Sc, 8.A., has been I ed headmaster of the Hutt Valley I High School in place of Mr. H. P. j Kidson, who will leave at the end of ! tho year to he principal of the Otago' i Boys' High School, the Press Associ. j ation report.-. Mr. Millard has been j first, assistant at the high school for j the past seven years and head of the | department of mathematics and i science.

i The death occurred at Auckland | last week of Mr. Albert Mcßeth, aged j 8u years. He was born near Marton, | bring the youngest of the eight sons i of the late Mr. and Mrs. Mcßeth, j Wiio arrived in New Zealand in 1840. I Starting sheepfarming with his father ; Mr. Mcßeth later farmed on his own ' account, in 18815 he married Miss I Amelia Whits, who arrived in New j Zealand in 1878. They retired and : settled in Avondale about four years ! ago. Mr. Mcßeth is survived by his j wife one son, Mr. Raymond Mc- • Beth", Stratford and a daughter, Mrs. Stead, Avondale.