PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 143, 21 May 1925, Page 5

PERSONAL

A very old resident of Gisborne, Mr Isaac Chadwick Taylor, aged 83. died this week. The death is reported by < able from Tokio of the Marquis ■Rairin Tokugawa, brother of Prince Tokugawo.

. A. J. Sinclair, of Hamilttn has resigned hia position as manager of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company (states an Auckland paper.)

His Excellency the Govc-rnor-C eneral Sir Hilaries Fergusson has accepted the position of patron of the Wellington branch of tho Navy Deague. Mr Harry N. Holmes, 0.8. E. F.R.G.S., who arrived in Palmerston Noth to-day, is the guest of Mr and Mrs T R. Hodder, of Alan street.

A Christchurch Press Association message reports the death of Mr Henry Murray, aged 70, for many years assistant town, clerk, Christchurch, and city valuer.

Mr W. P. Hope, acting counter clerk at tho local Post Office, has received notice of transfer to Edendale, Southland, where he will assume the duties of postmaster.

Mr R. V. Purton, who received serious injury in a motor accident at tho Kelvin Grove railway crossing some weeks ago, still lies at the local hospital in a critical condition.

Rev. Father John Seymour, fDAI., who, for the past three years has boon assistant priest at St. Mary’s, Manchester street, Christchurch, has been transferred to Napier, and leaves next week 10 take up his new duties. Father Malony, S.M., will fill the vacancy at St. Mary’s. Mr jfl. M. Morton, who li.is been in charge of the Wairarapa Fa 'oners’ Cooperative Association stock deportment in Pahiatua for the last three years, has been promoted to have charge of tho land department of the association with headquarters at Masterton.

Mr George Frederick Jenkinson, who passed away at Hamilton this week, aged 75 years, is stated by an Auck and paper to have been a descendant of tho original Lord Liverpool. Mr Wilberforie Jenkinson, a noted antiquarian attacl ed to tho British Museum, is a brother of deceased. At the mooting of the Wangfnui Board of Education lasi night the Dcpirtmerit of Health advised that Dr. Elizal*eth Gunn had been granted three months’ loave of absence, and that Dr. Graco Ste-enson had l>een appointed as temporary medical officer for the district.

Rev. G. F. Petrie, M.A., who for the past twelve years lias been vi.-ar of All Saints’, Otaki, has been appoinU d vicar of St. Michael and All Angels’ Church, Kelburn, in succession to the Rt v. A. W. Payne, M.A., who has been appointed subwarden of St. John’s College, Auckland. Both appointments will take effect as from August next. The chairman of the Horowhcma Power Board (Mr G. A. Monk) referi ed at the annual meeting of that body t> the fact that the engineer, Mr Overton, would shortly be leaving them. lie felt that it was almost entirely duo to Mr Overton’s ability that the scheme had been carried through aa expeditiously and satisfactorily as had been done. “During the year,” states the annual report of the All Saints’ Children’s Homo, “we lost a great friend and woiker in Mr S. R. Lancaster, who had prov )d a great tower of strength, giving himself unspairingly to the service of our work. A further loss had been occasioned >y the demise of Mr J. Hall, who quiet .y and unobtrusively did a great woik for the home.”

Rev. Andrew Cameron, 8.A., L.L.D., of Otago University, who dropped dead in Manchester Street, Christchurch on Tuesday, when on his way to attend the University Senate, wae born in Paisley. Scotland, in 1885. lie was educated at Port Chalmers High School, Otago University, Edinburgh, Jena. Leipzig and Berlin. He arrived in New Zealand in 1863 in the si ip City of Dunedin. Dr. Cameron took nis B.A. degree in 1879 (senior scholarship in zoology) and went to Edinburgh in 1880 for theological studies. He was licensed as a preacher by the Presbytery of Edinburgh in 1883 and was called as minister of the Anderson’s Bay Presbyterian Church. Dr. Cameron had been a member of the Otago University Council since 1894, and was for some years on tho Board of Governors of the Otago Boys and Girls’ High Schools. From 1902 on he was a men her of the Senate of tho Now Zealand University.