PERSONAL

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 35, 13 March 1930, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr J. Moss is a Mellington visiter to Napier. Mr P. O. Doherty is a Wellington visitor to Napier. Mr Y. Patterson, of Waipawa, is visiting Wanganui. Mr R. A. Finlayson, of Auckland, is a visitor to Napier. £ Mr and Mrs J. A. McLean, of Porangahau, are visiting Napier. Mr and Mrs E. Liddell, of Hawera, are on a visit to Mrs L. Pratley, of Waipawa, Mr and Mrs W. J. Smeeton, of Auckland, are visiting Napier and are guests at the Masonic Hotel. Mrs A. 0. Roberts, Brewster street, Napier, left to-dav on a visit to Mrs Mason Chambers, Havelock North. Mr and Mrs G. Cooper, of Waipawa, left to-day for Auckland, where they will spend a holiday of some weeks' duration. Mrs Bosanko, who has been an inmate of the Dannevirke Hospital, has returned to her home and is making steady progress. Air Marshal _ Sir Edward Ellington has heen appointed principal aide de camp to the King in place of Air Ohief Marshal Sir John Solmond. Sir Montague Butler has left London en route for Bombay to retura to Nagpur for a second terin of five years as Governor of the Central Provinces. Sir M. Butler's reappointment for the full term is \mique. Fin.-Sec. Bro. P. J. S. George, of the Loyal Hastings Lodge, was elected Deputy Grand Master of the Hawke's Bay District of Oddfellows, Manchester TJnity, at yesterday's annual conference of delegates held at Clive. D.D.G.M. Bro. N. J. McKay, of the Abbotsford Lochee, Waipawa, was at yesterday's conference at Clive elected District Grand Master of the Hawke's Bay District of Oddfellows, Manchester TJnity. Mr J. E. CKane, of the Waipawa postal staff, has been transferred to Tikitiki, East Cape. Prior to his departure he was presented by the postmaster (Mr J. Bpss), on behalf of the staff, with a gold-mounted fountain pen. - Mr F. Eagle. president of the Waipawa Amteur Athletic Cluh, left for Wanganui to-day, where he will attend the New Zealand amateur championship meeting, which commences tomorrow. Captain Jonassen, who is comin^f to Hastings for the purpose of giving an illustration of a parachute drop and trapeze aerobatics from one 8of the Hawke's Bay Aero Club machines on the Longlands aerodrome on Saturday, arrives in Hastings to-morrow. The late Mr Ernest Phillip was buried yesterday at Waipawa, when a large number of mourners followed the funeral cortege to the Hadley Cemetery. The Eev. J. Pigott conducted a service at St. Peter's Ohurch and also the committal service at the graveside.

The Leader of the Opposition (the Bt. Hon. J. G. Coates) arrived in Dunedin from the south yesterday. He had private engagements during the day and in the evening addressed a meeting of supporters of the Reform Party. He will attend a meeting of the Dunedin executive of the party this afternoon and will leave for Oamaru to-morrow. Messrs R. Steere and B. A. Grensido wero the only Hawke's Bay Rugby players to represent New Zealand during last season, and, in addition, Messrs 0- Campbell and Steere wero selected for tbe North Island team, Mr Steere also played for the New Zealand Pakeha team against the Maoris. To these players the Rughy TJnion offers hearty congratulations in its annual report. Retiring Grand Master Bro. E. Hurdsfield, of tlie Loyal Ballarat Lodge, who relinquished the chair after the meeting at Clive yesterday, was the recipient of great kudos from delegates or the Hawke's Bay District, I.O.O.F., Manchester TJnity. Reprosentatives from all lodges were loud iti their praise of Bro. Hurdsfield's won-' derful enthusiasm in Oddfellowship, and a unanimous vote of thanks was passed with continued applause, expressmg appreciation for his ahle conduct of the grand master 's.office. Bro. Hurdsfield's name is to be placed ou the merit hoard of the disttict and he is to receive the past district grand luaster' s degree.