PERSONAL

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14769, 7 October 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr W. P. Johns, of Raglan, was a visitor to Hamilton to-day, and left in the afternoon for Auckland. Mr E. Walker, dairy farm instructor at Cambridge, has been appointed dairy instructor and grader at Auckland. Mr T. H. Patterson, H.D.A., of the Department of Agriculture, was in Hamilton yesterday. Mr T. Harlo Giles, Conciliation Commissioner for the Auckland district, left Hamilton for Rotorua to-day, accompanied by M'iss Giles. Colonel G. Mitchell, M.P., for Wellington South, was in Hamilton to-day. He spent the morning at the Ruakura Farm. He is on his way lo Rotorua, where he will undergo treatment for injuries sustained during the war. Mr T. A. Mitchell, for some years organist of the Birkenhead Methodist Choir, and Mr R. Burton, a well-known Auckland cricketer and bandsman, arrived tin Cambridge this week to take up their residence.

Mr P. G. Garnham, manager of the Bank of New South. Wales, left Hamilton last evening to take up his new duties in the inspectors’ department of the Bank in Wellington. Before leaving Mr Garnham was presented with a fine piece of silver plate by the staff of the Hamilton branch of the Bank.

A pleasant little gathering was held at the residence of Mr and Mrs O’Sullivan, Raglan, this week, when a few friends gathered to say ‘'goodbye” to Mr F. .McCullough, who has been representative of the Farmers’ Auctioneering Go., Ltd., in the Raglan district for some lime past, and who has been promoted elsewhere.

There was a representative attendance of between sixty and seventy settlers at Hie Domain Kiosk, To Aroha, to do honour lo Mr and I Mrs Gordon Dranslield, .who arc shortly leaving to take up their residence in Auckland. Mr Dranslield has been manager of the Tc Aroha branch of the Bank of Australasia for twelve years. The chairman (Mr Walters'), in a happy speech, prcsenlcd Mr Dransfield with a case of pipes, Mrs Dranslield with a tray (inscribed), egg service, pair of entree dishes, and coffee pot (ah in silver), and little Miss May Dranslield with a silver hacked hair brush, saying that these gifts were made on behalf of the clients of the Bank of Australasia, throughout the district.