PERSONAL

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20729, 13 February 1939, Page 6

PERSONAL

■Mr S. L. Vale was elected a member of the Hamilton Rotary Club to-day. Mr L. Pickering, formerly a mejnber of the Napier Rotary Club, was elected a member of the Hamilton Rotary Club to-day. The Rev. F. R. Rawle, precentor at Christchurch Cathedral since 1926, will preach his last sermon there next Sunday and will leave shortly to live in retirement in the North Island. Lord Dormer, of the Life Guards, arrived in Auckland from London by the Rangitiki yesterday. He will spend a year in New Zealand as an aide-de-camp to the Governor-General, Viscount Galway. Messrs A. V. Wood (Hastings), J. R. Soper, M. F. Cook (Wellington), H. Eva (New Plymouth), C. S. Findlay (Napier), W. Kislipg, E. F. Keene, B. Moodie, J. Smith (Auckland) and A. J. Hughes (Wanganui) are at the Hamilton Hotel. Bather’s Foot Cut While bathing In the Waikato River near the Hamilton motor camp yesterday morning a woman received a severe cut on the foot, the top of one toe being nearly cut off and a big gash being made on the sole of the loot. Bandages and iodine from campers were used to apply first-aid and a number of other swimmers pulled out broken bottles, glasses and numerous tins with jagged edges apparently carelessly thrown in by campers. Tasman Air Service That her husband, Captain J. W. Burgess, who commanded the Imperial Airways flying-boat, Centaunus on the pioneer flight to New Zealand and back a little over a year ago, will fly the first, of the irans-Tasman aircraft from England, was stated by Mrs Burgess, who arrived at Auckland from London yesterday by the Rangitiki with her little son, to take up residence in Auckland. Mrs Burgess was not able to say when the flight would be made, but mentioned that some weeks before she left England her husband had ceased to command machines on the Singapore and African mail routes, and had been engaged entirely on preliminary organising work for the trans-Tasman service. Big doings to-morrow! lialferown day at Hooker and Kingston. Ltd., on Tuesday, to-morrow, and what a scuffle there will be! Turn to page 9 and read the details of this big shopping event. A pocketful of half-crowns will buy a bagful of bargains to-morrow! Be early for first choice, for if former similar events are any criterion, things will be rapidly sold —Your purchase may be for 2s 6d. ss. 7s 6d. 10s, up fo £l. but in every case you may rest assured that we have set a price that leaves you no choice but to buy! Hooker and Kingston, Ltd.—tomorrow! Half-crown Day.**