PERSONAL ITEMS.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIII, Issue 3147, 6 December 1923, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Governor-General, Viscount Lord Jellicoe, celebrated his (s_th birthday yesterday.

General Richardson (Administrator of Samoa) will arrive in Auckland by the Tofua this evening. The death occurred at the Gato Pa, Tauranga, on Monday, of Mrs J. T. Hanabey, in her 77th year. Miss Sweet, qf Auckland, who is in Cambridge for a few weeks' holiday, on Monday last had the misfortune to fall from her bicycle while crossing the high level bridge, dislocating her collarbone.

Mrs Mortimer-Jones and Miss Willis acted as judges of the decorative section at the Hamilton Horticultural Society's summer show on Tuesday last, while Mr Frank Penn judged the vegetables. The Acting Prime Minister, Sir Francis Bell, left Wellington for Auckland yesterday. He will confer with the Administrator of Samoa on matters associated with the administration of the mandated territory.

The Ministerial Party, including the Hon. J. G. Coates (Minister for Railways and Public Works), Mr McVilly (General Manager for Railways), Messrs F. W. Furkctt (chairman Highways Board), Harris (District Traffic Mana» ger), Jones (Chief Railways Engineer), Balneavis, and several private secretaries and reporters, the party totalling a dozen in all, were guests at the Masinic Hotel during their brief stay at Cambridge on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning. Mrs Edward Allen (Cambridge) has taken her return passage by the Qrvieto which will leave London on November Ist (says the London correspondent Of the Herald). With her daughter Miss Muriel Allen, she has lately been in France, and she has made a special tour of the battlefield area and seen the. graves of many Xew Zealand soldiers. From some of these graves she is taking the seeds of plants, because she knows that such relics will be greatly appreciated by New Zealand mothers who will not themselves have the opportunity of visiting the military cemeteries in France. Miss Allen — whose professional name, by the way, is Joan Muirella—is remaining in England and is settling down at Belsize Park Gardens, Hamstead. She has just returned from a concert tour in Devonshire, and she is thinking of giving her first vocal recital in London in the spring.