PERSONAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 September 1927, Page 5

PERSONAL.

A. London cable states that Sir Charles Batto has been elected Lord .Mayor of London.

An Amsterdam cable reports the death, of Professor Einthoven, Nobel prizewinner in 1924.

A London cable says Dr. R. P. S. Kalman, of Dunedin, has been appointed superintendent of the Helby Oak Hospi ta 1, Birmingha m.

Mr J. H. Kirk, president of the New Zealand Lawn Tenuis Association, who was also elected president of the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association, can still take a place in lirst-class tennis company, although he is in his 72nd year. At his own court at “Abberley,” he keeps fit in the winter, and he plays a good deal on the grass courts at the United Club in the summer.

Tho death occurred at Manakau on Monday night of Mrs. J. Robinson, a well-known and highly respected resident of that township. Deceased, who died suddenly from heart failure, was about during the day, and her sudden .death has naturally caused a. painful shock. Mrs. Robinson had lived for many years at Manakau, and leaves two sons and two daughters to mourn their loss. Mrs. Ford and Afiss Irma Bevan (daughters) reside in Timaru.

Mr C. R. J. Inder, who has been promoted from the staff of the Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch to be Clerk of the Court at Levin and-Otaki, arrived in Levin yesterday. He is a nephew of Mr , Inder, of this town. Mr R. T. McLean, who is under transfer to Paeroa and Tt Aroha, hands over his duties to Mr Inder to-morrow. The clerical business of the courts in this district has been carried out with efficiency and courtesy by Mr McLean, who will carry with him many wishes for success in his future sphere. Mr Inder comes with a thorough knowledge of court work, justifying the hope that his stay will be a prolonged one.

The death took place last week after a very brief illness of Major Wilmot C. Quinnell, M.R.C.V.S., M.R.S.L, a well-known resident of Wellington. Major Quinnell was for some years in the Government service and served in tho-.war in the Remount Department in England, and with the Royal Naval Division. On the break-up of the sth A uny, tlie late Major Quinnell, although over age, volunteered for service in France, and suffered shell shock in a Zeppelin raid in Bologne. From there he returned to England and was w.th the 53rd Highland Division in Glasgow until the middle of 1919, when he returned to Wellington and again comme i-ed private practice. . Major Quinnell leaves a widow, three sous, and a daughter.

Mr W. Lee Martin, who has won the Kaglan seat, has had a long career in Labour circles. He was sec-retary of the Painters’ Union at Wanganui from 1909 to 1912, four yeaLs a member of the Board of Governors of the Wanganui Technical College, seven years member and two years chairman of the Tninahcre Hoad Board, Labour candidate for the Hamilton seat at 1925 election, a member of the Workers’ Kducational Association, an executive member of the League of Nations Union, a member of the Auckland provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union, president of the Waikato Farmers’ Union (192 G and 1927), and a member of the Central Electric Power Board since its inception seven years ago. For the past fifteen years Mr Martin has been dairying at Matangi, Waikato. He is a share-holder of the New Zealand Cooperative Hairy Co., Ltd., and has for many years been an ardent advocate of extended co-operation among farmers. 'He is fifty-seven years of age. He was once an ollicer in the Salvation Army, and is now a Methodist local preacher.