PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 100, 14 April 1930, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. Leslie Foddy, of the firm of Foddy and to., Hastings, leaves this week' tor a trip to the Old Country.

A London cable reports the death of W. A. Barry, the ex-Engliah champion sculler, and father of Bert Barry.

Mr. W. Dinwiddie was to-day reappointed by the Hawke’s Bay County Council as its representative on the Napier High School Board.

Mis May Holman, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, has been appointed substitute delegate to the League of Nations conference.

On March 2ndE the death occurred at Bournemouth, England, of Mr. Hervey Slnden, formerly of Hawko’s Bay, and Forest Edge. Sway. He was 86 years of age.

Miss Ivy Fippard, of Hastings, who is on the eve of her departure for England, has been granted a bonus by the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club in recognition of her services in the secretary’s office.

Mrs. and Mis Gilmour (Otane) aie spending the winter at Mentone, citer a pleasant time in London, the South of England, add Paris (states a London correspondent). They will tour in Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and Holland before returning to England in tho early summer. Mr John Matthew King, formerly Commissioner of Taxes, died at his residence in Takapuna, Auckland, on Saturday morning, at tho age of 68. The late Mr King came of a wellknown Wellington family. He was appointed Commissioner of Taxes in January, 1913, and retired in April, 1914.

The death of Mra, Hilda Alice Chaney, which occurred at Auckland on Saturday evening after a long illness, will be learned by her many friends in Hastings with deep regret. Mrs. Chaney, who was only 32 years of age, who ths second daughter of Mr. and Mrs R, Stanley, of Hastings, where she was well known and esteemed for her personal character and for her work with Miss Luckie during the war. She married Mr. William George Chaney about ten years ago, and with him she went to Poverty Bay and thence to Auckland, where she lived for the past eighteen months. She leaves a husband and three young sons to-mourn her death, and with them sincere sympathy is expressed. The interment will take place at Auckland.

A prominent figure in the Waiiarapa, the Bt. Rev Monsignor John McKenna, died in Masterton last night. Born in Newpark. Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1860, he was educated at Knccktopher Seminary and St. John’s College, Waterford, being ordained to the priesthood on March 11, 1883. He ararrived in Now Zealand in June of the same year as assistant priest, at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Wellington. He was assistant priest in Rangiora for a time and returned to St. Mary’s. In November, 1887. the Monsignor was appointed to the charge of St. Patrick’s Parish, Masterton, which was of a considerably larger size than at present, and in the service of his church he performed notable pioneering work under arduous conditions. In another seven years he would have completed his jubilee year in charge of the parish.