PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 63, 10 February 1930, Page 6

PERSONAL

Pastor Mallis, superintendent of the South Sea Island Mission, is visiting Palmerston North. He is the guest or Rev. and Mrs F. A. Crawshaw, ot Milverton Avenue.

The Minister of Defence, Hon. J. G. Cobbe, left Feilding last night for Auckland, where he will depart tomorrow by the Maui Pomare for Apia, Western Samoa. • Messrs. Vance and Johnson, appointees for mission work in the South Sea Islands Evangelical Mission, arrived to-day from Wellington. I hey are staying at the Baptist Manse. The Minister of Health, Hon. A. JStallworthy, will leave to-night for Christchurch to unveil the Methven district war memorial to-morrow. He will return to Wellington on Wednesday!

Major-General Sir Thomas 1 arr, formerly Inspector of Medical Services at the War Office, who has been on a holiday to the Dominion, will l® a ' e bv the Niagara on Tuesday for England.

The friends of Mr G. Luoni, of Palmerston North, will regret to learn that he had to enter a private hospital last week in order to undergo an operation. Mr Luoni is now progressing satisfactorily.

Mr O. Doel, M.A., of the teaching staff of the Foxton District High School, has been appointed to a position on the teaching staff of tne Palmerston North Boys’ High School and will take up his rew duties early in March.

The chairman of the New Zealand Ayrshire Cattle Breeders’ Association, Mr A. M. Weir (Southland) and Mr F. Mills (Hawera) a member of the executive leave for Canada on Tuesday next for the purpose of selecting cattle for shipment to the association.

Rev. Herbert William Williams was censecrated to the office of Bishop of Waiapu at St. John’s Church, Napier, yesterday morning. Clergy from all parts of New Zealand, including Archbishop Averill, assisting in the ceremony. The service of installation took place in the evening, states a 1 ress Association telegram). Discovery in London of the old letters patent issued to the first Bishop of Melbourne (Bishop Perry) has a connection with New Zealand. When the late Bishop Perry was making his arrangements to come out to Melbourne, lie came in contact with a young and very ardent Churchman, Rev. J. kheldon, who had some little time before been invalided Home from missionary work in India. He offered this young man a curacy under him, and the otter was accepted. Mr Sheldon subsequently came to Canterbury to serve under the late Archdeacon Harper. Mr J. C Sheldon, of Christchurch, is a son, and Mr H. Sheldon, of Timaru, is a grandson of the clergyman who journeyed to Melbourne with Bishop Perry.