PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 203, 27 July 1929, Page 8

PERSONAL.

The death is reported from Brisbane of Mr J. W. Hetherington, who was three times Mayor of that city. Mr R. Hardie Boys, of Wellington, is a visitor to Palmerston North and is the guest of Mr G. H. Bennett.

The friends of Mr F. B. Patterson, late of Palmerston North, will regret to learn that he is seriously ill in a Christchurch hospital. A cable message from Berlin states that Herr Mueller, the Chancellor, who recently underwent a serious operation, is now out of danger. Mr A. H. Cockayne, who lias been appointed assistant Director-General of Agriculture, will leave the Fields Division at Palmerston North early in August to take up his new r duties in Wellington. During the last few- days (says the Southland Times) there nave passed aw-ay two members of one of the early pioneering families of Southland, Messrs. William Vessy Lindsay, and John Lindsay. The death of the lastnamed was recorded on Tuesday morning, and only one day elapsed before the death of his brother.

Flying-Officer H. Wentworth Duffy, of No. 5 Squadron Army Co-operation, Royal Air Force, Quetta, India, arrived in Wellington on Tuesday on furlough. He left for Christchurch the same evening. He received his pilot certificate at Wigram Aerodrome, Christchurch, about four years ago. Mr W. Hammond, manager of the Invercargill branch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., has received notice of his promotion to the position of manager of the firm’s Wellington branch. Mr Hammond will be succeeded at Invercargill by Mr Cameron, who is at present relieving manager at Dunedin. Mr John Lishman Potter, of Timaru, was 95 years old this week. He says he is the oldest goldminer living in the British Empire. He was born in Sunderland, England, in 1834, and at the age of 20 participated in the battle between the military and the miners at the Eureka stockade, near Ballarat. He w-as at Gabriel’s Gully in 1861, and took part in other gold rushes in New Zealand and Australia.