PERSONAL ITEMS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXI, Issue 2443, 13 September 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Dr W. H. Clcary, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, leaves to-day for London by the IMmutaka.

Mr Manuel Gundelach has been gazetted lion. Consul-General of Chili for New Zealand.

Dr Xenozo Utsurikawn, Professor of Anthropology at Iveio University. Tokyo, .Japan, lias applied for membership of the Polynesian Society.

Dr Haigh, who is to conduct the practical musical examinations at; Cambridge, will probably be here for that purpose on the 26th just.

Miss Gwynncth was a passenger for Auckland this morning. She will be absent from Cambridge for two weeks. Mr Eric Cocks, of-Dargavillc, son of Mr and Mrs J. W. Cocks, has been holiday-making in Cambridge. Mr Charles Smith, of Wanganui, has been elected president of the Wellington Provincial Executive of the Farmers' Union.

Dr J. W. Mellwraith and /JCr H. McChcsney, State inspectors, who have been examining at the Cambridge District High School for the past two days will leave for Matamata this evening.

Mr J. H. Heed, father of Mr W. H. Peed, of this town, is in his 82nd year and has been secretary to all the Lord Mayors of Bristol. He is noted throughout England for his collection of stories and is an omnivorous reader.

Sir Edwin and Lady Mitchelson celebrated their golden wedding yesterday. The anniversary was observed quietly as a family re-union at the beautiful Motutara homestead, on the West Coast.

The deaths have occurred of Mrs R. Parker who expired suddenly at Pahiatua; Mr John Ogilvie, who died at Kotorua, aged 7S years; and Mr Henry John Wadham, of Xorthcote, at the age of 64 years. Master Jim Hunter, of Cambridge, was among the Waikato representative hockey players who challenged Auckland last Saturday afternoon for the shield. Incidentally Master Hunter, who is not yet IS, is the youngest member and only schoolboy in the team.

A recent number of the New Zealand Methodist Times contains a portrait of Mr William Hanson, and the editor says "he is not only the oldest Methodist local preacher in New Zealand, but probably in the whole of Australasia." Mr Hanson is in his ninetyseventh year, and lives in Grey Lynn, Auckland.

At the service at St. Paul's Methodist Church on Sunday morning last, the Rev. J. D. McArthur made feeling reference to the death of the late Rov. Win. Cannell, whose last years of active ministry had been at Cambridge. A vote of condolence' with the widow and relatives of deceased was passed, all standing. Mr J. Delaney, who has been ActingPostmaster at Cambridge for the past five months, left on Saturday to take up a similar position in Otaki. Before leaving ho was presented by members of the Cambridge Post Office staff with a fountain pen as a mark of the high esteem in which he was held during his short stay-here. The presentation was made by Mr Ingham, Mr Delaney suitably responding. The death occurred on Sunday of the Marquess of Milford Haven. The Marquess was holiday-making in Scotland, and returned to London on Saturday in good health. He stayed at the Naval and Military Club in Piccadilly, and attended the theatre. He complained oji Sunday morning of being unwell, and died in the afternoon at the club by heart failure following a severe attack of influenza—(A. and N.Z. Cable).