PERSONAL

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14768, 6 October 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL

Rev. S. Henderson, chairman of the South Auckland Methodist, district, was in Hamilton yesterday. Mr T. Johnson left Hamilton yesterday, to attend the nana Contest .at Thames. Mr T. Harlc Giles, Conciliation Commissioner, who is accompanied by Miss Giies, is in Hamilton. Mr L. Blrks, Government Chief Electrical Engineer, is at present in hospital in Adelaide, suffering from pneumonia. He recently went over to Australia on a holiday visit to relatives there. Colonel Ljster, a son of Sir T. '•"Biers Listejr, rrtarried Mrs George Sandys, a daughter of Mr Duncan Cameron, of Canterbury (New Zealand), at Holy Trinity Church, Brompton. —London cable. At a meeting of the Education Board yesterday Miss A. I. Wright was ap r pointed sole teacher at Rotokauri. The Waitoa Committee is to be consulted regarding the appointment of Mr J. Boswell as head teacher. Mr P. D. Mansell, who retired last week from the Telegraph Department, probably holds a record in that his service of 40 years has been continuously in the Christchurch office. Most of the period was as telegraph operator, but for the last few years Mr Mansell has been supervisor in the telephone exchange. The late Mr H. M. Wright, who was killed in Wellington on Tuesday evening, as the result of a motor cycling mishap, was well-known in Hamuton, where he was actively associated wltn swimming and other sports. He left here some months ago to take up a position with his insurance firm in Wellington.

Votes of condolence were passed by the Waikato A. and P. Association, today, wiih the relatives of the late Mr Cornelius Day (a former president of the Association). Mr C. Shaw (a past member of the committee), 'and Constable J. Cavanagh (a former member). Feeling references were made by members to the services rendered the Association in the past by each of these gentlemen, both financially, with exhibits and by personal, efforts, and it was generally_ agreed that their deaths were a distinct loss to the Association and the district.