PERSONAL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 24 December 1927, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The King and with their little granddaughter. Princess Elizabeth, left London on Thursday for Sandringham, where Christmas will be spent in the customary way of making it a Loyal Family party. Mr and Mrs J. Harte and son, of Pungarehu, Taranaki, are on a visit to Masterton, and are staying, with Mrs Harte’s mother, Mrs A. Stempa, Upper Plain. A Sydney cable states that the Premier (Mr Bavin) intends spending eral weeks holiday at his birth plac New Zealand, commencing in the middle of January, The engagement is announced of Amelia (Milly) Rose, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs R. S. Adams, Villa street, Masterton, to Lionel Graham, third son of Mr and Mrs F. Favor, of Cornwall street, Masterton. * Master Desmond Minnett, of Masterton, who gained fourth place in a scholarship given by the Marist Brothers, open to boys from Catholic schools throughout the Dominion, has been awarded a supplementary scholarship on account of the excellent marks obtained. This scholarship • will entitle him to a two years free-place at St. Patrick's College. Miss Ina Stockley, the New Zealand 100 yards ladies’ swimming champion, has accepted an invitation from the New South Wales Ladies’ Amateur Swimming Association to again vLdt Australia in February with Miss Kaw r leen Miller, of Dunedin. In 1926 Miss Stockley won the 100 yards free-stylo and back-stroke championships of Australia, establishing a new record for the latter event.

The visit to Rio de Janeiro of Mr Lloyd George, who, accompanied by his wife, daughter, son, and daughter-in-law, left- London on Wednesday, is a private one, undertaken primarily for the health of Dame Margaret Lloyd George. The statesman has a few public engagements in Brazil, but’ will be the guest at a dinner given by the 'Brazilian Foreign Minister, and will attend a meeting of thq British Chamber of Commerce at Rio (says a British official wireless message). A distinguished visitor to New Zealand at the present time is the Hon. Joseph Spencer Kennard, L.H.D., 8.C.L., Litt.D. Hr Kennard, who is a world-wide traveller'and the author of several works of note, is much interested in the development of the British Dominions in the Pacific, and was accorded an interview with the RAue Minister on Thursday, when phases of the matter were discussed. Mrs Kennard, who is visiting th« Dominion with her husband, is recognised as one of America’s foremost painters of miniatures.