PERSONAL.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4593, 19 May 1922, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr P. Levi lias been re-elected chairman of the Victoria College Council. Mr P. Praser, M.P., for Wellington Central, who has heen indisposed for the past fortnight, is still confined to his home, and, acting under advice, will not venture out for another fortnight. ' Dr. R. J. Tillyard, biologist at the Cawthron Institute, Nelson, has presented Canterbury Museum with a named collection of the Neuroptera sections of. New Zealand insects. The news came from New York that Lady Shackleton was destitute. An intimate friend of Sir Ernest's, distressed by tlic news, cabled Home Wellington,' making inquiries, and was relieved to get a reply that the report was unfounded. Mr W. H. Reeves, headmaster of the Ohoka School, has accepted a similar position with tlio Cook Islands Administration at Nine. The Labour candidate for the Manawatu seat will he chosen at an early date. Those mentioned are Mr F. D. Whibley, 'of Foxtbn, who has been elected President of the Foxton branch of the Labour Parly, and Mr Moses Ayrton, national secretary of the party. Lieut.-Colonel d'Arcy Chaytor, of Blenheim, will leave New Zealand by the lonic on June 9 for Great Britain, where ho intends to resido for j some time. v

Mr W. C. Pearce, associate general secretary of the World's Sunday School Association, is at present on a world tour, and will arrive in Sydney from Singapore on May 26. He intends to spend eight weeks in Australia and New Zealand.

Mr Charles E. Sligo, leader-writer of the New .Zealand Herald, Auckland, has been appointed editor of the Brisbane Daily Mail, in succession to Mr W. Farmer Whyte, who is now editor of. the Sydney Daily Telegraph. . Sir Jamos Allen, High Commissioner for New Zealand, is to participate in the League of Nations financial conference at Geneva. The Hon. D. H. Guthrie, who has been acting-Minister of Hallways for some timo past, has been appointed Minister of Railways. A statement has been in circulation that Mr R. W. Smith, M.P., for Waimarino, intended to leave the United Progressive Liberal and Labour Party of which he has been a member for many years. The Leader of the Party (Mr. T. M. Wilford) states this is quite untrue. Earl Curzon is seriously ill of phlebitis, states a London cablegram,

Mr P. G. Lewis has been appointed head teacher of the Bulls District High School. The latest advice from Rangiora says Mr Frank,Glasgow, manager of the Union Bank, has not yet recovered consciousness from his serious fall off a ladder last week.