PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1708, 24 December 1919, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Prior to leaving for Taihapc, Mr R. 11. Pavitt was presented by his lato staff with u gold-mounted fountain pea Mr Jacob Mandor; of Now' Plymouth, an engine-driver in the railway service, is retiring on superannuation after 26 years’ service.

Mr Frederick Stands, who practised the profession of > architect in Christchurch for many years, is dead, aged 85. He came out l from Homo 60 years ago.

Mr Donald Robertson, Public Sendee Commissioner, will retire from the service us edrly in the New Year as possible. So far his successor has not been named.

In‘a private letter to a friend in Eltham, Hir Thomas Mackenzie, the High Commissioner, writes: —“I have decided to stay in England rather than venture upon tho uncertain field of colonial politics.”

General Branny oil Booth and staff officers are expected to ‘arrive’in New Zealand in April. General Booth is coming out via Vancouver, and will land at Auckland. Ho will visit the chief Salvation Army centres in Now Zealand, going as far aa Invercargill, ami return to Wellington for conference and other business. The General will leave Wellington on an official visit to Australia.

Many people in scientific circles in Now Zealand will bo interested to learn that tho Rev. Bro. Ignatius Godfried, for some years well known in Wellington as an astronomer and scientist, who read a number of papers before the Philosophical Society of New Zealand, and left the Dominion .sometiling over a year ago for tho Oaklands University, Washington, D.C., was, on October 28 last, ordained priest by lib Eminence Cardinal Gibbons,

George Allport (Secretary of Marino) ttnd Captain George Gordon Smith (Superintendent of Mercantile Marino) retired from office yesterday, and were farewelled in Wellington by the Hon. Wr H. Ilerries, Minister of Marine, in the presence of a largo gathering of members of the staff and representatives of tho branches, each departing officer being presented with a wallet of notes in token of tho esteem in which ho was hold by his confreres. The Rev. S. F, Hunter M.A., 8.D., of St. Paul’s, Oamaru, lias been awarded by tho Melbourne College of Divinity First Class Honours' in the Honours B.D. group of “Biblical and Historical Theology.’

The examination covered six papers, one o each on “ The History of Doctrine to A.D. 787,” “■ The -Theology of Thomas Aquinas,” “The Theology of Allbrecht Riiachl,” ‘‘Old Testament and Jewish Theology,” and two papers on New "Testament Theology (one general, the other on a particular subject). Air Hunter secured an average of 90 per cent, over the six papers.