PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 5 December 1930, Page 8

PERSONAL

Mr. J. Simmons, New Plymouth, arrived, home on Wednesday evening from a trip tp Canada. . . ■ Sir Michael Myers, the Chief Justice, lias agreed to become president of the Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society. ■•Mr. Wl J. Holdsworth, chairman of the Auckland Power Board, has been chosen as official Reform candidate for the Roskill seat.

A Dunedin message reports the death of Mr. Alexander Fraser, aged 90. He was one of the Gabriel’s Gully gold rush pioneers. ' L ; .■ ; ■. It is reported froin Hamilton, Canada, that Bobby Pearoe, the Olympic champion sculler, will be married there on December 10. His fiancee from Australia arrives at Vancouver on December A Wellington message states that Mr. S. E. Fay, repairing and equipment assistant of the New Zealand Railway Department, has resigned in order to accept a position in England.

Mr. L. L. P. Brabant, who was a member of. the New Plymouth Post Office staff for some years, (Tied at Palmerston North yesterday, the cause of death being heart failure. ; A London message states that Sir John Norton Griffiths, the' British engineer, whose death took place at Cairo under tragic circumstances followings a dispute over, the Assuan Dam contract, left £5392. Among the Orford’s passengers' to Sydney to-day were Messrs. Gilmour and Blundell, who are returning from the Empire Press conference. The former is sailing for New Zealand by the Uiimaroa on Friday. Mr. Blundell and family will leave by the Marama on December 12.

Guests at the Hotel Imperial, New Plymouth, include Messrs. w - Gdey, R. Moore (Wellington), T. McGiffi Marton McGill (Auckland), J. A He derson (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs A. W. Nisbet (Auckland), 11 P (Wellington), Miss. N. roa), Messrs. H. D. .Ellernigton (P aerf,a '’ .T. M. Hutchinson (Hawera), J. F- Jack son (Wellington). Members of the Wellington Stock Exchange g a tj’ ered on Kirkbv their to express to Mr. R. «y nn . e ».’L pr vice appreciation of his many Y . chairto the Exchange in the capacity of chair Z presented Mr. Kirkby, «. beta» <* tl,. Jen,hers Je. “ni thmkrf Idn'tor his untiring efforts anil KpnSlity in «' hl ’ duties during the last 1- ? •