PERSONAL ITEMS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume LI, Issue 36, 9 December 1929, Page 2

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr L. ('. Walcott, teller of th local branch of tin* Bank of Nci Zealand, has resumed duty after hi holiday leave. Mr Hart, who | ia l)eon temporarily filling the positi.n returned to Wellington to-day. Mr J. W. Collins, secretary of th Department of Industry and (mu morce, lias been appointed Trade Com niLsioner for New Zealand in Canad and the United States. Mr and Mrs T. E. Colquhoun, o Otane. accompanied by Miss M. Litt| ;ind Mr 11. Priest, left by car n Saturday for Auckland, where Ml Colquhoun joins (hr* lonic en route fn Scotland, on a visit to her parent». The death took place at Wellingto yesterday of Mr J. J. Pratley, son c Mr Joseph Pratley, of Waipawa. Th deceased, who had reached the age n 39 years, was, before the war, in th employ of the Hawke’s Bay Eduq tion Board. On his return he was ri engaged by the Board, but his systei bad been so shattered by his exper cnees that he was unable to concei Irate on his work, and his conditio gradually become worse. The funen is to take place to-morrow aftemooi leaving the Methodist Church at 2.1 p.m.