PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 342, 9 March 1922, Page 5

PERSONAL.

A Paris cablegram announces the dead from inline). /a of Laurenlzs, the well ktuiwi tennis player. Mr J. •). Virgo, national organiser ol the Y.M.C.A., left Palmerston North this morning for Wellington, on his way tc Nelson. A Press Association telegram from Tiinarn reports the death of Mr John Willed Well, a well-known meat exporter and sheep breeder. Mr W. Hides, late suitiomnasler at Pit-ton, who has been appointed to a similar position in Palmerston North, leaves I'icton on ‘March 14. Mr Drake, clerk to the Hunterville Town Board, has been appointed clerk to the Now Lynn down Board. I here were 64 applicants for the position. On the recommendation of the matron Probationer-nurse ( oehietto has been ;ippointed to the permanent nursing staff of the Pahiurston North Hospital. Miss Kathleen Doogne has resigned her position i |S probationer-nurse on the stall of the Palmerston North Hospital, Nurse E. I . Maefarlane has also tendered her resignation. Matron Lookson, ot the \\ hangaroi Hospital, was operated upon for appendicitis last week, and is reported to be progressing favourably. Mr John McNeil, who had resided at. Rnep-o -Day for 29 years, passed away suddenly at- KiinboUon yesterday morning, aged 58 years, Mr McNeil, who is survived by his widow, was for 15 years a, member of die Kiwif.ca County Council. Bishop ( harlo.- E. Locke. American delegate to (ho Methodist Centenary Conference, who visited Palmerston North on Tuesday, left by the Alain Trunk express yesterday morning for Wellington. He leaves the city to-night for Lyttelton. The Minister of Public Works (Don. J. C. Coates) continued his lour of the South Island yesterday, arriving last night at Karamea after travelling on horseback aaid on foot for many miles. The Minister was entertained at a banquet at Karamea last night. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, Minister of Defence, announced at Christchurch last night (hat whatever his own inclinations were towards a political holiday, he has, in view of the many requests made by the electors, definitely decided to contest the Ellesmere goat at the general election. A motion of condolence was passed to Air A, Love, of Dunedin, at; this morning’s mooting of the New Zealand Poultry Association, in the loss of his mother. The chairman (Mr S. H. Scott) stated that Air Love hud been a vice-president of the association, and an active worker in its .interests. Air David Gardiner, a well known reddent. of Sherry River, passed away at the. Nelson Hospital last week, tit the age of 84 years. The late Air Gardiner was for many years engaged in (he sluicing claims of the Otago goldfields, and sonic- thirty years ag > removed to Sherry River, and was at time* very successful in sluicing lotgold on properly owned by Sherry residents. Air Gardiner in his youth was an Aberdeen Uni versify student,. The death occurred recently, at Ids residence, Tangitetrorin, near Dargaville, of Mr Wilfred F. Ward, a. well-known resident of the Northern Wairoa district. He lived for some years in the South, Being a member of the Southland County Council and chairman for a, term, president of the Gore Agricultural and Pastoral Society, member of the Southland Hospital Board, and the Alatuura Licensing Comjpittec. He later took up oheepfariiiing tit Tangiteroria, where be remained for the fast seven years. He leaves s widow and a grown-up family. At the December sitting. Mr T, Arthur - Johnston, of M ellingloh, was. elected an j Assoc. M. Inst U.K., London. Mr Johnston is at present on the, engineering staff of the Public Works Department, Alangahao, and | ;is a Bachelor of Engineering of the I niver- j sity of Edinburgh. Me is a son of Mr John Johnston, one of New Zealand s ear!) ; settlers. Another sun. Dr. W. H. Johnston. . TLA. (N.Z.), ALD.. E.R.C.S., Edtn., who - served from the second week throughout the war in the R.A.M.U., was recently appointed medical administrator and chief surgeon of the Highbury, Ufeulme and Sorrento Orthopaedic Hospitals, Birmingham. Mi Peter Virtue, who died m Auckland this week, was a native of Maryborough, Victoria, and came to New Zealand as a < boy of 10 vears, the family settling on the i West Coast of the South Island. He entered the service of , the Bank of New Zealand, being for many years attached < io the Christchurch branch of the bank as < manager of the assets department. He later < went to Wellington, and 24 vears ago was i transferred to the Auckland branch of the bank A few months later bo severed Ins i connection with Ihe bank and formed a syndicate to take over the Auckland and North Auckland flour mi ls, and he bad - been manager of the Northern Roller Mm- j mg Company even since.