PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 904, 28 December 1923, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr J. M. Hickson, of the healing mis- £ rrlve d in Auckland on Wednesday ironl Rotorua.. Htth. C. J. Parr. Minister of Education, was a passenger \o Auckland by the Ulimaroa from Sydney oh Wednesday. ; e^i . E., Gillespie, file Uewly-appbihted vicar of Pahiatbsi, and Mrs Gillespie, arrived m Wellington this week by the Athenic. Mr Edward'Gray arid a party of 30 Englisn tourists, who are making a trip around the world, arrived at Auckland on Wednesday by the Ulimuroa. T°fd Leverhiilme arrived at Auckland by Uie JNiagara from Vancouver yesterday. He goes to Wollinfiftoh to-day and then proceeds to Sydney. ,^- r J* Vigor Brown, who is in. Melbourne, and who sprained both ankles severely some 'l™! j4to, in a cable to a Napier resident stated that he is now able to get about on sticks. He expects to go to Sydney in two weeks time.

Mr Hubert Edwin Fairweather, who died in London on 29th October, was well-known in Christchurch and in Masterton, where hb was connected With the business of the Wellington Farmers’ Meat Company for a good many years. In 1917 lie went to London to act Us the company’s agent. On Saturday, December 29tb. Ilis Excellency the Governor-General will participate at Wellington in a cricket mClch between a t Government House team and a visiting team—the Nomads. On Monday, December 31st, ho will again play against the Nomads as a member of a. team chosen to represent the Navy, At the meeting of the executive of the Manawatu Bowling Centre this morning, a vote of sympathy was passed with Mr C. D. Fraser, a member of the executive,; who was recently operated on for appendicitis. A vote of congratulation on his recovery from illness was passed to Mr P. Larcomb, of the Northern Club.

Mr T. M. Wilford reached Sydney on December 17th by the steamer Montoro after his trip to the East. . Mr Wilford declined to be interviewed, as his wife, who accompanied him, became seriously ill on the return trip, and it was necessary for him to make arrangements for her immediate removal from the steamer to hospital for an operation.

An Ashburton telegram states that the Rev G. I Oiler, the Dominion Moderatorelect, who recently received a call to North East Valley, Dunedin, was the subject last night of a resolution at St. Andrew’s congregation, who appointed two delegates to meet the Presbytery and state that the conSation is unanimous in asking that Mr tt remain in his present charge.