PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 212, 6 August 1928, Page 7

PERSONAL

Mr J. S. Cantrell, of Dunedin, lias been appointed assistant manager of the National Bank of New Zealand in Auckland.

Sir John Russell, tlio eminent soil scientist, is the guest of Professor Pcren. He will leave Palmerston North to-morrow.

Mr 11. Spackman, of Napier, who has been appointed organist and choirmaster at Knox Church, Dunedin, has occupied a similar position for sixteen years at St. Paul’s Church, Napier. Mr Arthur Pickering, who undervent an operation several weeks ago in n privato hospital, has now returned to his home. His friends will be pleased to learn that he is making an excellent recovery.

Mr C. D. Pedersen, formerly of Palmerston North, who has been on the staff of the Thorndon railway' station for some time, has been transferred to the local station to act in a clerical capacity in the traffic branch. Mr W. F. Goddard, who has been accountant for the Taranaki Education Board for the last four years, has resigned his position to accept an appointment as commercial master on the staff of the Palmerston North Technical School.

Mr J. A. Dunning, New Zealand Rhodes scholar in 1925. has completed his studies at Oxford, and is returning to the Dominion hy the steamer Corinthic. due at Wellington on August 27.- He intends taking up a position on the staff of the John McGlashan College, Dunedin. A Press Association telegram from Dunedin announces the death at the age of 75 years of Mr R. C. Jones, managing-director of Messrs Turnbull and Jones, who was at one time chief electrical engineer for the Union Steamship Company and was later a resident of Wellington. Regret is expressed in the annual report of the Manawatu Racing Club at the loss sustained by the death of Messrs J. H. Hankins, J. E. Gillespie, Trevor Shannon, J. G. Collins and D. H. Speedy during the past twelve months, apd also the demise of Mr D. Stevens, for many years caretaker of the club’s property at Awapuni.