PERSONAL

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 316, 21 August 1924, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr Afassey .will visit. Levin on Monday next to lay the foundation stone of the new council buildings.

Rev. W. F. Stent, for 10 years vicar of the Anglican Church at Taihape, has taken up duty in a similar capacity in Plimmerton.

Mr P. Perry Sims, formerly-of the. Canadian Railways, has been appointed Assistant Chief Mechanical Engineer in the New Zealand Railways.

Mr Sydney Jacobs, ( director of .Joseph Nathan'and Co., Wellington, will he returning to London by the Ruahine about September (5.

Viscount Grey's successor in tne Liberal Leadership of the House of Lords will probably lie either Lord Benuchamp or Lord Buckmaster, states a London cable.

Mr S. H. Jonkinson, who had been investigating motor rail traction in Australia on behalf of the New Zealand Government, has returned to Wellington.

Captain J. T. Rolls, commander of the Niagara, was to have retired from the sea, on the vessel's arrival nt Sydney this- week. It is now announced that he will make another

voyage in the vessel

Mr G. K. Hamilton, organising teacher, who resided in Feilding, has been appointed headmaster ot llokowhitu School ,taking over his new duties after the .school recess, which commences to-morrow.

Mr L. S. Dawson, late of the R.M.S. Maunganui and more recently chief officer of the Mararoa, has joined the Government service, being now an Inspector of Machinery and Surveyor of Ships at Dunedin.

News has been received of the death of the Rev. T. N. Griffin, a well known Methodist minister/at his residence' at Papanui, Christchurch. Mr Griffin received his training for the ministry at Didsbury College, England, and came to New Zealand in 1884. He began his work at Paparoa, and from 1880 to 1889 was in flic Sandon and Feilding circuit. He concluded his active ministry Jat Dannevirke in 1.918, since when he has resided in ChristchurchV His wife predeceased him about a year ago.

Members of the Wanganui Education Board' were deeply shocked last evening when they learned that between the adjournment of the afternoon meeting and the hour for resumption in the evening the wife of their esteemed chairman, Mr W. A. Collins, has passed away at her home at Kai fwi, where she had resided for MO years. The deceased lady had been undergoing hospital treatment, following a severe operation, and was believed to he progressing towards recovery. Yesterday, however, she suffered a fatal relapse. Slie had a family of three sons and three'daughters: Mrs W. Parquhar, of Waihi; Mrs M. .f. Crawley, of Kaetihi ; Miss TCfsie Collins, of Kai fwi; Mr H. Collins, of Te Aroha; Mr C. W. Collins, of Kai fwi; and Kenneth, who is at tho Wellington Training College. The Education Board, after passing a vote of sympathy, adjourned until !)..'!() o'clock this morning as a mark of respect to tho deceased lady, and sympathy with the bereaved family.