PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1038, 10 June 1924, Page 5

PERSONAL

To-daY ia Ih© 18th anniversary of the death of the Rt. Hon. R. J. Seddon, Prime Minister''bf New Zealand. Cabled advice has been received that Dr. -Cyril A. King, late of Christchurch Hospital, has been successful in obtaining his F.R.C.S., London.

The many friends of Mr T. C. Bowden, of 142 Featherston "street, will regret to learn that he has been obliged to enter hospital for medical treatment. The Rev. A. A. Murray, of the United Evangelical Church, after a stay of two months in this town, returned to Auckland yesterday. Mr A.*M. Mowlem, S.M.. has received advice that his son Ray, who is a student at the OtagO Medical School, has passed the whole of the first section of the final examination for his medical degree.

Mr E. H. Lawford, manager of tho Union Bank of, Australia, Ltd., Gisborne, has been transferred to the Napier branch. Mr G. McLeod succeeds Mr Lawford at Gisborne.

Mr J. E. Menzies, engineer to the Waimea County Council, Nelson, was appointed engineer to the Kairanga County Council at to-day's meeting of that body. Mr P. R. Higgins, a well-known Sydney barrister and one of the directors of the Australian Provincial Assurance Association, Ltd., is at present visiting New Zealand in company with Mrs Higgins and their young daughter. Mr Percy Grainger, the famous miuio composer, who has been on a brief visit to Palmerston North, left this morning for Wellington, where he joins the' Tahiti en route to Adelaide, his birthplace. Mr Graingdr intends spending a short holiday in the South Australian capital.

Mr George Dye Draper, who passed away at Auckland recently, aged 86 years, arrived in New Zealand over 73 years ago in the ship Charlotte Jane'. Another passenger by the sanle vessel was Mr Draper's brother-in-law, the late Mr James Edward Fitzgerald, who was at one time Premier of New Zealand.

On Sunday evening, at Cuba Street Methodist Church, Mr T. R. Hodder, prior to his departure for Honolulu on an extended visit, was presented with a Schofield reference Bible by the members of the -Sunday School staff. The Bible was inscribed: "From the staff of Cuba Street Methodist Sunday School to our loved and honoured superintendent." Eulogistio speeches in reference to the recipient were made by, the Rev. H. T. Peat, Mrs A. Boniface and Messrs G. C. Harris, A. H. Fisher and H. N. Vivian. Mr Hodder briefly replied,, referring to the joy of Christian service and his appreciation of the loyalty of the Sunday School staff. Mr and Mrs Hodder, accompanied by Miss Lorna Hodder, left Palmerston North en route to Auckland and Honolulu by th* Main Trunk express yesterday. At Honolulu they will be joined by Mr Maurice Hodder, who is at present studying in Boston. At the railway station "a larga number of friends and several prefects from the Boys' High School assembled to Wish Mr and Mrs Hodder farewell.

Mr L. M. Isitt, who has announced that he will not again be a candidate for Christchurch North, has represented that owhiifcitUency Jsihce August, 1911, when he was elected at a by-election Subsequent oh the death of Mr T. E. Taylor, so that if the present Parliament runs its full term of three years he will have sat f6r the constituency over an unbroken period of fourteen years. Like his predecessor, Mr Isitt is a zealous protagonist of the temperance cause, and his gifted ability as a speaker has been exercised on numerous occasions from his place in the House as a .champion of prohibition. Mr lisitt has always been an ardent Imperialist, and anything savouring of disloyalty or lukewarm affection for the British Empire is to him anathema. For this reason he has been a determined and consistent political foe of the leaders of the Parliamentary Labour Party, and in the iast election campaign he announced that lie would not support any party which was dependent on the vote of Labour extremists. This was tantamount to declaring his vote for Reform in any no-confidence motion in the House and on all questions in the present Parliament involving want of confidence in the Government he has followed the Prime Minister into the lobby.