PERSONAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4533, 28 February 1923, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Dr. Leo de Castro, son of Mr G. Pde Castro, of Paeroa, has bpen appointed resident house-surgeon at the Wellington Public Hospital, and left last evening to take up his new duties. The Rev, W. J. Enticott has been ai:i>oi!.tv'l to the King Country rural mission. He will be replaced in Paeroa l<y t’ e Rev. A. E‘. Jefferson. Mr H. Nixon, retiring editor of our Thames contemporary, is Ijeing tendered a farewell social this evening at Turua. Mr Max D. King, one of Taranaki’s earliest settlers, died at Manurewa 0.1 Sunday. The Rev. William Richard Woolley, formerly of Thames, died on Saturday at Onehunga. The deceased was born at Birmingham in 1850', and arrived in New Zealand in 1883. Mr T. F. Cheeseman, who has been secretaiy of the Auckland Institute for the past fifty years, has received a cheque' for £lOO as a token of the council’s appreciation. Dr. and Mrs Ewart Brown, who are leaving ht ap early date for England, were on Saturday entertained at a garden party, where the Mayor (Mr D. Donaldson), on behalf of the citizens of Waihi, presented the doctor with a travelling trunk, a wallet, and a fountain pen. Mrs Brown was also the recipient of a suit case. Eulogistic references were made to the valuable services rendered by Dr. Brown while .he was medical superintendent of the Waihi Hospital, t,o the reputation he had gained as a result. Many residents of Paeroa will regret Dr. Brown s departure.