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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 165, 12 June 1928, Page 7

PERSONAL

lillP- Press Association telegram irom ;||t|l&sv Plymouth states that the Gov-jvjSlrnor-General and Lady Alice Fergusmsjmi i arrived there lust night. They 'Visited the parks,. port and hospital >!sfsbis morning. His Excellency had tench with the .Rotary Club, after- | “wards attending a public reception at ' jPukekura Park and later opening the • AVinter Show. This morning he will /Jftttend a Masonic gathering. ptl-Tho death occurred in Cambridge a ’■few days ago of Mr Charles Joseph HHditehell, a resident of the district mj§or over 50 years, aged 87. 1 ftp- A Press Association message records the death at Gisborne yesterday of Mr A John Somerville, aged 88, one of the • | pioneers of Poverty Bay, and a wellsi known builder in the early days. H Mr H. J. Johns, who passed away at 5 ’Wellington this week, aged 04 years, A practised for many years in that city |§ as an architect, being responsible for % the designing of some of the larger ' buildings. Messrs F. W. Arbon and K. W.

Dalrymple have been nominated by the Manawatu A. and P. Association for election as delegates to the annual meeting of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board.

|| At the meeting of the College Street t. School Committee, last levelling, appreciation was voiced of tlie work done ov Mr W. S. Woodroofe on the AVar.ga- > nui Education Board. It was decided to | nominate him for a further term of office.

Sir Thomas Parkinson, a famous London surgeon, who is a New Zealander born, arrived in Melbourne recently'. He retired from practice last year and is touring the Dominions. He intends to stay two months in Australia, four months in New Zealand, and will then visit South Africa. The death has occurred at Devonport, Auckland, of Mr William Swanson, aged 76, who was well-known as a Native Land Court interpreter. By hi.s death a link with the early history of Auckland is broken, as it was liis father, the late Hon. William Swanson, who gave his name to the settlement of Swanson. Rev. Dr. Thomas Yates, of Bournemouth, England, an ex-cliairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, who is at present on his way to fulfil a four months’ engagement in Melbourne, stopped in Palmerston North yesterday _ for a few hours. Arriving by the Napier express, he addressed a meeting in the evening and later left by the Limited for Rotorua. Mr F. W. Piper, well-known in business circles in Palmerston North for some years past, and Mrs Piper leave Auckland by the Niagara cn route.to England where they intend to reside for some time. Mr Piper has been an active member of the Orchestral Society and at last evening’s meeting of the committee he was accorded a vote of thanks for his services, best wishes being expressed for his future welfare. Mr Piper will be greatly missed in musical circles in Palmerston North.