PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 266, 29 October 1930, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr P. T. Bond, stationmaster at Napier, left by the mail train this morning for Wellington. Mr G. Stevens, of the stuff of the Borough Council, was taken homo yesterday suffering from an attack of pneumonia. Mr C. G. McGregor, telegraphist at Hastings Poet Office, has been transferred to Foxton, and will go forward at an early date. The engagement is announced of Olga Ollwyn, second daughter of Mrs and the late Harold Hunter, and Malcolm Hume, son of Mr and Mrs M. H. Strachan, Napier. Captain J. P. Foster, manno superiatendent of the Union Co., has resign ed from the company’s servie. Captain V. G. Webb, assistant marine superintendent, has been appointed acting superintendent. Mrs A. W. McDonald, the wellknown lady trainer at Awapuni, underwent an operation in a private hospital in Palmerston North last week. Inquiry made at the Hospital elicited the information that Mrs McDonald was making favourable progress. Flight-Lieutenant Lett, the newlyappointed instructor to the H.B. and East Coast Aero Club, left early this week for Taumarunui to finalise arrangements regarding his business there. He is expected to be back within the fortnight to take up instruction work again. Mr L. H. Briggs, M.So., of Hastings, who has been attached to the Dairy Research Institute at Massey Agricultural College for the past two years, and is the holder of a Sir James Gunson research scholarship, is leaving foi England next week in order to further pursue his researches into organic chemistry at Oxford University On Saturday, October 23, the staff of the College and Institute assembled to give him a farewell. In presenting him with a pips and tobacco pouch on behalf of the stuff. Dr. F. H. McDoweD referred to his capacity in the profession and wished him every success in hin studies. Mrs Sarah Tresizc, of Ashburton, to-3ay celebrated her 101st birthday, having been born at Croydon, England in 1829. With her first husband, Mr Alfred Blackburn, she landed at Lyttelton in June, 1803, in tho sailing vessel Metropolis, after a 101 day’s voyage. Mr Blackburn was appointed stationmaster at Templeton, in 1806, and afterwards was at Bakaia for 18 years. Mrs Thesizo maintains wonderful vitality and retains most of her faculties.—Press Association.