PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 930, 31 January 1924, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr E. J. M.P., is seriously ill tt Christchurch, suffering - from the effects )[ a motor accident. Mr E. Fairbrother has been appointed temporary headmaster of the new Hokoivhitu School. , Constable McGilligan, who has been sta;ioned in Wanganui for over 17 years, will ihortly transfer to Christchurch. Mr T. B. Williams, Mayor of Wanganui, who has been laid up for some time past, Is making steady progress towards recovery. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Institute at Wellington this week was attended by Mr A. Efiott as representative of the Manawatu Philosophical Society. Mr. and Mrs E. Wray, of Palmerston. North, are at present in Wellington, prior to leaving for an extended visit to Australia and England. Mr T. Gunion, Mayor of Temuka, and Mrs Gunion and Mr and Mrs Cartwright, of Temuka, have been on an extensive motoring tour of the North Island. Mr William Newlove, one of the oldest residents of Eltham and a prominent supporter of the Salvation Army, has died at the age of 79 years. The Prime Minister has accepted an invitation to be the chief guest and speaker at a New Zealand Club luncheon in the Wellington Town Hall to-morrow. The Revs. H. C. Foreman, M.A., superintendent of the Central Methodist Mission, Sydney, and'S. Varcoe Cooke, of Burwood, Sydney, who have been on a short visit to Palmerston North, proceeded south yesterday. A Pres* Association telegram from Wellington states that the Hector medal was awarded by the New Zealand Institute yesterday to Mr Donald Petrie, M.A., of Auckland, formerly chief inspector of schools, Auckland. Amongst the arrivals at Wellington from Australia by the Maunganui this week was the Right Rev. Monsignor Byrne, V.G., Ipswich, Queensland. Monsignor Byrne has arrived for the jubilee celebrations of Arohbishop Redwood, and is the guest of Archdeacon Devoy, Island Bay. Mr F. W. Furkert, engineer-in-chief of the Public Works Department, who was operated on in a private hospital in Gisborne for appendicitis, is making good progress, but it is not yet possible to say when he will be in a fit state to travel to Wellington. Mr J. M. Hickson is at present on a motor holiday trip in the South Island. Mr Hickson will visit Queenstown, and from there he will go on.to Mount Cook. Afterwards, he will go to Timaru to visit relatives for a few days. Then he will leave on his return to London. At a special meeting of the Wairarapa Power Board, held at Carterton on Monday night, the resignation of Mr P. 11. Smith, secretary-manager, who has accepted a similar position with the Wanganui-Kan-gitikei Power Board, was accepted with regret. Mr Smith has also resigned from the positon of town clerk of Carterton. The Napier Citizens’ Committee and Citizens’ Band have appointed Lieutenant Seymour con Juetor of the newly-formed Citizens’ Band. He was for five years conductor of the Third Auckland Mounted Rifles Band of 55 performers, and for six months wa3 conductor of the Returned Soldiers’ Orchestra in Auckland, and at present is conductor of the Nelson Mounted Rifles Band. Mr C. J. Parker, who died at Gisborne this week at the age of 84 vears, came to New Zealand many years ago, and after following the gold rush to Gabriel’s Gully and elsewhere and seeing service with the volunteers in the conflicts against the Maoris, went to Gisborne over 30 years ago. He is survived by a large family of nine sons, five daughters. 60 grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren, all of whom live in the North lßland v There arrived in Wellington by the Maheno on Tuesday the Earl of Cassilis. heir of the Marquis of Ailsa (one of the 16 Peers of Scotland), the descendant of a famous line of Scottish chieftains, and one of the world’s leading Freemasons, who_ is completing a tour of Australia and New Zealand purely in the interests of Scottish Royal Arch Masonry. It is his intention to visit as many of the New Zealand lodges of the Chapter as is possible in the time at his disposal.