PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 230, 28 August 1929, Page 6

PERSONAL

The friends of Mr D. Charker, of 1 Taonui Street, will regret to learn that he is confined to his home through illness.

Mr G. D. Pattle, of Palmerston North, returned yesterday after a three months’ visit to the United States and Canada.

Mr H. G. Bell has relinquished the position of chief reporter on the New Zealand Herald to become associate editor of the Dominion, Wellington. The House of Representatives yesterday granted eight days’ leave of absence to Sir Maui Pomare and Mr T. D. Burnett (Temuka) on account of illness.

Mr S. S. Dean, chairman of the management committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union, returned to Wellington yesterday by the Makura from Sydney.

Mr Alfred Seifert returned to Palmerston North yesterday, from a visit to Australia. He accompanied the New Zealand golf team which played New South Wales for the KirkvVindeyer Cup. Mr A. Cook, the local stock inspector for the Department of Agriculture, is confined to a private hospital with pneumonia. Though Mr Cook is still seriously ill, it was stated to-day that his condition has shown a slight improvement. Canon W. Fancourt is to be inducted vicar of St. Mary’s Anglican Cathedral, Parnell, on Thursday evening by Archbishop Averill. The new vicar, and also Canon Payne, warden of St. John’s College, will also be installed as honorary canons of the Cathedral. The Mayor (Mr A. J. Graham) will leave for Wellington to-morrow morning to attend an executive meeting of die Municipal Association. In the afternoon Mr Graham intends to wait upon the Minister of Railways in connection with the questions of more powerful headlights on engines anu the provision of railway crossing keepers in the Square.

A cable message from London announces the death of Sir Ernest Mason Satow, the . diplomatist, aged 86. Sir Ernest had a long experience in the East in diplomatic affairs. He was British Minister at Tokio from 1895 to 1900, and at Pekin from 1900 to 1906. He was a British delegate at The Hague- Conference of 1907, and was a member of the International Court of Arbitration. In the death of Mr F. J. Burton, Wanganui loses one of its best-known supporters of sport, particularly Rugby, deceased having held the post of treasurer to the Metropolitan Union at Wanganui for many years. He was also president of the Imlay Cricket Club, and was himself a well-known cricketer, having been many years ago a member of the Australian eleven. Rev. Father Andersen, M.A., brother of Mr Johannes Andersen, of Wellington, left Christchurch yesterday for Sydney, where he will catch a steamer for Naples, and from Naples go to Spain on an extended health trip. Father Andersen was born in Christchurch, but has spent the last nine years as a Professor in the Provincial Seminary at Mosgiel. • A party of medical men from various parts of New Zealand left Wellington last evening by the Tahiti to attend the medical conference which is to be held in Sydney. They included Sir Louis Barnett (Dunedin), Dr Agnes Bennett, Dr F. E. Allison, Dr G. Bell, Dr P. Cameron, Dr H. V. Coverdale, Dr D’Arth, Dr J. Derrick, Dr Fenwick, Dr Fulton, Dr Fitzgerald, Dr J. W. Hall, Dr H. Jellett, Dr C. Jones, Dr Leahy, Dr P. Lynch, Dr MacDonald, Dr J. D. M. Stout, Dr Schoular, Dr Thompson, Dr Usher, Dr D. S. Wylie, Dr Williams, Dr Wilson and Dr Fraser.