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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1073, 21 July 1924, Page 5

PERSONAL

Lord Strathspey was a visitor to tho Tlouse of Representatives on Thursday. The Wellington Artillery Bund has presented Bandsman I>. Coyle ■with a watch in recognition of his twenty V tars’ service. Captain Gipsy Bat Smith, the evangelist, accompanied by Mrs Smith, left Wellington on Friday for Sydney by' tho Jlaheno. At a meeting of the committee of the Manawatu Hunt on Saturday light, a vote of condolence was passed to Air 11. MeKwen and family on the death of Mrs J. C. Parker, Mr McEwen’S duughter.

Mr John Daniel, for many years repair superintendent to the. Union Steam Ship Company at Wellington, died an Thursdaylit his residence in Wellington at the age of 84.

A Dunedin Press Association message reports that privute advice has been recotved of the death in Edinburgh on Thursday of Mr W. S. Davidson. who was for 40 years manager of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, and a director of the National Mortgage Company.

Mr C. Clarke, senior clerk and supervisor at tho Stratford Post Office, has received notice of promotion to ' the position of supervisor at the Wellington telegraph office. Mr L. C. B. Loveridge, from the telegraph engineer’s office at Mastc-rton, will succeed Mr Clarke.

A very old resident of thj Dominion, Mr William Stewart Baxter, died in the Pahiatua Hospital. Decease-.!, who was born in India, was aged 86 years and had lived in Pahiatua for very many years. In July, 1857, as a youth, he wa.- apprenticed in Auckland to Mr James Wood .sub-editor of the Southern Cross newspaper). The late Mr Baxter could narrate same interesting reminisccncos of his experiences in Auckland and Napier. He assisted in the production of the first issue of the Hawke’s Bay Herald. An interesting visitor to Palmerston North during tho week-end was Captain C. Allen, who recently arrived in tho Dominion from America on a visit to his brother in Wanganui. During his stay with his nephew, Mr Ralph Allen, of Union street, the captain, who is aged 84, recounted some of his many interesting experiences while onguged in the manufacture of munitions in the late war. At one time editor of the Toronto Recorder, Captain Allen is at present living in retirement. He leaves again for America in about two months’ time.