PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 241, 8 September 1927, Page 7

PERSONAL

After his recent serious illness, Mr Howard Batchelar is making good progress and expects to be about shortly.

Bishop Whyte, Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunedin, who has 'been on a holiday visit to Australia, returned by the Ulimaroa from Sydney this week.

The death is announced from Sydney of the Reverend A. Thain Anderson, former Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly of New South Wales.

Mr G. F. Whitehom, who has been on the staff of the Palmerston North branch of the Bank of Australasia, is now attached to the Wellington branch. Mr Whitehorn left for the city this morning. Rev. W. Mawson, of Auckland, one of the New Zealand delegates to the conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations in Honolulu, returned by tho Tofua this week, having visited Tonga and Samoa after the conference ended.

Messrs W. Marshall and J. Pringle (business agents) and Mr J. Cameron (district traffic manager, Wellington), of the the Railway Departmnet, are at preesnt in Palmerston North on departmental business. A Press Association telegram from Christchurch states that the death occurred yesterday of Rev. Robert Murray McDonald, aged 69, Presbyterian minister at Shirley. He was in his earlier life a 'missionary in the New Hebrides.

Mr J. D. Gray, Secretary to the Department of External Affairs, will accompany the Royal Commission which will leave for Samoa on Saturday. It is understood that Mr W. E. Mason, associate to Judge MacCormick (one of the Commissioners), has been appointed secretary to the Commission.

Pastor P. J. Bothwell, of the Newtown Congregational Church, Wellington, has intimated to his congregation his desire to relinquish his pastorate three months hence for family reasons, Mr BothwelPs future movements are at present undecided. The death of Mr Robert Macalister, aged 82, occurred at Birkenhead, Auckland, this week. Born at Wick, Caithnesshire, Scotland, he came to New Zealand at the age of 15 with his parents, who settled in Wellington. He joined the Civil Service, and subsequently was appointed by Sir George Grey as provincial district auditor for New Zealand. Later, he joined the Lands and Survey Department, and was stationed in Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland, retiring about 15 years ago. The funeral of the late Mr William James Laurie Taylor, who was accidentally killed on the Thorndon railway station on Sunday evening, took place yesterday afternoon, the number of friends who attended being evidence of the esteem in which the deceased gentleman was held, and' especially in the Bunnythorpe district where he had farmed successfully for some time. The cortege left the residence of deceased’s mother, Mrs W. Remnant, of Te Awe Awe Street, and on arrival at the Terrace End Cemetery an impressive service was conducted by Rev. Canon Fancourt. On the casket were beautiful blooms and later they adorned the grave in profusion. The pallbearers were Messrs I. Taylor, R. James, W. Andrews, W. Baker, E. Dear and B. Hughes.