PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 270, 14 October 1929, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr E. F. Hollands, electrical engineer for the Timaru Borough Council, has been appointed engineer-manager of the Hutt Valley Electric Power Board.

Dr. E. H. H. Taylor has been appointed second medical officer at the North Canterbury Tuberculosis Institution. Dr. Taylor was formerly on the junior medical staff of the Christchurch Hospital, and served six months in the bacteriological laboratory, and eight months at the tuberculosis institutions. He left New Zealand for the purpose of obtaining experience in tuberculosis work, and has been house surgeon at the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. He will return to New Zealand in January next. The funeral of the late Mr Frederick William Smith, of Ferguson Street, took place on Saturday in the presence of members of his family. The deceased gentleman, who was 71 years of age, was the eon of Mr Baker Smith, R.A.. many of whose pictures were shown in English galleries. He arrived in New Zealand nearly fifty years ago, and settling in Palmerston North, married the adopted daughter of the late Mr George Howe, one of the pioneer settlers in the R-angitikei and Manawatu districts. Besides his widow Mr Smith is survived by a grown-up family of four daughters and one son, the latter being Mr Oswald M. Smith, a well-known Dunedin merchant. Many letters and. telegrams and floral tributes were received by the bereaved family.

After 34J years’ service with the New Zealand Farmers’ Dairy Union, Ltd., for over 24 years of which he has been secretary, Mr W. E. ltenda 11 has, for health reasons, been compelled to ' resign. Mr Bendall started with the a any as a junior clerk when its office was in Wellington and when it had a chain _of 33 creameries through various districts prior to the commencement of home separation. When home separation came into vogue, the Wellington factory was sold and the company moved its headquarters to Palmerston North in 1905. Mr Bendall, who had risen to the position of chief clerk, was then appoint-ed-secretary, and has held the position over since. His many friends will join in the hope that Mr Bendall will have a speedy return to good health. The death has occurred at Opotiki of Mr Frederick Pijan Drury, one of the oldest settlers of the district. He was asonol Major-General Drury, R.M.L.1., and he was reared in military barracks in Plymouth. England. At the age of 25 he left Ebgland in a windjammer, and after a voyage of 121 days arrived at Port Chalmers. Going to Opotiki he was employed as cadet o.n a sheep farm, and about a year later he purchased a farm of 180 acres for £9O. Mr Drury was the first settler in the Waiotahi Valley, with which communication was then very difficult. SooiT after settling at Waiotahi, Mr Drury accepted a seat on the Whalestane Road Board and Was elected to represent the Waioeka riding on the W'hakatane County Council in 1884. Later, Mr Drury was elected to represent the Ohiwa riding on the Opotiki County Council, and with a short break oiiby.he represented the riding for 35 yeafSY/hptil his retirement a few years- tffio. This length of service has seldom been eclipsed.