PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1704, 18 December 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Miss Vera Mitchell, toaclier of yiohn. d’crilo and elocution, will probably take .p her residence In Palmerston North At the examinations at toe Hiwmuj School this month Batog^ Roy Frew secured proficiency certificates Mr F. G. Kimbell, manager' of toe Bank of Australasia, was tendered a farewell and presented with a purse of sovereigns by the citizens of Hawera on the eve of bis departure for Levin. , At the Pharmacy Board examinations held at Wellington last monto, the following candidates, froni Palmerston North wore successfult—Section A: ;Ivan Braxnwe L Section B: Edward Simpson, Ronald Munro Inez Mitchell, and Dorothy Ross Mr J; J. Virgo, who has been appointed world's representative of the Y.M.0.A., starts a new tour in 1920, beginning in South Africa, Thence he. goo? to the Malay States, Straits Settlements, Australia, India, and America. Mr C G. R. Jones, who is. retiring op superannuation from the, position ot typographers’ overseer at the Government Printfug Oltice in Wellington after 41 years connection with the Department was on Tuesday evening the recipient of a solid leather suit case, sot of razors, ami case of pipes from the typographical staff. The members of the Fciiding bar asscrnbled in the Courthouse yesterday morning for the purpose of giving a send off to Mr Hewitt, S.M., who is about to leave on a visit to the Old Country. H«'Worship, in returning thanks, stated that the niain object of . Ins-visit to England was to. ~, see his sou,, ~who. ns a. ~midshigiiiap/;in the British-Navy. ■■■ : The; death: is: unnounped; of .Mr Robert Ahcrne; a...we1l known- iNorth Canterbury resident in the early days of the - province. The late-Mr Aherno came to* New Zealand - in the, sixties;- For several years he_wa.s clerk to the Mandeville and Rangiora Road , Board, and later was on the literary stall of • the Lyttelton -Tunes,. and subsequently engaged in; journalism in Wellington and the West Coast. ■■ -•• • • : Major-General Sir Alfred, . Robin, K C M.G., accompanied by Captain Carland, A.D.C., will : leave Wellington op 1 ' Saturday for Auckland, on. route to Samoa, where the general is to act as Commissioner for a few months. Captain J, C. Hill, the new head of the Samoan police, with SubInspoctor (late chief detective) Boddam, and a force of police recruited in New Zealand,' will also leave Wellington on Saturday for Apia. A Wellington message states that Mr P. W. Robertson, M.A., M.Sc., ph.D., lecturer on chemistry at the Imperial College of Science and Technology’, South Kensington, has been appointed to succeed Professor Easterfield in the Chair of Chemistry at Victoria College. Mr Robertson, is the son of the Public Service Commissioner. He graduated in 1905 at Victoria College, and the same year was elected the Rhodes scholar. ■ , ~’. . A London cable states that. the French * War decorations inolvikle the- Chevalier Legion of Honour, conferred upon Colonel Robert Logan, of New Zealand. - ‘.J-