PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 292, 7 November 1928, Page 7

PERSONAL

A cable message from Delhi states that Field-Marshal Birdwood, General Officer Commanding tho Indian Army, is suffering from quinsy. His condition gives no cause for anxiety. A cable message from Sydney announces tho death of Hon. Robert Oruickshank, a member of the Legislative Council, aged 55. Mr Cruickshank was organiser of the Parliamentary Labour Party.

Hon. Roderick McKenzie, of Wellington, is spending a few days in the Nelson district, in the course of which he will visit Motueka and Takaka. Mr McKenzie represented the Motueka electorate from 1897 to 1914. Mr F. Heaton, M.A., B.Sc., who has been in charge of the science classes at Dannevirke High School for a number of years, has been granted a year’s leave of absence prior to his permanently resigning his position because of ill-health.

The death of Mr Henry Robinson took place at Lower Hutt on Monday evening after a short illness. The deceased was 82 years of age and had been a resident of Lowry Bay for the past few years. Formerly he was a well-known builder and contractor in Christchurch.

Rev. J. Rich, of Hamilton, who has been appointed as curate of Merivale, Christchurch, will take up his duties on December 12. Mr Rich, however, hopes to accompany the New Zealand contingent of Scouts to the Imperial Jamboree in England next year, leaving Now Zealand in June and being absent for about three months. Two nominations were received for the office of Moderator of the General Assembly at the Wellington Presbytery meeting yesterday. They were those of Rev. A. B. Todd, M.A., of Karori, and Rev. D. D. Scott, of Onehunga. On a ballot being taken Rev. Mr Scott was chosen as the Presbytery’s nominee by 16 votes to 9. The death of Mr Edward Claude Randle, aged 81 years, occurred at Hamilton tho other day. Mr Randle, who was born at Coventry, England, arrived in New Zealand 66 years ago, and after a few years’ farming experience in the Waikato settled in Coromandel. He took an active part in the development of Coromandel and was one of the first members of. the Masonic Lodge there. The death has occurred in Dunedin at the. age of 80 years of Mr George Aufrere Fenwick, a well-known sharebroker. With his parents, the late Mr Fenwick arrived at Port Chalmers in 1867, and after being employed on his father’s station near Oamaru, he entered the service of Cargill, McLean and Co., and later that of Neill and Co. In 1884 he and Mr William Kennedy started in business as stockbrokers, and though he retired from commercial life some years ago, his name is still associated with the sharebroking firm of Messrs Fenwick and Reeves.