PERSONAL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 48, Issue 14610, 8 March 1922, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr T. N. Brodriek, 0.8. E., is retiring shortly from his position as Undersecretary of Lands. ! Martin Elgar (Featlicrston) and Dr. O. J. Eeid have been elected JPsllows of the Royal Colonial Instigate.

Mr 3. 11. Fowler, Audit Inspector, 'Wellington, has been appointed Chief Clerk and Chief Inspector of the Audit JUepurtmen'.

Mews was received in Napier at the week-end of the death in London of Mrs VV. C. Robison (formerly Mrs o. M. Cariile). Miss M. Emed, of the Pahiatua District High School, has. been elected to the Pahiatua branch at the Annual conference of the Educational Jrstiutte.

A London cable states that the following appointments are officially announced: Sir Ernest Pollock, Attorney- • General, and Mr. Leslie Scott, K.C., Jgclicitor-General A Lendon cable states that Bryn

jKiehards, a famous Welsh full-back for Pontypridd, was tackling an opponent .on Saturday when he fractured his spine. He died in hospital on Sunday. Mr. Marsh-Boberts, who was one of Wie tutors of the W.E.A. in the Manawatu last winter, has been appointed lecturer at Broken Hill, New South Wales, by the University Senate at Sydney.

The death is reported from Darga--yille of Mr Wilfred F. Ward, who was Ijorn at Nelson in 1847, and who practised for a number of years as surveyor in the South Island. Mr B. S. Warwick, headmaster of the Maugamutu School, lias been elected president of the Pahiatua branch of ihe New Zealand Educational Institute, and Miss E. F. Grierson secretary.

A rumour is current in Eltham that Mr H. D. Forsyth intends to contest the Egmont seat against Mr O. J. Mawken at the next election, but the Argus eaunot vouch for tlio authenticity of the information. The friends of Mrs 0. N. C. Pragbcll, whio has been confined to her home -through indisposition during the past week, will be pleased to learn that her is now showing a marked, improvement. The appointment of Mr H. B. Climic, ,®£ Hastings, an engineer to the Waixarapa Electric .Power Board at a salary ‘of £IOOO per annum, was conii.rmed •at a special meeting of the ■koard held yesterday. An Auckland telegram states that 41ie I equests of the late Mr. Thomas (Peacock include £7OO to the foreign missions of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand and £7OO to the home aniasions (northern section) of the <di.vreli.

The wedding of Mr Charles Haines, Wellington, to Miss Maud EgJiu, of Jtoslyn, Dunedin, was solemnised yesterday at the home of the bride, when ■the Rev. Charles Dallaston (formerly of Wellington) officiated. Mr Walter JEglin (Wellington) gave the bride .away, and her sister, Miss Agnes EgJin, was the bridesmaid. Mr Albert Abbott was the best man. According to a Press Association message from London, received last .eventing the Daily Chronicle states that Since Louis Mountbatten will shortly jfrv Edwina' Ashley, heiress of the e Sir Ernest Cassell. She is now .staying with the Viceroy of India. Sir JBniest Cassell died in September. 1921, -anti left a fortune of six million jponuds. The death occurred recently in a jLomlou hospital of Mr Joseph Green, formerly a resident of Wellington. The .Hate Mr Green was a good elocutionist a,nd amateur actor, and was an active participant in the Charlie’s Aunt •Chib during his residence in Wellington. He left for England some time .ago on a visit to his people. Death "was the result of a severe told. Iko Atte Mr. Green was well-known in Masf.cjrton.

Tennis players will greatly regret -ibe death of Mr Fred E. Laishley, ■which. occurred on Sunday at the a o o 43. He was one of the most pronu:ment players in New Zealand up to abr>ai ten years ago, and was a most popular man. In 1904 he was a member ot the New Zealand representative team which went to New South Wales, and defeated Doust 7—3, 6 —3, and Wright jjj 9 5_7 6—4. The year before •IhAt he and’ 11. A. Parker had won the «aMk]es championship of New Zear I-tif Mr Laishley was connected for many years with the management of. tennis in New Zealand. A well-known judge of lawn tennis •declares that Mdlle. S. Jung, the young 'French girl, is giving every promise ot -developing into a second Suzanne LenMen. She has a fine free'overhead service of great pace, a perfect backhand drive, and high and low volleys. She ia at present too' fond of the drop .stroke, and is inclined to be heavy on i,, feet, but greater experience ot .match play will eradicate these defects. Her style is classical. Mdlle. j un ,/ won the last tournament at LeauShe partnered A. Wallis Myers, -gif* w ?]l known writer on tennis, at ■situ Cannes Club tournament. At a meeting of the Levin Chamber Commerce last week, a hearty vote of thanks was accorded Mr A. C. Holms /formerly of the Wnirarapo) ‘‘for the tunable a :d energetic manner in which he had carried out the press publicity in connection with the New Zealand Industries Week in Levin,” it a considered that the success of dertaking was largely duo to his nee, rendered an an honorary capacity. The Mayor (Mr D. W. Mathtacn) referred in eulogistic terms to fjto work carried out by Mr. Holms. Mr Holms is active at present as a member Of the sub-committee promoting the Levin-Greatford deviation prodromal as an alternative to the authorisff.| railwav deviation at Palmerston North, unofficially estimated to cost '.upwards of £500,000. <