PERSONAL.

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 423, 27 December 1924, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr F. W. Bevm, of the Bank ct New Zealand, Wanganui, has been appointed manager • f the Panintua branch, Mr A. E. Lowe, bead gardener to Sir Heaton Rhodes, at Ot.iuua. Christchurch, is dead. He was widely known as the foremost authority on hybridisation of narcissi. The Rev. J. L. Kayll, of Stratford, has been elected a member oi the Taranaki Board of Education to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation/ of Mr R. Masters, M.P. Professor David has retired from the Chair of Geology and Physical Geography at Sydney University, after 33 years' service. Professor Cotton succeeds him.

Air C. P. Hainsworth, manager of the New Zealand and South Seas jC.\T.ibition,to bo held at Dunedin next year, has arrived at Dunedin, accompanied by Mrs Hainsworth. and ...eir son.

Mr T. W. H. Grosland, the author, died in poverty in a London tenement, after a Jong illness, from (Consumption. His best known books are "The Unspeakable Scot." "The Wild Irishman," and "Taffy was a Welshman."

Lieut.-Col. B, C. Fre-yberg, Y.C., C.M.G., D. 5.0.. of the Grenadier Guards, formerly of Wellington, entertained some of the All Blacks' party at dinner during the week oi the London Counties match. General Sir lan Hamilton was also present. Sir Lirrdo and Lady Fergusson have returned to Dunedin from America after throe months' absence from New .Zealand. During .his trip Sir Linda not only attended the American Medical Conference, but visited every hospital and medical college of repute in Canada and U.S.A.

Mr Thomas Stout, who died at North-east Valley, Dunedin, -recently, was a brother of Sir Robert Stout. He would have completed the 74th year of his age on Christ mas Eve. He was born at Lerwick, in the Shetland Islands, and at an early age entered the post office there urtdcr his cousin, the c!-iSf postmaster of Shetland. He came to New Zealand at the beginning oi 1876. He was iu the railway-tele-graph service for some time, and then in' the law office of Messrs Sievwright and Stout. He was later in the Deeds Registry Office, where he served for just over 40 years, retiring on superannuation about three years ago.