PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 23, 26 December 1925, Page 7

PERSONAL

Mr J. S. Barton, S.M., of Wanganui, has left for a holiday to Australia.

Mr J. L. Beck, who has left Wanganui for Christchurch, where he intends to reside, had been connected with musical circles in Wanganui for forty years.

Colonel Parker' Governor of the Sinai Peninsula and a nephew of the late Lord Kitchener, who came to New Zealand by the Maunganui, is now visiting Oamaru. Rev. J. Millburn Stewart, who had been compelled to seek rest for health reasons, has returned to town much benefited, and will resume his ministry at Emmanuel Church to-morrow. Mr J. T. Williams, postmaster at Masterton, who is retiring on superannuation at the end of this month, was at one time stationed at Foxton and Pahiatua, and in 1921 was postmaster at Feilding. Rev. H. J. Ryburn, of Christchurch a Rhodes Scholar, recently returned to New Zealand after completing several years’ study at Oxford, England, and the Union Theological Assembly, New York.

The friends of Mr W. T. Penny, secretary of the Manawatu Agricultural' and Pastoral Association, will be pleased to learn that he is progressing favourably after the operation he underwent a few days ago. The , Prime Minister, Hon. J. G. Coates, was in Auckland for a brief period on Thursday morning, en route to his home at Paparoa. Mr Coates will spend a quiet ten days there before returning to his Ministerial duties in Wellington. Dr. Desmond Frengley, who obtained his medical degree at the recent final examination, and has now commenced duties as a resident medical officer at Wellington Hospital, is the third member of the family of Dr and Mrs Frengley, of Karori, to commence a university • course at Victoria College and finish at Otago University.

A recent arrival from Rome is Father Chapman, a New Zealander, who has obtained his ecclesiastical degree, and is also Doctor of Divinity and Doctor of Philosophy. Father Chapman is at present on the relieving staff, being temporarily attached to St. Mary of, the Angels Church, Wellington, and he is to take charge of a parish in the new year. The death occurred in Huntly, Auckland, on Thursday, of Major James O’Sullivan, for many years director of stores to the Defence Department, Wellington. Major O’Sullivan, who was a nativo of Ireland, came to New Zealand in the early days, and became attached to the old armed constabulary, which the Government set up in the early days as the nucleus of a permanent force. He was immediately concerned in the equipment of the various contingents at the time of the war in South Africa, and was also director of stores during the earlier years of the Great War.