PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 254, 17 February 1921, Page 5

PERSONAL.

A cablegram from London announces the death of Lady Rose Woigall, daughter of the Uth Earl of Westmorland.

Miss Ocily Tabor has returned to Palmerston North after an extended tour of the South Island.

Mr and Mrs .\. X. Barraud, of Palmerslon North, accompanied by Mrs E. N, Barraud (Mr A. X. Barraud's mother), arrived by ihe Rimutaka from London. The Row If. G. and Mrs Blackburne havo returned lo Ptilmeislon North after a holiday spent at Ihe French Pass and in t -I'litorburv.

At the meeting of the Wangamii Board of Education la.-t night the resignation of R. MiTCelvev from the potion of assistant teacher at Rangiotu was accepted.

Mr 0 11. Warden, formerly of Palmerslon North, has been elected president of the Wangamii branch of tin.' Teachers' Institute for the ensuing year.

Or. Stovve has written lo tlio Hospital Board, stating tint the injury he received recently to his foot will prevent him from resuming his duties in the X-ray department, for another fortnight. Misses M. A. Burgess, F. V. Bright and 11. [). Burnett have resigned their positions as sisters in the Palmerston North Hospital. 'l'lic resignations were received with regret ;|I (|||, morning's meeting of the Board. Of tin.' members of Parliament at present touring the East Coast of the North ls|alKl \lr R. MeCallum has had to return ~,,1,1,. through illness in li- family and Mr W. 11. field ha.- also been unable to complete the tour. Mr I. Bennett, of Wellington, has been elected a member of the Post and Telegraph Appeal Board, receiving 1844 votes a- against 1459 for Mr 11. 11. Brown, of Wangamii, and 317 for Mr 11. Shaw, of Christchurch.

At the annual meeting of the Wangamii branch of the Teacher.-' Institute the report referred lo the appointment of Mr I). W. Low. of Palmerston North, as vice-president of the New Zealand Educational Institute, and congratulated him upon his election. A cablegram from London reports the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Robert Crosse, aged 69 years, who had been sccretarv of the National Rifle Association since 1099. _ He served for 20 years in the aiinv, retiring with the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1892. .

At yesterday's meeting of the North Island Brass Band.-- Association at Dannevirke the following North

gentlemen were elected vice-presidents: Messrs •'• Bcii. E. It. B. Ilolben, I). I'ringle, C. Dunk, .1. W. Uutherfurd, and A J. Graham.

Mr James Christie, headmaster of the I.oburn School (Canterbury), who died last week, was for many years a journalist. He worked with the Wannare Times, Clutha Leader, Olago Daily Times, and Bruce Herald. At one Parliamentary election he unsuccessfully contested t 10 Mataura .-eat. fie served in the South African War. and was a prominent volunteer and rifleman. .Mr C T. Salmon has been presented vith a second memento of his secretaryship of the Science Congress in the form of an inscribed gold medal from the executive council of the Congress. The presentation was made by Mr Park at a meeting this week of the members of the local Philosophical Society. 'Die following were appointed to oflice for the ensuing year at a meeting of the New Zealand Federation of Drapers and Clothiers held at Duncdin yesterday: President. Mr Renuell (Auckland); vicepresident. Mr E. [I. Wylfs (Christchurch); member of Advisory Board, Mi' W. Simms (Wellington); auditor, Mr W. F. Nichols (Wellington).

Mr Justice Chapman is to retire from the Supreme Court Bench on March 4, the date on which he will a:tain the retiring age. Mr Justice Reed, who has been appointed to s ueccpd him. will take m> the duties on that date. Mr Justice Cooper will not retire, helore Marcli 31 at the earliest, so that it is not necessary yet to make an appointment to fill that vacancy. Lord Lee,' of Fareham, who has been appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, is 52 years of age and a Unionist. He was in the Armv before he entered politics, and from 1893 to 1898 was Professor of Strategy and Tactic, at the Royal Military College, Canada. He served as British Military Attache with the United States Army in the Spanish-American war of 1898. He entered-the House of Commons in 1900 as Mr Arthur Lee. and from 1903 to 1905 was Civil Loid of the Admiralty, lie rejoined the. Army in 1914, and served in Franco until October, 1915. when he was recalled to become Military Secretary to the Munitions Department. In February, 1917. lie was appointed Director-General of Food Production, and was raised to the peerago the following year. He became Minister for Agriculture in August, 1919. Lord Lee recently presented to the nation Chequers Court, for the use of the Prime Ministers of England a. u country ..eat.