PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 141, 16 May 1929, Page 7

PERSONAL

b last night’s meeting of the Welfcon Presbytery it ivas reported that L. B. Bibby, of Brooklyn, now ng his course for the Presbyterian igtry, had completed his B.A. dei, and had secured first place in • Zealand in both philosophy and :ation and received a scholarship of

it the meeting of the Wellington ication Board, yesterday notitfon was received from the Departit of Education that Professor J. Mannhardt, who was accredited by German Government, would shortly visiting New Zealand in the course ;a world tour for the purpose of 3yinr>' educational questions, and it jfbeen requested that he should be in facilities for observing the worklof the education system of the ninion- \

fee death occurred at Lowry Bay, Ellington, yesterday of Mr Ernest lion Bell, third s-on of Sir Francis id Lady Bell,, after a protracted illiss. The deceased, who was a single an 43 years of age, was educated at 'ell'ington College, and later took up rming pursuits m the Rotorua - disict. Of recent years his health had >en anything but satisfactory, and bout a year ago he went to England ir special treatment, unfortunately ithout gaining any physical benefit. A London cable message announces ,e death of Professor Meredith Atnson, who played a part in the esblishment of the workers’ educamal system in Australia and Neto saland. Professor Atkinson, who as only 46 years of age, was at the me of his death literary secretary to ie New Health Society in London, e edited the Review of Reviews for nstralasia from 1922 to 1925. He as a prolific writer on social and ecoimic studies and published several oks.

dany New Zealanders (says an exinge) will regret to hear of th© death Walter Cleeve Edwards, one of. New gland’s pioneer civil engineers, who lh Mr Prancis Bell, built some of by Zealand’s first railways in the |1). A man of great ability, he re|ed various appointments in South 6j C a, where he lived for sixteen Wg ’eventually becoming second enKer for Cane Colony. During the k while ac Vryberg, Mr Edwards |Tcaptuied and made prisoner by the Era, but escaped. At the end of | war, all the English staff of enters were pensioned off, and Dutchh took their places. Mr Edwards brwards was aj>x>ointed chief , resist and chief engineer of the Gilbert I Ellice Islands. Latterly he retd and lived in Sydney. Mr Edtds was the only son of the late Ven. Ihdeacon Edwards, and of Mrs Edps, who is still living in Dunedin.