Personal

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 12, 13 January 1948, Page 4

Personal

Sergeant M. Farrell’s condition is reported to have improved.

Mr and Mrs H. C. Wing and family of Te Awamutu are on holiday at Ohope Beach.

Mr C. R. Coates, of Whakatane, has left to spend his annual holidays at Hamilton.

Mr A. Betts and family of Orakau, Te Awamutu, are on holiday at Ohope Beach.

Mr and Mrs H. G. Warren, Whakatane, left yesterday on a week’s holiday trip embracing East Coast bays from Waihau to Gisborne.

Mr G. Parker, chairman of the Te Awamutu College Board, accompanied by his family, is spending a short holiday at Ohope.

On Saturday, Miss Kathrine Mary Wilson, of Whakatane, was married to Mr Anthony Bonner Hick, of Auckland, at St. George’s Church, Whakatane. The service was performed by the Reverend J. C. J. Wilson; Miss Alcye Grant sang the “Consecration.” The reception was held at the Ohope Hostel.

Rev. F. J. Climo, Minister of the Methodist Church, Whakatane, began a fortnight’s holiday yesterday, when he and his family left for Waipukurau. During' Mr Climo’s absence services will be- conducted by Revs. H. C. Dixon, Glen Eden, and L. R. M. Gilmore, Takapuna, both of whom are spending vacations here.

Mr Hubert Carter, the New. Zealand tenor, is expected to. visit the Dominion next April when he will probably give recitals in conjunction with his wife, Elizabeth Page, the English pianist.

The second son of Viscount Bledisloe, a former Governor-General of New Zealand, the Hon. H. C. H. Bathurst, accompanied by his wife, is expected to arrive by flying-boat from Australia today on a visit to New Zealand.

Captain Cecil Aubrey Mansergh, Captain of the aircraft-carrier Implacable, who commanded H.M.N.Z.S. Achilles for a period during the Second World War, when the cruiser was on service in the Pacific, has been promoted rear-admiral.

Lieutenant-Colonel H. C. H. Robertson, Commander-in-Chief of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force, will leave by air on Saturday for Australia to confer with the Australian Government and Service heads. Later, General Robertson will visit New Zealand at the invitation of the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser. ’ "•- ••

Mrs Isabel Clark, of Hamilton Road, Herne Bay, widow of Captain Hugh Clark, and mother of Mrs F. W. Doidge, of Tauranga, died on Tuesday in her 91st year. Mrs Clark was born in Newfoundland and came to New Zealand in 1866 when her father, Captain William. Foote, sailed here in his own ship, the barque Clara, with his wife and family of ten.