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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 681, 14 April 1923, Page 5

PERSONAL.

.Miss K Barry, superintendent of tlio F.ltham telephone exchange, has been promoted to the, position of exchange stqicnnlomlont at Now Plymouth. Mr George Winder, who was in business in Wellington for over thirty years, and v.as a member of the City Council from 1899 to 1907, is about lo leave for England, where he may reside permanently. Mr John M. Bishop, formerly in the Government Electrical Service at llnrahora, has boon appointed to an important position in the British General Electric Works in Sydney, lie is a Bachelor of Engineering. The members of the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Electrical Contractors Association mot at Christchurch this week to say farewell to Mr A. R. Blackwood, who is leaving lo take up duties at Man* gahao. After seven years’ residence in Christchurch, the Rev. A. C. and Mrs .Lawry left for Timaru this week. Coming to Christchurch in 1916 as president of the Methodist Conference, Mr Lawry (states the Press) was minister of the Rugby Street Church for five rears, and for two years has travelled as secretary of the centenary movement.

Captain John Taylor Marshall, late of tho 2nd Dragoon Guards, with which j_egimont lie served in .India, died in uellmgion this week. Be was a son o . Capuui James Marshall, of the Inmskilling Dragoons. Arriving in New Zealand m 1860, be joined the Armed Constabulary, ami later commanded the Nelson Military District. Subsequently he saw service m the South African Mar. Mr E P. Neale. M.A.. BUT, B.Cora., assistant to Professor Murphy. Professor ot Economies at Victoria L ujversify College, has received advice by cable that he has been awarded the degree ot Doctor nl Science for his thesis on the ‘'Demography of New Zealand," a treatise on the vital statistics of the Dominion. Dr. -xeide was educated at the Otago Boys High beliool and is a graduate of both Otago Lniveimiy and Victoria College.