PERSONAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3893, 10 January 1929, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr. I. Corn is on a short visit to Napier. , Mr. D. Ross, of Nelson has been on a brief visit to his brother, Mr. John Ross, of T'hynne Street, Foxton. The friends of Mrs. Bain, matron of All Saints’ Beach Home, will regret to learn that she is at present an inmate of a private hospital. Mr. AY. Roach of the staff of the local branch of the Bank of New Zealand was successful in the recent examinations, in passing a further two subjects, making five in all, for his banking- diploma. The engagement is announced of Mss Claire Dickinson of Palmerston North, to Mr. Roy Milieu of the Bank of N.Z., Ohura. Mr. Millen was acting-manager of the local bank during Mr. Poole’s absence in England. The esteem in Which Sergeant J. Power, of the Palmerston North Police force, is held by his comrades was demonstrated in a practical way on Tuesday afternoon, -when on the eve of his departure for Stratford on transfer, he was made the recipient of a canteen of cutlery and set of carvers. Two headmasters in the Auckland Education Board’s district, Air. E. Crosby, ALA., of the Vauxhall School, Devonport, and Air. H. D. " Prichard, AI;.A., of the Cambridge District High Scdiool, have been promoted to the insjfectorate. Air. Crosby, who has spent his whole teaching career in the Auckland district, lias been appointed an inspector at AVanganui. The death occurred at Greytown Hospital, on Tuesday afternoon, of Mrs. David Dockery, an old. and very highly respected settler of the district. Airs. Dockery was the second daughter of Air. and the late Samuel Haigh, of Greytgwn. She Avas 60 years of age. One daughter, Airs. Jales Wood, of Greytown, and a Ayidower, are left. A#s. Dockery ivas a patient suffered, ha- ■ ring been bedridden for months past.