PERSONAL ITEMS.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 2650, 20 July 1926, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The death of a well-known Hamilton resident occurred on Sunday in the person of Mrs Jane Johnstone Whyte, aged 74 years. Mr J. Maughan Barnett, Auckland city organist, has. returned after a health recruiting trip abroad, spent chiefly in England and America.

Mr A. ,T. Stallworthy, of Auckland, a prominent officer of the Auckland Band of Hope Union, is on a visit to Cambridge, and will be here for a few days.

The Prime Minister has been confined to bed for several days through influenza. He was not expected to be able to take his place in the House of Representatives to-day.

A London correspondent states that Miss B. M. Sinclair ( of Hamilton), Mr S. T. Partoin (of Morrinsvillc), and Misses E. M. and A. E. Noon ( of Cambridge) were among recent callers at the High Commissioner’s office.

A well-known resident of New Plymouth, Mr Dennis Ryan, celebrated his .10.1st birthday on Saturday last. He is still enjoying excellent health and takes a keen interest in local affairs.

The Mayor (Mr G-. Baildon) and President (Mr Andrew Menzies) wore elected patron and president respectively of the Auckland Competitions Society at the annual meeting last evening.

Mr Culford Bell, of Wellington, is to act as judge of the elocutionary items at the, forthcoming Auckland Competitions Society’s festival. Negotiations are being made with Mr Robert Page, of Wellington, and Mr W. Paget Gale, of Dunedin, for the musical section'. ■ , ; - ip!'

Messrs W. $. Milburn (Town Clerk) and L. M. Morrin left by the Main Trunk express for Wellington last night, in order to join the deputation to wait on the Minister for Lands on Wednesday next in connection with the conservation of the Maungatautari range as a climatic reserve. While in Wellington those two gentlemen will also attend to important borough business. The death has occurred at Ractihi of Mrs Catherine Punch, at the ago of 84 years. Deceased, who came out to New Zealand as a young girl from Scotland, was one of the ..first Europeans to settle in the district. In those days Ractihi was just a bush clearing. Mrs Punch was an indefatigable worked in, church affairs, and it was largely due to her efforts that the first Roman Catholic Church was built in Ractihi.