PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 193, 20 July 1925, Page 7

PERSONAL

Mr W. Hall, of Ward street, to-day entered a private hospital to undergo a slight operation. Enquiry this morning elicited the information that the condition of Mr J. O. Batchelar is much the same as previously reported. The friends of Mr George Plimmer, of the Post Office staff.-, will be pleased to learn that he has-now almost recovered from his recent illness.

A cablegram from Tokio states that Prince Tokugawa, formerly Counsellor Prince Tokugawa, formerly Couneellor of the Japanese Embassy in London, has been appointed Consul-General in Sydney. t The death of Hon. Edward John Russell, a member of the Commonwealth Senate, and formerly assistant and honorary Minister, is announced by a Press Association message from Melbourne.

Cr. Graham, who was recently appointed a representative of the Borough Council on the Palmerston North River Board, was accorded a welcome at the meeting of the latter body this morning.

The friends of Mrs A. Osborne, of “Papanui,” Featherston street west, will regret to learn that yesterday morning she fell and broke a" leg, the injury necessitating her admission to a private hospital for- treatment. Major F. TV. Sandford, who was in charge of the party of New Zealand Boy Scouts who went abroad last year, has been awarded the Silver Wolf badge by the English authorities. This marks the highest step he can take in the movement.

Mr W. J. Day, who for tlie past 20 years has been senior travelling representative for Messrs Id. L. Young, Ltd., has been appointed general manager of the firm. Mr H. L. Young will in future act as governing director.

Word has been received in Wellington that Dr. C. R. Childs, son of Mrs and the late Mr T. G. Childs, of Lyall Bay, and formerly of Wellington, has passed the F.ILC.S. examination recently held in Edim burgh. During the last twelve months Dr. Childs has been doing post-graduate work in London, ana intends, before returning to New Zealand, to spend some time at the Royal Sussex Hospital, Brighton. Mr James Robertson, of Mangere, who recently attained the 91st anniversary of his birth, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1834, and arrived at Auckland with his parents in 1842 in the ship Duchess of Argyle. His father started the first rope works in Auckland. Mr Robertson is now the oldest resident in Mangere district.

The death is reported of Mr L. W. Douglass, manager of the Tokomaru Bay branch of the Bank of New Zealand. Mr Douglass had been associated mainly with the branches of the bank in the South Island, and prior to his appointment to the Tokomaru Bay branch hed been managing the Takapau branch, Hawke’s Bay. He had held the position of manager of the Tokomaru Bay branch for a little over two years.

Mr W. B. Lambert, local manager for Messrs Schneideinann and Sons, Ltd., will leave in a fortnight’s time for Dunedin, where he will take over control of a branch to be established there by that firm. His impending departure was referred to at the morning service at the Baptist Church yesterday by Rev. C. "W. Duncumb, who stated that by his preaching ability, his abounding enthusiasm and cheery optimism Mr Lambert had quickly won good opinion for himself. His departure would be a severe loss to the local Church, which would wish him every blessing.

■ Dr. Robert Stevenson Aitken, who was recently awarded the overseas scholarship in geology, by the Koval Commissioners of the 1851 Exhibition (the announcement was cabled from London), is only twenty-four and is the elder son of Rev. James Aitken, of Gisborne. He has won junior and senior national scholarships, topping the list for New Zealand in each case, was dux of Gisborne High School in 1916. won a university entrance scholarship twice—he was too young to hold it the first time—graduated in medicine in 1922, won a medical travelling scholarship in 1923, and crowned his record by gaining the Rhodes Scholarship for 1924. Mr G. AY. Spencer. left Palmerston North to-day , for Auckland, where lie will take over the position of district manager for a machinery firm. Mr Spencer has been a prominent member of the local . Baptist Church and a leader of the young men’s Bible class, which has prospered greatly under his guidance. Reference to his departure was made at the morning service yesterday by Rev. C. AY. Duncumb, who said that, as a member of the Deacons’ Court for two years and leader of the young men’s Bible class tor three years, Mr Spencer liad rendered yeoman service to the Church, which would wish him every success in his new sphere. Mrs Spencer, who is the only daughter of Mr Bell, the wellknown South Island newspaper proprietor, will remain in Palmerston North for a few weeks before joining her husband in Auckland.