PERSONAL

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 116, 11 May 1932, Page 5

PERSONAL

Lady Hunter and Miss Betty Hunter, Wellington, are visiting Porangahau.

Miss Grosvenor, of Masterton, is on a visit to Waipukurau.

Air R. Haldane is on a holiday visit

to Onga Onga.

Air S. A. Coles, of Ohau, Horowhcnua, has been visiting old friends at

Onga Onga.

Airs L. Glenny, of Ruataniwha, who has been on a visit to Wellington, has returned to her home.

Miss Brewer, of Dannevirkc, is the guest of Air and Airs G. Coles, Onga Onga.

Airs C. F. Alcrccr, well-known sn musical circles, and family, left Danncvirke yesterday to reside in Napier.

Alisscs K. Coles, J. Alacfarlane and C. Russell are spending the school vacation with their* parents at Onga Onga.

Air and Airs W. Smith, of To Kuiti, are at present on a visit to Waipawa. Air Smith was formerly headmaster of the Waipawa District High School.

Aliss Hale, 8.A., of the staff of the secondary department of the Waipukurau District High School, has gone on a visit to Dunedin.

The engagement is announced of Lesley, only daughter of Air A. AV. Elliott, of “Dundee,’’ Waipukurau, to Samuel, eldest son of Air Hutton Peacock, of Mangatarata, Waipukurau.

The Prince of Wales was announced as having arranged to fly to Paris today to attend the funeral of President Doumer as representative of the King. He returns by air after the ceremony.

The British Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Ramsay MacDonald, continues to make good progress following the operation to his right eye, states a British fficial wireless message.

Mr H. J. Miller, a member of the Post and Telegraph staff, formerly of Waipawa, but now of Wellington, is

present on a visit to the former town, where he is renewing old friendships.

The Dannevirkc Chamber of Com-

merc-o has approved of the reappointment of Mr J. H. Absoluni, of Rissington, to represent the group in which the chamber is interested, on the Howard Estate Advisory Board for a further term. It was stated that Mr Absolom was the chamber’s original nominee. At the meeting of the Central Hawke’s Bay Rugby Sub-Union, the i Chairman (Mr B. L. Wallis) moved a resolution of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr G. Smales, who had i taken a keen and active interest in the game for many years and who had been a member of the Referees’ Association. The motion was carried in sil- ! once. General regret is felt throughout i Taranaki at the news that Mr AV. J. Penn, who for 47 years has been on the staff, and 36 years editor of the Taranaki Herald, has found it necessary, owing to ill-health, to accept six months’ leave of absence, at the close of which, at his own wish, he will retire. Since 1867, when the late Mr Henry AA r eston acquired the Herald, there have only been two editors —AV. H. J. Seffern, and Mr Penn. The mortal remains of the late Mr. William Henry Davey were laid at rest in the AA'aipukurau cemetery yesterday afternoon in the presence of a large assemblage of relatives and friends of the deceased -and his family circle. Many flcrmal tributes of respect were in evidence. The service at the graveside was impressively conducted by the Rev. Canon E. D. Rice. The pallbearers were the three sons of the deceased. Messrs Ricliard. Frank anil George Davey, two sons-in-law, Messrs Harold. Evans (Hastings) and A’. Hanven (AA’aipukurau), and. Air Geo. MacDonald (Mangatarata). A son 'of the late Mr and. Mrs Davey, John, served in the Great AA’ar. being called upon to make the supreme sacrifice. Treasured Possession His most treasured possession, said the Rev. H. K. Vickery, in the course of his sermon at St Matthew’s Church, Auckland, on Anzac Day. was a cross given to him on the battlefield by a Roman Catholic padre after the latter had been fatally wounded. “There are a lot of mv Noy> hwe.” said the dying padre: “do wl-at you can for them, and show lh?m th:'"cross.” Creeds went for little /■ the presence of death on the field of battle.