PERSONAL

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIV, Issue 129, 5 November 1930, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr W. H. Rathbone, chairman of the local Hospital Board, accompanied by Mrs Rathbone, is at present spending a few days at Taupo.

During the absence of Constable J. Butler at the Supreme Court sitting at Napier, Constable F. B. Bennington, of the Napier Police Station is doing relieving duty at Waipukurau.

The engagement is announced of Janet Douglas, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs W. Graham, Ormond, to Harry, eldest son of Mrs and the late Mr H. M. Rathbone, “Abbotsford/' Waipawa.

The triends of Mr Jack Butler, son of Mr J. Butler, Herbert, WaTpukurau, will regret to learn that he is at present an inmate of the Waipukurau Public Hospital, where he underwent an operation on Monday night.

At Monday night’s meeting of the comittee of the Waipukurau District High School a letter was received from Mrs John Winlove, thanking the committee of the Waipukurau District sympathy in her sad bereavement

Mr B. Salter, an engineer at the Government electric sub-station at Tarndale, was badly burned about the hands and arms when he entered a burning wash-house yesterday morning.

Mr J. McCarthy, of the staff of the Bank of Australasia, Waipukurau, is at present spending a fortnight’s holiday at Auckland. Mr Hewitt Alexander, of the Bank’s Waipawa branch, is relieving at Waipukurau.

Early in March next it is the intention of Mr A. M. Mowlem, Stipendiary Magistrate, in Hawke’s Bay, to leave op an extended visit to Great Britain and the Continent. During the absence of Mr Mowlem, Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., of Wellington, will probably fill the vacancy.

Mr and Mrs Percy F. Wall, and the Misses Mary and Judith Wall, of Hatuma, who have been on a seven months’ tour of Glreat Britain returned to Waipukurau by the mail train yesterday afternon, and were welcomed home by a large gathering of friends. The family journeyed via Suez to Sydney by the Orontes, and thence to Wellington by the Makura. Mr and Mrs Wall and daughters are all well and state that although they have had a wonderful time, they are very pleased to be back home again safely.

The death of the Rev. George Brown, M.A., of Onehunga, Auckland, in his hundredth year, has severed the lasi remaining link with the earliest days of the, Presbyterian Church in New Zealand. The late Mr Brown, who would have reached his hundredth, birthday on lltih ’passed away peacefully yesterday afternoon. Born near Aberdeen in 1830, he arrived in Auckland by the ship Jura on the 15th January, 1860, being then 30 years of age, and was the first Presbyterian minister to be ordained in Auckland. —Press Association.