PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 432, 24 June 1922, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr “Pussyfoot" Johnson hits sailed from -Now York for England en route to New Zealand, Mr B. Contis leaves Pnlmet'-ion North to-day on a holiday trip to Honolulu and Vancouver. Mr J. K. Hornblow has been appointed inspector of the Round Bush Scenic Reserve, Foxton. Mr Justice Sim, having been granted a years leave of absence, lias lelt for England, accompanied by Mrs Sim, A colonist of over 81 years’ standing in New Zealand, Mrs G. \\. Woon, died at Pnpakura this week, aged 90 years. At the meeting of the Wellington Board of Education this week the appointment of Miss M, D. Anderson ns teacher at Kopularoa was approved. Mr J, R. Anderson, of Victoria, British ! olumbia, has been tonring New Zealand. He will leave for Vancouver by the Niagara next week. Mr 11. J. Blow, New Zealand Government agent at Sydney, who lias been on holiday in New Zealand, left this week on hi- return to Sydney. According to a Cincinnati telegram, Mr S. Gompers has been re-elected president of , the Labour Federation unopposed, this being his 41st year in office. Mr Hector William McKenzie, who died at Whangarei on Thursday, was one of the early pioneers of the north and at one time was actively connected with public iife there. The Rev. Daniel Marnvelas, of Melbourne, is visiting the Dominion. He is a member of the Greek Church, and is paying a pastoral visit to his countrymen in New Zealand. Cable advice lias been meivod _ that Mr J. O’Donovan, lately Commissioner of Police, who left for the Old Country on May 10, arrived in England last week. From there Mr O’Donovan proceeds on a visit to Ireland. The friends of Airs If. McGregor .will regret to hear of the death of her sister, Mrs May Davies, who passed away at the Coast Hospital, Sydney, on June 21. Deceased was the widow of the late Harry Davies, and second daughter of Mr and Mrs Fraser, of Oriental Bay. Wellington. A former minister of the Coneref atium;! Church .it Raglan, the Re • t hristbpher Anderson Lyon, died a few day- ago. aged seventy-three years Mr L.vop reined from active ministry a number ot .wars. ago. He w«» afterwards in charge of a native school for a period. Mr Joint Jessup, who died at T_akatrmi. near Auckland, recently, aged 8o years, served as a youth in the Navy, later being aide-de-camp to Admired Mdmoud-ou on HALS. Aragon and me,king -evoral voyage.- to South Africa in cemnriioii with the suppression of the slave traffic. The late Mr R. E. Grey, of Foxton. who passed away this week, was horn at. Louth, England, and arrived in New Zealand in 1879. He spent a short time in Ashhurst prior to proceeding to Foxton in 1880. He followed the calling of a landscape gardener, and the Government plantations i.n l lie Himalangi road were planted by him,, and many spots beautified under, his supervision. He leaves a widow, a sister (Mrs Swift, of Palmerston North) and two nieces, Mesdames Oxley and Spring, of Foxton, to mourn their loss. Mr and Mrs J, Thompson, lomiorly of Palmerston North, who have been in China fog the past nine years, have returned to New ’Zealand on furlough, accompanied by I heir two little son's, and are staying with relatives in Auckland. Mr and Alt's t hump son were, prior to entering the t hina Inland Mission, in which they have worked mainly at Ningpo, Che-Kiang province, members of the Cuba Street Methodist Church. Mr Thompson has had experience of motor engineering- and in this connection has done much useful work in his. mission station. They are expected to visit Palmerston North at an early dale.