PERSONAL.

Otaki Mail, 24 December 1919, Page 2

PERSONAL.

t j Xurse Lewis left to-day for the f Xorth for a few days’ sojourn. Hr Piri Ellison and Hiss Polly Taka, both of Waikanae, were married by the j Registrar, Otaki, on Thursday last, j while Hr ' John Lijtey and Hiss Alice , Hanning, wsll-ku,own residents of Pee* . fcakariks, were married by the registra., Otaki, this afternoon. Sister Queenie Muir, of Te Hero, . leaves on Tuesday next for Sydney, j After a short stay in Sydney she will t journey to Scotland, where' she will ■ stay for some little time. Sister i many friends will wish her a very plea- : sant time during her -stay abroad and a > safe return. ! The defeat of Sir Joseph Hard and Sir James Carroll make-- Sir James 1 Alien-the “father” of the new House of Ecpresentativcfe. The ' three were f elected on the same day, and have. >at 1 in Parliament for 33 sessions. Hert to j Sir James Allen the longest records of J public service are held, by Hr ARTssey and Sir Frederick Lang .'both elected to nine Parliaments), and Hr Henries and Dr.* Xewman (eight PerliasacnwHr Herbert Booth, third son of the late General Booth, of the Salvation Army, arrived in Xe'.'.' Zealand last week from the United - State* for the purpose of racking a six-months’ tour of the Dominion, during which he will be engaged in evangelical preaching He was formerly in charge of the Sal* ration Array in Xew Zealand and Australia, but 13 years ago he left that organisation*

Mr and Mrs C, H. G. Carpenter, of Hanoi, are among tie many visitors to this district. They are staying at Paraparaumu.

Mr L. H. Arcus, first assistant at

Lyall Bay State school, has been appointed headmaster at Ohau, in place of Mr Henderson, now inspector of Native schools.