PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 76, 25 February 1930, Page 6

PERSONAL.

The Palmerston North Rotary Club yesterday extended a welcome to Mr F. J. Nathan, who lias returned from a holiday in North Auckland. Mr Archibald C. Kent, a prominent Auckland business man and a member of Newmarket Borough Council, died on Sunday at the age of 58. Mr J. R. Hughes, engineer to the Palmerston North borough, has returned after attending the annual conference of civil engineers held at Dunedin. Mr W. G. Shannon was elected a life member of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association at the monthly meeting of the general committee to-day. The committee of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association today decided to forward letters of sympathy with Messrs. J. Balsillie and W. McKenzie in their illnesses.

At the Methodist Conference at Wellington congratulations were tendered to Revs. J. J. Lewis, W. J. Williams and C. E. AVard on having attained the diamond jubilee of their Ministry. Lord and Lady Latymer, of the Burdett-Coutts family, of Shipton Lodge, England, arrived at Wellington from Sydney by the Tahiti yesterday to spend a few weeks trout fishing and deer-stalking in this country. At the monthly meeting of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association to-day the chairman (Mr J. Linklater, M.P.) extended a cordial welcome to the secretary, Mr W. T. Penny, on the resumption of his duties after his recent serious illness.

Eulogistic reference to the services of Mr S- Macaulay, who is shortly departing on a holiday trip to England, was made by tiie chairman (Mr J. Linklater, M.P.) at the monthly meeting of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association to-day, and members wished him bon voyage. A London cable message states that the Government of Maita has appointed Sir James Connolly as AgentGeneral in London. Sir James Connolly was a member of the Western Australian Cabinet during the period that Lord Strickland, now Prime Minister of Malta, was Governor of that State.

While the Archbishop of New Zealand, lit. ltev. W. A. Averill, is abroad for the Lambeth Conference and a tour of Great Britain and the Continent, the office of acting-Primate will be held by the Bishop of Wellington, Dr. T. H.' Sprott. The Archbishop will sail from Auckland on March 11, and he expects to be back in New Zealand toward the end of the year. The Public Service Commissioner announced yesterday that he had appointed Mr G. C. Rodda, at present assistant accountant to the Treasury, to the position of assistant secretary to the Treasury, etc., previously held by Mr A. D. Park, the present secretary. Mr Rodda was born at Stafford, Westland, in 1878, his parents having arrived from England in the early colonial days, and his father being a weil-known resident in Westland for many years.