PERSONAL

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 274, 20 December 1929, Page 7

PERSONAL

Miss YlavL Muir, Gisborne, is on a yisifc to ^Hastings. Mrs E. H. Orr, of Ashburton, is yisiting Napier at preseut. Mr F. R. Furminger lias returned jto Waipawa from a visit to Taupo. Mr Justice MacGregor will be leaving in Feliruary on a trip- to England. Mi*s B. Herbert returned to Napier tliis evcning from her home in Dannevirke. Mr and Mrs W. Henry Knight, oi Palmerston North, are on a visit to Napier. Sir Alexander and Lady iloberts, oi Wellington, were visitors to Napier ■yesterday. Miss Mortleman, of Morere, has returned home after spending the weekend in Napier. Sfr Herbert Samuel has resigned the ehairinanship of the British Liberal Party orgunisation. ( Mr and Mrs G. Martin, of Sydney, are visiting Napier and are "guests at the Masomc Hotel. Mr and Mrs L. Stephenson and family, of Napier, leave to-morrow for a hoiiday in Taupo. Mr and Mrs W. T. Neill, of Wellington, are visiting Napier, with M lsses M. and E. Neill. Mrs (Dr.)" E. Caro is visiting her daughter, Mrs Hamilton Gihner, at "Coonor," Dannevirke. Dr. and Mrs South. vho have been Spending a hoiiday at Taupo, returned Waipawa vcsterday. Mrs .Angus MaeDonald, Redcliffe road. Taradale, left this morning on a visit to Tokomaru Bay. Mrs M. Fosler, who has heen visit-] ing lier sister, Mrs W. Branson, Na-; pier, bas returned to Gisborne. Mr and Mrs A. Richardson, of Morere, who have heen spending a few i davs in Havelock North, have returned home Thb Bishop of Waiapu has appointed Arc-lideacon Broeklehurst _ to be Dean of Waiapu. He is to be installed next Sunday evening at 7 p.m. Licutenants S. I. Jonos. E. N. McL. Hogben and J. G. Nolan, of the Hawke's Bay Regiment, liave been promotcd to the rank of eaptains. The Rev. W. F. Drake has been appointed organiser of the General Diocesan Fund of the Diocese of "Waiapu. He will commenee his new duties towards the end of Januarv. , The cngagement is announeed of Gladvs Aileen, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs E. W. Watts, of Roslyn Terrace, Mount Alhert, to Hector Leslie, eldest son of Mr and Mrs R. B Parker, Waipukurau, Hawke's Bay. Mrs H. W. Giesen and Miss Giesen have returned to Dannevirke • from a visit to England. Mr Giesen, wno has heen in London on a hanking proposgl. returns to New Zealand at ihe end of this month. Nf r C. H. Warren has heen appointed bridge inspector of New Zealand "Railwavs for Hawke's Bay and Poverty Bay. Mr Warren, who is at presetit stationed at Frankton JuwtioTi. is a son of "Mr John Warren. of Wallac-e road, Waipukurau. Mrs Harriet Sophia Cobh. widow of the late NTr .T. F. Cohb, of Napier, and well known in the fown where for years slie earried on the business of art phoiographer. died on Wednesday at Otahuhu. in her 84th year. The deceaseo lady had been away from Napier for some years, but durhig her residence in the town she endeared herself to a wide circle of friends hy her many excellent qualities. Sl\e was particnlarlv active in the interests of the Methodist Church, in ihe nvelfare of which she took the most romplete interest. On Ihe death of her liusband she retired from the business, which she had earried on for a numher of years. into private life. ihe last years of which wero spent. with her daughter at Otahuhu. The news of her death will be received with sorrow by her many friends in Napier.