PERSONAL

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 47, 27 March 1930, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr and Mrs J. Holden, of Makotuku, are visiting Napier. Mr and Mrs J. A. Miles, of Wellington, are on a visit to Napier. Mrs Herbert White, of Napier, is spending a few days in Waipukurau. Mrs C. E. T. Woods, of Waipawa, left yesterday on a holiday visit to Wellington. Constable B. D. Bowick, of Christchurch, toolc over duties in Hastings ■j^iis morning. - Mr F. W. Reid and Miss F. Reid, of Maitland, N.S.W., are visiting NaIpier and are guests at the Masonic Hotel. Mr H. Mexted, of Norsewood, left a few days ago with his brother by car for a visit to Whakatane, Bay of Plenty. , Mr G. F. Morley, of Napier ; was elected a feilow at the last meeting of the Council of the Royal Empire Society in London. t , Dr Lyttleton, former beadmaster of Haileybury and Eton, was knocked down by a motor car in London and taken injured to a hospital. He is 74 years of age. Mr and Mrs Hamilton Gilmer, "Coonoor," Dannevirke, are spending a short holiday in Hastings? They are the guests of Mrs Gilmer's aunt, Mrs G. C. Tripe. Mr Alan Hole, of Hatpma, Waipukurau, left yesterday .for Wellington, en route for England._ Mr Hole intends to jointhe Royal Air Force on arrival. a Mr/ Mrs and Miss Cohr left Hastings to-day by car for Wellington, where Mrs and Miss Cohr will embark on the Remuera on an eight months' visit to the Old Country. Mr Cohr will leave later in the month. Mr A. King, of Eskdale, left Napier this morning for Wellington, en route for a six months' tour of England. He has been granted lea've of absenc© by the Hawke's Bay Education Board from his duties as a member of that bcdy. Miss Agne» Stops (England), who has come out '-to organise institute work in New Zealand, arrived in Hastings last evening. She is the guest of Mrs A. Turner Williams, Havelock North, and will make Mrs Williams' home her headquarters while • totiring 'in both islands, Mrs H. M. Rathbone and Miss Rathbone left Waipawa yesterday for Wellington, en route to Sydney, where they join the Orontes. for. England, where they propose making an extensive tour. A large number _ of friends gatliered at the railway station to give them a ronsing send-off. Rear-Admiral Byrd. and several of his party have definitely. arranged to travel to Panama by _ the Corinthic, which will leave Wellington on April 9 for Southampton and London via the Panama Canal. Those leaving with the explorer on the Shaw-Savill liner will include Mr Russell Owen, Mr C. Lofgren and Mr and Mrs Lloyd Berkner. The question as to whether a father is liable to pay damages sustained through the collision of his car, driven by liis daughter, with another car, is to be decided by the Court of Appeal. Right of appeal was yesterday granted to a New Plymouth resident in this position by Mr Justice Reed in the Supreme Court at New Plymouth, with permission to take the case to the Conrt of Appeal. Mr E. D. Andrews, the New Zealand amateur la,wn tennis and racquets player, who is at present living in England, will shortly leave for the East on a business trip. He nvill be absent from England for some months, but he hopes to retum in timo to get some pract-ice before the Wimbledon meeting. Mr Andrews recently became honorary secretary of the Cqvered Cciurts Club at Dtdwich, and it is said he will he greatly missed by Winter tennis players as-well as by the squash players of the Bath Cluh's cup team. Their Excellencies the 'Governor-Gen-eral (Lord Bledisloe) and Lady Bledisloe will pay their first official 'visit to Auckland next week, arriving at Auckland on Tuosday morning, April 1, and returning to Wellington on Thursday morning, April 3. Their Excellencies will then visit Christchurch. They will arrive from Wellington on Tuesday, April 8, and will leave for Dunedin by the first erpress on Thursday, April 10. The Governor-General presided yesterday morfiing at a meeting of the Executive Council at, parliament House. ,At the conclusion of the meeting His Excellency presented Mr A. A. Luekham, Resident Commissioner at the Island of Niue, with his badge as Commander of the Civil Division of the Order of the British Empire, the honour which His Majesty the King conferred upop Mr Tuckliam on the occasion of the New Year.