PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 29 March 1933, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr. F. A. L. Hunt, Wellington, is staying at the Criterion Hotel, New Plymouth.

Mr. Lawrence Collins, Napier, is visiting New Plymouth, and is staying at the Criterion Hotel.

Mr. Walter Penn, New Plymouth, who has been spending a holiday at Tauranga, is visiting Auckland. Visitors to New Plymouth en route to Auckland and England were Lord and Lady Wemyss and Mrs. Bathurst. They were guests over the week-end at the White Hart Hotel.

Visitors to the White Hart Hotel, New Plymouth, are Dr. J. and Mrs. Whitton, Wellington, and Mr. H. Livingston, Jamaica.

Mr. A. D. Park, secretary to the Treasury, who became indisposed shortly after his return from the Ottawa Conference, has made an excellent recovery and has resumed his duties at the Treasury.

A presentation to two members of the staff, Miss I. Mountford and Mr. W. Groombridge, who are to be married, was made at the Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, by Mr. W. D. Armit, Commissioner of Crown Lands, who conveyed the staff’s good wishes. Mr. J. A. Redman and Mr. S. H. Brown also referred to the popularity of the two guests. Mr. Groombridge replied and the gathering concluded with musical honours.

After spending the night at New Plymouth His Excellency the GovernorGeneral, Lord Bledisloe, accompanied by his A.D.C. Captain Tweedie, proceeded on his way to Auckland yesterday morning. Despite the unofficial nature of his stay a crowd of some fifty people gathered outside the Criterion Hotel when he made his departure, and cheered him as his car moved off. lhe weather was perfect, and he s h° uld have had a splendid trip oyer Mount Messenger and up the Awakmo Valley.

The death occurred somewhat suddenly on Friday of Mr. Ernest Sunley, at his residence, Karori, Wellington, at the age of 76 years. He leaves two sons, Messrs. R. and H. Sunley, of Wellington, and three daughters, Mrs. Bryan, of Clevedon; Mrs. Brown, late of Wellington and now of New Plymouth; and Mrs. K. Read, of Hataitai. The remains were cremated at Karori cemetery on Sunday, the chief mourners being his two sons. The late Mr. Sunley was one of the oldest members of Karori Bowling Club, of which he was an official for some years. He was of a most genial disposition, and was held m high esteem in. all clubs in the Wellington centre. He always enjoyed his bowls, and had completed m the veterans’ tournament for five or six years. He was an active playing member up to the day preceding his death, and was on the green on Thursday afternoon. He was bom at Bell Block, New Plymouth and spent his early years at Nelson and on the West Coast until he entered the Post and Telegraph service, being at the Wellington Post Office at the time of his retirement.