PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1930, Page 12

PERSONAL

Sister Jones, who has been in charge of the Opunake cottage hospital for three, years, left Opunake on Monday for Hawke’s Bay.

Mr. W. Bright, Spotswood, who has been in the New Plymouth hospital for a month through an accident, has sufficiently recovered to return home. Mr. F. 11. Brown, Inglewood, and his son, Mr. R. Brown, who have been touring the North Island during the past month, returned home last night. Mr. W. A. lorns, at present in England, was yesterday re-elected chairman of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board, states a Wellington Press Association message.

Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Ebbett loft Opunake on Monday for Morrinsvilie where they will make their home. Mr. Ebbett has purchased a farm in that district, and will follow dairying pursuits. Guests at the Criterion, New Plymouth, include Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Todd, ■Wellington, Mr. G. A. Dawson, Wellington, Mr. L. Jellss, Wellington, Air. Scott Ramsay, Wellington, Air. W. C. Glenny, Patca, Mr. W. S. Drysdale, Sydney, and Mr. J. Clark, Dunedin.

Under a new policy of offering appointments in the colonial service to young men in the Dominion,..Air. Ronald O. Sinclair; LL.AL, Auckland, has/been designated for a post in West Africa, the Press Association reports from Auckland. The appointment is the first received by a New Zealander under the policy recently inaugurated. Air. Sinclair’s father is the Rev. W. A. Sinclair, general secretary of the New Zealand Methodist Foreign Missionary Society. Word has been received of the death at Alastcrton of Air. William Hawke, father of Air. W. E. Hawke, Waitara. Air. W, Hawke, who was 74 years of age, was born at Lower Hutt and as a baby was taken by his parents on horseback over the Rimutakas to Greytown, where the family —Air. John Hawke, bis wife and 13 children—settled. Mr. W. Hawke had lived at -Masterton for the past 48 years. The death occurred at Thames on Tuesday of Airs. E. AlcQuade, mother of Air. R. P. AlcQuade, New Plymouth Mrs. McQuade was 88 years of age, and her late husband was engineer to severul ininin? companies. Mrs. McQuade was the eldest of 14 children of the late Air. and Airs. W. L. Thorburn, who came to New Zealand in the ship Duchess of Argyle when she was nine months old. Her family lived first at . Mechanics’ Bay, Auckland, later at Whangapua, and then at Tararu, Thames. Mrs. McQuade was- in- good health until four months ago, When s-he .fell arid' broke her leg.