PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1934, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. and Mrs. T. Garland and Mrs. D. Basham will leave this evening for Auckland. The Rev. and Mrs. Scrimgeour are travelling by private car. Mr J. W. Clarke and Mr. J. A. Malcolm, of the New Zealand Government Tourist Department, left Wellington by the Marama for Sydney. The death of Miss Ivy Lee, director of public relations of Rockefellers, as the result of tumour on the brain, is reported by cable from New York. Mr. Andrew William Sneddon has been appointed general manager of the Australian Mutual Provident Society in succession to Mr. A. C. Hollinworth, who has retired, states a Sydney cable. Mr. Ross McGill, the Wellington artist, whose work was commented on favourably at the exhibition of the New Zealand Society of Artiste, now in progress at Christchurch, has left Wellington to take up a position with an important commercial house at Sydney.

Sir Holburt Waring, C.8.E., M.S., F.R.C.S., president of the Royal College of Surgeons, after visiting Melbourne to open the new building of the Royal College of Surgeons of Australasia, will Spend a week in New Zealand, during which he will visit Rotorua, the Spa at Te Aroha and the Waitomo Caves. Mr. J. M. Smith, of the fields division of the Department of Agriculture, who has just been promoted to the position of fields superintendent for the OtagoSouthland district, has returned from Dunedin, but will leave again to-day to attend a departmental conference at Palmerston North.

The death last week of Mrs. John Doidge, Brightwater, removed another of the old pioneer settlers, states the. Nelson Mail. Mrs. Doidge was bom at Stoke in 1856, and .she had been a resident of the Nelson district all her life. She is survived by her husband and seven children—Mr. Arthur Doidge (Shannon), Mrs. A. Fowler (Richmond), Mr. W. Doidge (Belgrove), Mr. Ernest Doidge (Blenheim), Mr. H. Doidge (New Plymouth), Mr. P. Doidge . (Brightwater) and Mrs. R. Ford (Waimea West).