PERSONAL

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 166, 15 August 1929, Page 7

PERSONAL

Dlr W. Lean, of Palmerston North, is visiting Napier. Mr G. Harwood, of Dunedin, is in Napier at present. Mr M. A. Conway, of Cheltenham, is on a visit to Napier. IMr J. Harris, of Auckland, is at present visiting Napier. Mrs G. Griffith, of Melbourne, is in Napier on a sliort visit. Mr and Mrs S. A. Lonquct, of "Wellington, are visiting Napier. Rev. Caiion Rice, of Waipukurau, is at present visiting Wellington. Mr and Mrs W. ( lark, of Gisborne, aie at present 011 a visit to Napier. Mr and Mrs K. M. Bi.-sell, of Los Angeles, are at present visiting Napier. IMr Cyril Keiglitley, Ihe Australian actor, died yesterday at Seattle. — Gable. Mr F. Holt, of Waipawa, lias been called to Napier owmg to tlie serious illness of his mother. IMi-s Rees Davis, oi" Hastings, was a visitor to Nganioka l'or the week-end and has returned to Hastings. Dr. F. W. B. South, of Waipawa, is at present indisposed as a result of tlie prevailing epidemic of influenza. Mrs Wills, of Ormondville, has returnecl home from a lioliday fcjient in Otaki at the college with her sun. Mrs E T. Biackwcll, of Taradale, who lias been ill witli tlie prevailing influenza, is making good progress towards recoverj*. IMiss Gladys -Jardine. of Napier, viVited New Zealand House, London, early in July in tho course of lier Englisli tour. Miss E. Strang, of Hastings, is at present 011 a visit to England. She was amongst the caller.s at New Zealand House during July. Mr Harold E. Edgley, of Napier, who is at present touring England, was amongst the callcrs at New Zealand House, London, during July. Mr S. A. Gibson, of the staff of the Pnblic Trust oflice. Napier, lias been tsnnsierred to Wellington. He takes up liis new duties 011 Septemher 2. The Rev. F. W. Whibley, of Ormondville, lias l'ound it necessary to enter the Ormondville Hospital for treatment. Hi.s many friends wish him a speedy recovery. Mr T. A. Hannali, of the staff of tlie Pubiie Trust office, lias been transferred to the Hastings liranch, to take up duties at tho coimnencement of next niontii. Mr Herbert Ilewitt, president of tlie Dannevirke Chamber of Conimerce, lias gone on a lioliday visit to Honolulu and will be absent from the Dominion ior about six weeks. Mrs A S. Carr left by this morning' s express train for her home in Porangahau, after spending a lioliday with her sister, 31rs J. . A. Engebretsen, Latham street, Napier. Mr Ainly Bark Larsen, a sawmiller, was found dead in the bush near Stillwater, "Westport, early this morning. Presumably the causc of death was heart failurc. — Press Association. IMr Leslic H. Reynolds, tlie wcllknown liarbour cngineer, passed through Napier last evening on his way to Nelson in response to a request from tlie Nelson Harbour Board. . The 'King lias approved the appointmcnt of M r Sydney Phillip M aterlow lately envoy extordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Addis Ahaba, to bc envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Sofia. Mr W. V. Fitzgenild, explorer, botanist and geolgist^ who began his miiiing eareer at tlie Dunedin School of Mines, died in Manding, Australia, yesterday. In later years lie liad been associate'd with geolgical expeditions to Nortli Wcst Australia and New Gunia. 3Ir W. IT. Fulford, of ihe staff of the Puhlio Trust office at Napier, has bgen transferred to Hastings. Mr Fulford will he greatly missed in swimming circles in Napier as he is at present secretary of the Te Awa Swimming Cluh. He takes up his new duties on Septemher 2. Miss Elsie Brewer, wlio for the past nine years has been a valued membcr of the staff of the Dannevirke South School, has been appointed solo teaeher if a comit!*y school , near "Wairoa, and takes up her new duties after the coming vacation.. Sho was also secretary of the Ivnox Winter Club, and her resignation of iliis oflte has been accepted witli rcgret: Lord Jellicoe. Sir JameS IMills. Mr A. Micliie, and 3Iajor Hely Pomids were among those who received the guests rit flie Royal Empire Society' s reception on june 2(5. Many New Zealanders were present. Tn the Empire conc-ert IMiss Rtella Afurray representecl New Zealand and her singing was the outstanding success of the excellent programme. Slie wa.s applauded most enthu-iastically. Tlie late Mrs P. J- Ryan, of Ormondville, was laid to her la*t rest on Monday. The fnnernl left the Englisli Chuch for tlie Ormondville cemetery, the coffin heing followed to the graveside by a large concourse of friends and relations, testifving to tbe esteem in v.diich the deceased lady was held; The Rev. F. AY. AVhibley officiated at the graveside. The pall-hearers were Messrs J. Ellingham. E. J. Collins. W. Cliadwick, H. Baines, A. Healey and Major Clifton. IMiss Ann Pedersen and Miss Murphy, of Napier, wlio have arrived in Fhgland, are to nttend tlie world eonference on New 1'ducation to be held at Klsinore from August S to 21. Tlie theme of tbe eonferenee will be "Ths New Psycbnlogy and tbe Curriculum." Tlie^e will be a great gatbeving of piopoers in education. Leadors and workers will meot togetlier to excbange views and, even more important, to make personal contacts with eolleagues who, in other lands, are facing problems similar to their own.