PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 169, 4 August 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

-.-..f *- . - \ - - »• - - Mr J, Stickland, oi Hastings, was sworn in as a justice of the peace by Mr J. Miiler, S.M., at the Hastings iVlagistratc's Court this morning. The Bev. Lionel B. Fletcher arrived at Wellington by the Limited express yesterday and left for England by the Rangitihi. The Bt. Bev. J. A. Kempthorne, former Bishop of Lichfield, is expected to visit New Zealand this month. Bishop Kempthorne, wlio reeently vaeated the onerous see of Lichfield, will arrive about August 23, and is expected tp stay in Auckland for three or four days. Dr. C. G. Bomaine Wright, of Hastings, vvIiq has been seriuusly ill witli pneumpnia and is a patient at the Bqyston Hospital, Hastings, was reported this afternoon to have shown a decided improv-ement during the last two dqys. Sir Herbpvt How biggin, C.M-G., whq resigned the positiqn of Inspeetor-Gen-eral of Police in Geylon at the beginning qf fhis year, will arrive at Wellington fropi Sydney hy the Wanganella to-day, He has been in Melbourne and Sydney making nuofficial inqniries into police methods, Mr, T. B. Wright, brauch manager. of Messrs, Wright, Stepkpnson and C.o., Ltd,, at Wanganui, has been transferred to establish the company's interests iu Melbourne. He vyas the rpeipient of a silver tea serviee reeently at a gatherjng qf abqnt 40 of tlie eQmpai)y3s clients in the tovvu. He will be suceeded by Mr. S. J. Sievers. The Bt. Bev. F. A- Bennett, Bishop of Aqtearpa, visited Auckland at the v,'eek-end to, supp.qrt the annual appeal on behMf the Maori Mission in the Auckland Diocese, The bishop preached tQ lnrge congregations in St. Mark 's Ohnrch, Bemuera, in the morning, and in St. Mary's Cathedral in the eveniqg. In the afternoon ho visited the Queen Victoria Sehqol for Maori Girls and conducted a serviee in the native church at Orakei, which was filled. He returned to Hastings yesterday.