PERSONAL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20028, 29 August 1939, Page 4

PERSONAL

Detective G. A. McWhirter, who has been a patient in a private hospital for several weeks is reported to be making favourable progress.

Mr. • and Mrs. George Williamson and Messrs. F. Benson, M. J. Sheehan and H. Roberts, who have been on a holiday visit to Australia, the Great Barrier Reef and Noumea, have arrived back in Wairoa. —Special. Mr. Graham Quinn,' former sprint champion of New Zealand, is visiting Gisborne Mr. Quinn, who represented New Zealand at the Empire Games in Sydney, is stationed in the Wellington district. At the Wellington competitions Miss Jean McLeod, .Cambridge, was awarded the Sir Harry Lauder Cup, to be held for one year by the competitor gaining most marks in the men’s and women’s Scottish folk song classes. The Rev. Father H. J. Hayward, of St Columiban’s Missionary Society, was a passenger by the Rangitane, which arrived at Auckland from 1 London. He is- a nephew of thie Hon. W. Hayward, M.L.C., of Christchurch, and willil 'spend!, a vacation in the Dominion before joining the missionary staff of his society in Korea.

A passenger by the Dominion Monarch, due .at Wellington on September a; will Ibe Mr. OH. Turner, London manager of the New Zealand Fruit Board. The purpose of his visit to New Zealand is connected, with the Government’s plans for taking over the Dominion’s apple and pear crops and paying the farmers a .guaranteed price. The appointment has been made to the teaching staff of the Wanganui Collegiate School of Mr. H. R. Percy, who is due to arrive at Auckland on September 4 from England. Mr. Percy, who is to teach science, mathematics and 1 geography at the school, is an Oxford) Rugby Blue, having won his place in the Oxford team as a freshman in 1936. Miss Rita Snowden, Auckland, who has been visiting Gisborne in the course of six months’ tour of the North Island, leaves to-morrow morning for Wairoa. Miss Snowden is making the trip in the .interests of the Methodist home and Maori missions and she ha? addressed meetings in the Bright street and suburban Methodist churches. Recently Miss Snowden concluded six months’ tour of the South Island.

Captain Sybil Wilson, second officer at the Edward Murphy Memorial Hospital. Gisborne, leaves on Thursday for Auckland to take up a position on the nursing staff of the Salvation Army maternity hospital in that centre. Captain Wilson has been stationed in Gisborne for more than three years, and her position here will be filled by Lieutenant Bernstein, of Bethany Hospital, Wellington.