PERSONAL

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2137, 16 February 1929, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Hon. J. O. Cobbo returned to Feilding by the Limited last night for the week-end. Mr Cqlibe will go hack to Wellington on Monday morn-

Father Blake, of Hastings, who has been appointed a Professor of Science on the staff of .St. Bede’s Ecclesiasti-

cal College, Christchurch, will leave to take up his new duties next Thursday.

A'Sydney cable reports the death of Mr \Y. G. .Conley, a director of the Sydney Morning Herald and formerly its general manager, after a. long illness. Deceased was born at Eton Yale, Queensland, in 1868 and leaves one sOn and one. daughter. Mr W. P. MeElhone, formerly Lord Mayor of Sydney, was a passengsi* from Sydney by tins jVlalieno this week. He is on a health trip to the Dominion. Mr MeElhone is great-

ly interested in cricket and was the founder of the Australian Board of Cricket Control.

It was announced yesterday that his Excellency the Governor-General had reappointed the following as members of the Advisory Council of the Department of Scientific itnd Industrial Research. Mr G. Shirteliffe (chairman). Professor H. G. Denham, Mr Quentin Donald, Professor John Malcolm, Mr Theodore Ring, Mr Charles Rhodes and Mr Hugh Yiokerman. At the conclusion of the W .E.A. lecture at Palmerston on Thursday evening the, chairman, Mr J. A. Nash, M.P., referred to the loss Palmerston would he sustaining in the impending departure of Mr. M. Cohen, “Many of us,” said Mr Nash, “will regret Iris going. It will be a great loss to Palmerston North and to New Zealand. Mr Cohen lias taken a great interest in the welfare of Palmerston North in the past and much) of the -town’s advancement has been due to Ills energy. Mr Co lien briefly replied, stating that in some ways he regretted leaving Palmerston : North. He, however, felt that he, would not leave a single enemy behind him and that was very gratifying.