PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 21, 23 December 1925, Page 9

PERSONAL

Mr and Mrs A. Hopwood have returned to Palmerston North after an extensive tour abroad. Mr W. Shannon, of Feilding, returned by the Maunganui yesterday from a visit to Australia. A cablegram from New York announces the death at the age of 71 years of Mr Frank Munsey, newspaper publisher, who passed away yesterday from peritonitis following an operation for appendicitis. Mr Q. Donald, the All Black footliaik:r, who has been on a brief visit to Palmerston North, left for his home in the AVairarapa this afternoon. The Minister of Agriculture (Hon. W. Nosworthy) has been notified of Mr AV. D. Hunt’s acceptance of his appointment as representative of. the commercial and proprietary interests on the Dairy Produce Control Board. Prior to his departure from Pahiatua for Palmerston North, whore he is to reside in future, Mr J. Swiggs was met by a number of Pahiatua business men and presented with tokens of esteem. A week-end visitor to Foxton was Mr A. D. Clemett, J.P., of Mongonui. For many years prior to 1913, Mr Clemett was postmaster of the seaside town and one of its most prominent and public-spirited citizens. Local residents who have left town for the holidays include Mr and Mrs C. F. Spooner, to the AVaikato; Mr and Mrs M. H. Oram, to Day’s Bay; Mr and Mrs AV. L. Fitzherbert, to Auckland; Dr. and Mrs Barnett and family, to the Auckland province. Dr and Mrs Louisson, of Christchurch, will be the guests of Mr and Mrs C. Louisson, of Palmerston North, during the racing period, and will attend the Manawatu meeting, Mr Louisson being president of the local Racing Club. Mr Alister Brown, advertising maager of the Wellington Post, was the recipient of a presentation yesterday from members of the commercial staff and heads of departments on the occasion of his retirement after nearly 30 years’ service with the paper. Mr James Ames, senr, city valuer and chief returning officer for AA rellington, announced yesterday his intention of retiring from the employ of the AVellington City Council after a unique career, covering a period of over 58 years, which is probably a record for Australia or New Zealand. Mr Ames is in his eighty-first year. The Greek residents of New Zealand this week, presented Mr Fred Dyer, of AVellington, with a gold watch and chain in recognition of the completion of 20 years’ service as Consul for Greece in the Dominion. Mrs Dyer was also presented with a solid silver tea set.

Mr J. J. W. McLean, postmaster at Taumarunui, has been promoted to be postmaster at Masterton, vice Mr J. T. AVilliams, who will retire on superannuation at the end of tho mouth, after 40 years’ service. Mr E. H. AVhitmoro, postmaster at Tokomaru Bay, has been promoted to the same duties at AVairoa, vice Mr J. H. Fletcher who has been appointed postmaster at Stratford. Mr C. J. McKenzie, inspecting engineer of the Public AVorks Department, AVellington, who has been on a nine months' tour of Europe and America, returned homo by tho Maunganui yesterday. Mr McKenzie travelled via America on the outward journey, and after visiting various places in. Great Britain, France and Italy, returned via Australia, spending so mo time in the Commonwealth. Mr Frank Goldberg, governing director of tho Goldberg Advertising Agency, Ltd., returned by the Aorangi which reached Auckland on Sunday last, and arrived in AVellington yesterday. During his recent visit to Australia Mr Goldberg organised tho new Sydney office of his firm. In Australia Mr Goldberg found commercial conditions improved in consequence of the results of tho Federal -elections. Mr Charles AVilson, chief librarian of tl\e General Assembly Library, who on February 1 next will have completed twenty-fivo years’ service in that capacity, has given notice of his intention to retire as from the end of March next. Mr AVilson hopes, with Mrs AVilson, to leave for San Francisco at the end of April en route for the Old Country, where they will stay some months before returning to the Dominion.

Mr H. E. Bonnett, who, for many years, has been closely associated with picture theatres and theatrical affairs ill Palmerston North, has secured the lease of the local Opera House and will commence in business for himself on Saturday night next with the big 10reol Chariie Chaplin comedy, “Tho Gold Rush.” Mr Bennett wishes it to be known that he is in no way connected, as an exhibitor, with any other theatres in Palmerston North.

Among the passengers who arrived from Sydney yesterday was the Rt. Rev. John Taylor Smith, who during the Great War held the position of Chaplain-General of the British forces. Bishop Taylor Smith was appointed Chaplain-General in 1901, after a wide and varied experience. In earlier life he was canon-missioner in Sierra Leone. The Bishop will leave for England via Vancouver by the Niagara, sailing from Auckland on January 19. A distinguished appointment conferred on Dr Cumbrae Stewart by the Senate of the Queensland Univirsity is that of Garrick Professor of Law on the foundation created by Miss Cecie Garrick as a memorial to her father, tho late Sir James Garrick, Q.C. Dr Cumbrae Stewart, late scholar of Christ Church, Oxford, Doctor of Civil Law, and of tho Inner Temple, is a native of New Zealand. He was born at Riversleigh, Canterbury, in 1860.

A cablegram from Faris states that the newspaper Temps announces the death of Professor Sir Paul Vinogradoff. Professor Vinogradoff, who had been Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford Universiay since 1903, was born in Russia in 1854. While professor in Moscow ho exerted himself for the spread of instruction in Russia, and acted as chairman of the educational committee in the. city of Moscow. Ho resigned his chair m consequence of a conflict with bureaucratic authorities and went to England where he resumed his interterupted studies in English social and legal history. He was editor of the Russian sootion of the Social and Economic History of the War (1914-17), published by the Carnegie Endowmont Fund. Professor Vinagradoff had lectured in Indian and American Universities. Recently, with the New Zealand scientist, Sir Ernest Rutherford, ho was honoured by the Paris University.