PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19475, 15 December 1925, Page 6

PERSONAL

1 Mr Fred H. Hamilton, Nelson, is stay* ing at Foster’s Hotel. J Dr. A. J. Crawford has returned from his holiday and has resumed practica. '• Mr W. Quinn, manager of the Kxian poi Woollen Co., Wellington, is a vial* tor to Wanganui, and is staying at Foster’s Hotel. i. At yesterday’s meeting of the I totara County Council Mr T. Dix waa t appointed to represent the Council r.t tho annual Engineers’ Conference at , Dunedin next year. An Auckland message announces tlia • death of Mrs Dorothy Haynes, aged 98. B Mrs Haynes arrived‘at Auckland from Staflordshiro 64 years ago and residel '■ nt Northcotc for 45 years, having kept II the hostelry there when the district w in its infancy. New arrivals at the Rutland Hotel - are Dr. Valintine, Messrs L. Spcech< ley, C. Johnson, C. S. Allen, F. <’rcwd< ® son, E. W. S. Hill (Wellington), H. J, Wigg (Auckland), Mr and Mrs Flansv '■ gan (Wellington), Mr and Mrs Munr< (Tauranga). The members of tho Wanganui Kota ry Club sprang a surprise on th< president, Mr. A. Doig, at their luncheon yesterday, presenting him witn a box of golf balls. Rotarian Eric Mercwether was the spokesman, and in conveying Christmas wishes to tho 1 president he made a humorous speech, 1 which caused much merriment. At the Wanganui Rotary Club’a luncheon yesterday President. A. Doig, on behalf of the directors and the club, 3 expressed the highest, appreciation of 3 tho work done during the year by the 1 honorary secretary, Kotarian A. R» 1 Donaldson, whoso systematic attention • to the club’s affairs and boundless enthusiasm were, he said, of the utmost * Value to the club and the movement. No club, ho was sure, could have a better secretary, anti tho members real--1 ised how fortunate they were. Amid 1 applause the president handed a cheque 1 to Mr. Donaldson, saying that it wa« » not meant as payment for his scrxico’A but simply as Un expression of apprecin" j tion of all he had done for the club. Mr. Donaldson expressed his thanks, * assuring tho members that it was a pleasure to be able to do something 10 J help Rotary.