PERSONAL

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 21 May 1920, Page 2

PERSONAL

Tlie Prince or Wale- will farewell New Zealand from Lyttelton on Hatur day (to morrow). The infant child of Mi and ilOil licrt Judd, of Ilatigiotu (into of Otaki) died oh Wednesday last. Mr Harold Taylor has sold his Tc lloro property (lately occupied by Mi s. MaeKenzie) to Mr J. G. Harkness of Wellington. Mr W T . 51. Fi' Sd. member for the district, has written to the Minister for Public Health, making emphatic pro lost against any attempt to close th*. Otaki Hospital. Mr H. M. ,J. N'icoi-on. of Otaki, has f-een created a justice ot the peace. This is, apparently, the only appointment made, although Otaki is very short of justices, and several names of suitable persons were submitted to the a utborities.

Mr Emmett, Otaki. ha- disposed of sns farm at Te Koto road, Otaki Kailv. ay. comprising i-4 acre.-:. to Mr B. ii. Slack, of Git.". Oroua, who will shortly take possession of the farm. The price paid chow* that farms iit -rfcidistrict have increased in value very materially during the past year or two. Sir Joseph Ward left Wellington yesterday by the To/it a for Great Britain, via America. Speaking to a reporter. J Sir Joseph emphatically denied that he I vra» leaving with intention- of entering politics in the Old Country, but added that circumstances might alt'-r cases. At the conclusion of the wedding celebrated at the Manakau Jfoihodi.-t Church on Wednesday afternoon la 4 .*, the officiating minister fliev. W. G. Slade, 11. A.) presented Mr and Mr- Sira with a Bible, in accordance with the time-honoured custom, this being the first marriage ceremony to be celebrated in the church. On Thursday evening Hi-. Kora! Highness the Prince of Wales bestowed , the accolade on Sir George Fenwick, 1 upon whom a knighthood was conferred j last August. The ceremony was per- J formed at the Dunedin Club, in the j presence of Sir William Eraser. Dr. O, j H. Scholeileld. and Mr E. li. Morgan. Mr A. Leigh Hunt, laic general roar, ager XZ Farmer-' Co-op. Di.-rribntiug Co.. Ltd., has been elected president of the Wellington Centra! Chamber of Commerce (the second largest Chamber of Commerce is the Dominion) in succession to Mr C. M. Luke. who has re ' tired after holding the cfSce for siz yecn gi ti.