PERSONAL.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 4315, 11 June 1921, Page 2

PERSONAL.

A London cable announces that l)r Nellas. a member oi the Mt. Everest ex litem, has died suddenly ol heart failure. Tie' Rev. A. r. Lawry intend,- conducting a campaign ill the llawke's Bay and .Mana»a.ii diMricls in aid "f tie- Methodist Centenry fund. Mr T. W. Kirk, Director "I Horticulture, retires from the .service ol the Agricultural Department on superannuation at the end ~] the present mouth.

Mr Alan C. Tvtheridgo, M.A.. lafe of the Chrislehureh Press stall', and well known a U'\v years, aK" in C'hristehurel) mnsical circles as a clever pianist, has recently received the appoint men! of Professor of English at tie- Tokio College of Commerce, in Japan.

Th c following officers have been elected to the Rongotoa branch of the Farmers' Union for the ensuing year: President, Mr H. E. Field-Ih'U-'c- ; vice-president, .Mr 11. Schriber; cont/ijittee, Messrs Knudson. A. K. De a r. Howl. W. Gloyn, I<\ Bur-

gess, X. If.' Knight, Hansom, Gardner,'Clayey., H. H, Hunt, Will and Bower; secretary ami treasurer, Mr E. L. Lees; auditor, .Mr U. Mafhesou; delegate, .Mr .1. (Uoyn. .Mr llerdman, manager of the Keilding gas work-, left for the Wairarapa Ihis morning, being called away suddenly on account of the glare illness, of his lather.