PERSONAL ITEMS.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIII, Issue 3056, 12 May 1923, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr C. H. Frayling, principal of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind for the past 17 years, has resigned.

Mr H. Friedlandcr has been elected chairman of the Putururu-Taupo Bailway Board.

Mr Watson, a prominent builder of Dunedin, is spending a holiday in Cambridge.

Mr L. G. An sell left Cambridge yesterday to take up an important position with the Auckland Drainage Board. All wish him success in liis new sphere.

Mr H. Stebbing, organising secretary of the Young Citizens’ League, spent the week-end at Uoto-o-rangi, and was the guest of Mrs C. W. Clark. Mr Stebbing returned to Auckland on Monday morning.

The Rev. Frank Harty was, on Thursday last, Instituted vicar of the Frankton parochial district, the ceremony being conducted by Archdeacon Cowic, in the presence of HOC parishioners.

Mr N. Alfred Nathan, of Messrs L. D. Nathan and Co., Ltd., Auckland, has received cable advice that his sister. Mrs Benjamin, eldest daughter of the late David Nathan, died in London on Thursday last.

Dr Bickerstcth, Canon of Canterbury Cathedral, who has been staying for a few days with Mr and the Misses Willis, left Cambridge on Thursday night for Christchurch, where he will attend the Church Congress. He is accompanied by his wife. Dr and Mrs Bickersteth expect to leave by the Makura on June 7th for England.

Appreciation of the services rendered to the Waikato Hospital district by Messrs J. B. Teasdale and H. E. Tristram, former members, was expressed by the Hospital Board at its meeting yesterday. A motion recording this appreciation was entered in the minutebook.

On Thursday the Governor-General, Lord Jellicoe, bade farewell to the officers and nuin of H.M.S. Chatham, who are shortly returning to England on the expiration of their period of service here; and litter unveiled the war memorial gates at the Takapuna school. Today their Excellencies will attend the opening meet of the Pakuranga Hunt at East Taniaki.