PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1930, Page 10

PERSONAL

Guests at the Criterion, New Ply< mouth, include Mr. and Mrs. Provan, Sydney, Mr. J. P. Lethbridge, Turakip/, Mr. G. Sutherland, Auckland, and Major Z. A, Pym, Woodville. Mr. A. E. R. Gilbert, New Plymouth, left yesterday morning to attend the executive meeting of the New Zealand. Timber Merchants’ Federation at Wellington. Among the guests at the Imperial, New Plymouth, are Mr. and Mrs. Sulli* van, Wellington, Messrs. J. Gunnison, J. Wallace, Wellington, Donaldson, Wanganui, A. McKenzie, Hawera, A. Giffney, Auckland, A. Flavcll and G. Ormsby, Wellington. Mr. R. A. Falla, lecturer in nature study at Auckland Training College, has been appointed a member of Sir Douglas Mawson’s Antarctic expedition. He went south with Sir Douglas last year, states a Press Association telegram. One of Central Hawke’s Bay’s earliest settlers, Mrs. Marghret Harding, died on Monday at Waipukurau. Born near Camperdown, Victoria, Australia, in 1853, she came to New Zealand with her father at the age of five years. She was educated at Dunedin and Oamaru, and then went to Napier, where she married. Mrs. Harding was an expert horsewoman, and during the early days rode through all parts of Wairarapa, Hawke’s Bay and Taranaki districts. She lived in Taupo during an exciting period when the armed constabulaiy were stationed there. The death occurred at New Plymouth yesterday of the Rev. Augustus McInnes Bradbury, aged 65 years. Mi. Bradbury, who was drawing master at the New Plymouth High Schools for about 14 years, retired at the end of last year, and since that time has been suffering from a severe illness. He was a man of very wide reading, being deeply versed in history and philosophy, and will be remembered by hundreds of young people whom he instructed during his association with the high schools. He was a relative of Messrs. Bradbury, Greatorex, St. Paul’s Churchyard, London, with whom he was connected before taking orders.