Personal

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 249, 20 October 1937, Page 6

Personal

Messrs D. McGregor and R. Drummond have been added to the executive of the Wanganui Tourist and Development League.

Friends of Mr Lawrence Sheehy, youngest son of the late Mr John Sheehy and Mrs Sheehy, of Mosston, will regret to learn of his death in the Lewisham Hospital, Sydney, ox. September 15,

Mr R. Sherlock, late of Wanganui, has been spending a short holiday in the city with his parents prior to his departure for Trentham, where he is to join the Royal Air Force. Priox to his new appointment he was employed at the Petone railway shops.

Mr. G. H. Sinclair, of the Waverley staff of the Bank of Australasia, who for the past five months has been relieving in the South Island, has received notice of transfer to the bank’s Invercargill branch. Mr. J. D. Leckie, Upper Hutt, is to succeed Mr Sinclair at Waverley, and will take up his new duties on October 27.

At the first executive meeting of the Wanganui Rowing Association held last evening Mr. E. J. Crotty, honorary secretary of the Union Boating Club, was appointed delegate to represent the association at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association on October 28.

A motion of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr. J. F. Holloway was passed at last evening’s meeting of the Wanganui City Council. The Mayor (Mr. W. J. Rogers) said that the late Mr. Holloway was at one time town clerk to and a member of the Wanganui East Borough Council. Subsequently he served for a considerable time as a councillor on the Wanganui Borough Council.

The death has occurred at Wanganui of Mr. John Robson. He was a very old member of the Masonic Order, being attached to Lodge Tongariro E.C., Wanganui, and a member of the Druids’ Lodge, in which he once held the office of’past arch. A family of four sons and three daughters survive him. They are Messrs. John Robson (Christchurch) Albert Robson (New Plymouth), Austin Robson (Nelson), Roderick Robson (Wanganui), and Mesdames E Emanuel, C. G. Webster (Wanganui)’ and M. Chisholm (Auckland). ’