PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 168, 15 June 1927, Page 9

PERSONAL

Mr H. Bond, service officer to the • Wellington Automobile Association, is at present in Palmerston North. A- E. Pringle, railway business agent, is visiting Palmerston North on departmental business. A New York message announces the death of Mr Coles Phillips, a prominent artist. Mr A.. W. Packard, a well-known Auckland journalist, who formerly resided in Palmerston North, is a visitor to the Winter Show. Visitors to the Winter Show include Sir Douglas Mac Lean, “of Hawke’s Bay, and Dr. H. E. Annett, of the Indian Agricultural Service. Dr. Melville Aiken, having graduated Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of has secured an appointment in the Wellington Hospital. Dr. Aiken is the younger son of the late Mr and Mrs Fred Aiken, who were residents of this town a few years ago. Mr Loten, bead of Te Ante College, and Mrs Loten, who attended the show to-day to see the Rugby match between the first fifteens of Palmerston North Boys’ High School and Te Aute College, are the guests of Mr and Mrs J. Murray. Mr Sloan Morpeth, ex-New Zealand amateur golf champion, who has been residing at Hamilton for some time, has now taken up his residence at Palmerston North. Mr Morpejh should be an - acquisition to the Manawatu Golf Club during the remainder of the season. Yesterday morning at . Government House, Wellington, His Excellency the Governor-General presented to Major E. Vine, Ambulance Brigade for the Wellington district, the badge of rank of Serving Brother of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, a distinction which was recently conferred on Major Vine by the Grand Priory of the Order. One of the best known of the old time master mariners of Auckland, Captain Charles Watchlin, died this week at the age of 80 years. No less than 60 years of his life -frere spent in New Zealand and its waters. He was a seaman of the old school and had passed from the sailing vessels to the steamers. A London cable message imnounces the death of the well-known writer, Mr Jerome K. Jerome. Born in England on May 2, 1859, Mr Jerome was the son of Rev. Jerome Clapp Jerome, and in turn he was clerk, schoolmaster, actor and journalist. His publications were well known to those '--of an earlier day, and his novels, •'Three Men in a Boat” (1889) and ■ ‘ The Passing of the Third Floor Back” (1907) —the unique influence of a young man who stayed at a cheap Loudon boardinghouse run by a Cockney woman —are still read extensively. The latter in dramatised form was through New Zealand several years ago. Mr J. K. Campbell, who left New Zealand in 1889 and has spent most oi the time ever since on the staff of the High Commissioner, in England, returned to New Zealand this week by the Remuera. In an interview lie said that the New Zealand office in London had a very high standing, and New Zealanders generally were very well thought of at Home. Mr and Mrs Campbell propose to spend a long holiday in the Dominion before returning to England. Before her marriage Mrs Campbell -was Madame Emily liimiug, a well-known English vocalist. The following appreciative reference to the late Hon. D. H. Guthrie was made in the report of the Dominion Council of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association, which was presented at the annual meeting in Wellington yesterday:—“The representatives of the N.Z.R.S.A. met the late Mr Guthrie on scores of occasions and another friend and the New Zealand ways acceded to the kindly and sympathetic hearings accorded by the Minister greatly assisted the interviews ; it was always known that the representations made would be carefully and conscientiously considered. In his death the ex-soldiers have lost another friend an dthe New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association, on their behalf, extended deepest sympathy to Mrs Guthrie and her family.”