PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1930, Page 8

PERSONAL

Lieut. R. S. Judson, V.C., N.Z’.S.C., left New Plymouth for Auckland yesterday on leave. . - .

The Hon. Mr. .Justice Blair, who gave the chief, address at the Boys’ High School • prize distribution on Tuesday evening, left for Wellington yesterday. Sir Henry and Lady Beresford-Pierse. Yorkshire, England, accompanied by Miss B. Turner, England, are visiting New . Plymouth. They are staying at the Criterion.

A London cablegram reports the. death of Mr. W. F, Ferguson, trade officer at the New Zealand High Commissioner’s Office, after an operation for-appendici-tis. ■ ,7: -7/ 7'-7' ■ ■

Mr. H. Hall, Lemon Street, New Plymouth, has received advice that he has been elected Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society. . ' - -

M. Poincare has slightly improved, states a cable from Paris. ■' ,He is suiferino- from phlebitis and congestion of the lungs. Guests at the "Criterion, New Plymouth, include Colonel. F. Serie, England, Mr. H. R. Higginbotham, Wanganui, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. and Mr. Peter Pike, Auckland, Mr. F. R. Jones,'Wellington, Mr. J. M. Gamble, Wellington, Miss Ford, England, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Brown, Melbourne, Miss R. Hansen, Melbourne, Mr. Leslie Holland, Rosebay, N.S.W.. and Mri and Mrs. Jim Gerald. Australia.