PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 112, 11 April 1929, Page 7

PERSONAL

A London cable states that M. G. Mitonescu, the Roumanian Foreign Minister, is visiting the Metropolis.

f Mr C. T. Jeffreys, district engineer, Wellington, has retired from the Railway Department, after' having comipleted 4Q years’ service. || Mr N. R. Bain has been appointed 'Crown Prosecutor for Wanganui in riuccession to Mr W. H. Cunningham, livho recently moved to Wellington. 1 Mr W. P. Barnett, overseas representative' New Zealand Government Sourist Department, Sydney, arrived ihe Maunganui on Tuesday on a business trip to the. Dominion. ■Mr Clutha Mackenzie, director of Bie Jubilee Institute for the Blind, Eiickland, left for Wellington this week ■n route to where ho will investigate modern methods of dealing Krith the blind. * f Sir Carrick Robertson left Auckland by the Niagara this week for Canada eri route to England. He will be away some months. His son, Mr John Robertson, who has been studying at Cambridge University for some years, will return with him. /

On the motion of Mr J. McFarland, the executive of the Manawatu-Oroua branch of the New Zealand Pig Breeders’ Association to-day carried by acclamation a vote of appreciation to Professor ltiddet, of Massey College, for the assistance he is giving them. The chairman of the Hospital Board, Bir Jas. Wilson, was unable to preside at the meeting this afternoon owing to illness. Sympathetic reference was made to Sir James’s indisposition and it was decided to forward him a letter of sympathy and to wish him a speedy return to health.

Mr D. W. Westenra, a member of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association, was elected yesterday as the representative of the Canterbury district, on the Board of Agriculture. Mr 'J,lines Carr, of Methven, was also nominated for the position, but on a ballot being taken, Mr Westenra was elected. A Press Association telegram announces the death at his homestead, “Ounuwhao,” Tangowahine, of Mr Edwin Harding, aged 66 years ; the son of the late Mr John Harding, of Mount Vernon, Hawke’s Bay. Deceased was one of the best known farmers of the district and till recently a member of almost every local body and institution in it. , ‘ • Rev. J. A. McKenzie, who for some years has been in charge of the Presbyterian Church at Plimmerton, has been compelled • recently to demit his charge on the ground of persistent illhealth. His demissidh was received by the Wellington Presbytery Ah deep regret and appreciation was •■•■ corded of the work which Mr McKenzie had in the past been able to accomplish. Mr G. A. Troup, Mayor of Wellington, stated yesterday that the Prime Minister had approved of the appointments of the Mayor of Palmerston North, Mr A. J. Graham, and the Mayor of Masterton, Mr T. Jordan, as members of the Board of' Trustees of the National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum Fund. The other members of the board iare the chairman of the Wellington Harbour Board, Mr J. G. Cobbe; the Director of the Dominion Museum, Mr W. R. B. Oliver; the president of the N.Z. Academy of Fine Arts, Mr C. G. Wilson; the president of the Wellington branch of the Institute of Architects, Mr W. M. Page; the chairman of the Carillon Society, Mr H. D. Bennett, and Sir Harold Beauchamp.