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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 201, 25 August 1931, Page 8

PERSONAL.

VICE-REGAL. Their Excellencies the GovernorGeneral and Lady Bledisloe, who have spent the past six days at Nelson, where his Excellency has been recuperating from his recent indisposition, will return to Wellington to-day. Colonel J. F. Studholme will leave for the north to-night. Bishop Richards, of Dunedin, will leave for the north to-night. The Hon D. T. Fleming, the Hon R. Moore and Sir Heaton Rhodes, all members of the Legislative Council, will leave for Wellington to-night. Messrs W. A. Bodkin, T. Burnett and J. Bitchener, M.P.’s, will leave by the ferry steamer to-night. A Dunedin message says that Mr B. S. Irwin has been re-elected president of the Forbury Park Trotting Club. Messrs G. S. Amos, W. H. Joll (Wellington), T. M’Kegg and R. J. Were (Nelson) are staying at Warner’s Hotel. Messrs C. T. Castle, W. A. Grove and L. 11. Labone (Wellington) are guests at the United Service Hotel. Mr W. A. Lepine (Auckland) is among those staying at the Clarendon Hotel. Councillor G. T. Thurston was added to the Baths and Entertainments Committee by the Christchurch City Council at its meeting last evening, on the motion of the chairman (Councillor A. E. Armstrong). At the last meeting of the Marlborough Automobile Association, the president (Mr R. P. Furness) was appointed to represent the association at the annual meeting of the South Island Motor Union, to be held at Christchurch on September 23. The death occurred recently at the Wellington Hospital of Noel Folenphant Robinson, late of Redcliffs, Christchurch, at the age of twenty-four years. He was the third son of Mrs E. M. Robinson and the late Mr Frank Robinson, and was assistant manager of Hulston’s Furnishing Co., Christchurch. Mr Robinson was a great lover of amateur athletics and a keen tennis player. He was to have been married very shortly. Mr Thomas Ashton Garratt, a wellknown chemist and optician, passed away at his residence in Brooklyn, Wellington, on Wednesday last. The late Mr Garratt, who was in his sixty-seventh year, came to New Zealand with his parents at the age of twelve. His father, Mr William Thomas Garratt, commenced business as a chemist at the corner of Vivian and Taranaki Streets, Wellington, this business afterwards being carried on by his son, who was at different times in business in Feilding, Lyttelton and Tai hape. After a brief period of farming in the King Country he re-entered business in Wellington about 1922, and was latterly at Miramar. He was twice married and leaves a widow, two daughters and one son.