PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 July 1924, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Prince of Wales sails for New York aiid Canada on August 23, using a suite in the Berengaria built for the ex-Kaiser. Mr. Douglas Clement hag accepted the position as scoutmaster of the Eltham troop. Mr L. McPherson, of the Hawera Post Office staff, has received notice of his transfer to Wellington. Miss M. L. Gray this morning 'took up her duties as toll operator on the. Hawera telephone exchange. Miss Gray comes from Levin, at which office she has seen a number of vears of service.

Messrs. J. R.. Corrigan, 0. Hawken, R. Masters and S. Lye, M.P.’s, were passengers for Wellington by the mail train'this morning. Sergeants F. J. Corkill and P. W. \\ right have been appointed second lieutenants in the Ist Battalion Tara* naki Regiment. The death of Professor Alfred Marshall, M.A., the noted economist, aged 82, is announced in a London cable. He was professor of political ecohomv at Cambridge University from 1885 to 19>)8, and wrote many books on the principles of economics", some of which were translated into several languages. The following persons have been appointed or elected to be members of the Eltham Fire Board constituted under the Fire Brigades Act, 1908: Appointed l>v the Governor-General, Mr 'Thomas Stanners; elected by’ the fire insurance companies, Messrs Maurice Wynne Allom, Fred Honan, Sidney Owen Jones; elected by the Eltham Borough Council, Messrs Ira James Bridger, Thomas King, Edwin Hall Thomas.

Mr. D. W. Low, for many years headmaster of the College Street School. Palmerston North, resigned recently after forty years of conspicuous service in the teaching profession, and has retired into private life in that vices a comnlimentary social was held when Mr. E. V. West, on behalf of the residents of College Street and surrounding district, presented Mr. Low with a gold watch and chain, and Mrs. Low with a silver and Doulton cake stand, as a small token of esteem and personal regard, as well as appreciation of long and useful service. Mr. W. A. Swinburn is Mr. Low’s sue--cessor. •

An ■ old colonist, Mrs E. Baker, died last Thursday in Christchurch at the •age of 73 years. She came to New Zealand with her husband in the ship Wanganui in 1879. She had had charge of a girls’ boarding and day school at Hampstead, London, before her marriage, and through all her life she was greatly interested .in young people. While at Sydenham she was teacher of music to a large number of pupils. At the opening of the Highland Settlement her husband took up..land at Waiau, and there she lived 'until about five years ago. Two of Mrs Baker’s sons gave their lives for their country, aucl her only daughter died' some time ego. She leaves a husband and four sons, Alfred, who is Public Works engineer for the Auckland district, and Harold, Fred and Arthur, fanners at Gisborne, Hamilton and waiau respectively.