PERSONAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4408, 30 January 1930, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mrs. IT. Berry and family have returned home after being' absent • m holiday.

Mrs. Mohekey, of Thymic Street, has returned from a holiday in Knikohe, Bay of Islands. Mr. IT. lTohinson, who lias been -pending a holiday with his mother, Mrs. I<’. Robinson, of Thynne St., leturued to AVairon, on Monday. Mr. and Airs. 11.I 1 . A. Mason and family have returned to Foxton after spending a holiday at the loe.nl easide.

Mr. W. E. Barber left Foxton this morning for Bedding - where he will oOiriatr as judge at the A. and E. Show.

Air. L. I. Walden, telegraphist, from tin 1 relieving staff of the fi.P.O'., 1 Wlellingtotn, commenced duty at the local office this morning.

The Mayor (Air. AT. E. Perreau) returned to Foxton yesterday after a visit to Wellington. Airs. Perrenu is still ..in the C’itv.

Mr. 11. Burr, who has been spending a holiday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Burr, of Novhitoii Road, returns to Pokako, Alain Trunk, on Saturday.

The friends of Air W. Wilson, who has been an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital for some weeks now will lx* pleased to learn that lie is making good progress towards recovery.

The possibility of his retirement within the next 12 months was inferred by the .Director-!leneral of Health {'Dr. T. IT. A. Valintine) in -.peaking at the annual eonferenee of the New Zealand Sanitary Inspectors in Christchurch.

The ex-Kaiser recently celebrated his seventy-lirst birthday, the eleventh in exile. The black and white Iloheny.ollern banner floated Ironi a turret, lint there was an absence of hist year’s festive joy, when Wilhelm was surrounded by nearly the whole Imperial family. Since then death has claimed a 1. rot her and sister.

The friends of Air. P. Dorset, of Russell Street, who has been an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital for some time as a result of Mood poisoning, will regret to learn (hat he has been compelled to undergo an operation for (lie amputation of bis linger. He is, liowi ver, reported to he making safisIa dory progress towards recovery.

Christchurch message announces the death yesterday of Rev. Wi!(iam Train Todd, aged 07, a retinal Presbyterian minister. Rev. Todd collapsed on the footpath in Papanui road while standing waiting for a tram and died almost immediately. He had been in usual health recently. He was Imru at Oamaru, the >.,m of the Rev. A. B. Todd and entered I lie ministry of the Presbyterian Church in 1907, retiring in 1028.