PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 77, 26 February 1930, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr J. Linklater, M.P., was present at the Rongotea bazaar to-day ana later proceeded to the Marton Sho . Mr T F. Chandler, assistant stationmaster .at Palmerston North, has resumed duty after his annual vacation. The president of the Wellington Synagogue, Mr Phil Myers, has received advice of the death in London of Mrs Hertz, wife of the Chiet Rabbi, Dr. Hertz. Tho friends of Mr and Mrs A. Saunders, of Fitzherbert West, will be interested to learn that their son, Mr Mervyn Saunders, has been successful in completing his examination for the degree of Bachelor of Engineering. Mr Saunders has been a student at Canterbury College. A tribute to Mr E. W. Hunt, the first president, was paid at the annual convention at Wellington by the president of the New Zea Land Society of Accountants, Mr Griffin. Eleven years ago, said Mr Griffin, Mr Hunt put forward proposals for the holding of an annual conference. He had also acted as chairman of the principal committee in charge of the present convention.

On his way to Vila, where he wi 1 1 take up office as Administrator of the New Hebrides under the condominium between the British and French Governments, M. M. G. Tronet arrived at Melbourne on February 19. hormerly M. Tronet was Director of the French Colonial Service at Le Havre. Ho also has served in an official capacity in the Soudan, Senegal, Martinique and Guadeloupe. Brigadier-General W. J. Clark, of Victoria, and Mrs Clark arrived from Sydney by the Marama yesterday to spend a month’s holiday in New Zealand. Brigadier-General Clark retired in 1918, when he was in command of tho 6th Military District, Tasmania. His service in the army dates from 1885. He is a brother-in-law of Sir Heaton Rhodes, and Sir Heaton will be host to the visitors during their stay.

A pioneer of New Zealand, Mr Thomas George Marlow, died in Auckland, aged 91 years. Born in London, Mr Marlow came to New Zealand in 1865, after a short stay of one year in Melbourne, and arrived at Dunedin in the ship Hero. He was employed as a commercial traveller for some time and later took up farming at Katikati. Afterwards he was a member of the clerical staff of the Waihi Gold Mining Company. The retirement on superannuation on March 31 next of Dr. J. S. Alaclaurin, D.Sc., F.C.S., Dominion Analyst, and Chief Inspector of Explosives, is announced. Dr. Maclaurin has had a distinguished career in the realms of science. Born in November, 1864, Dr. Maclaurin lias completed over 28 years’ service with the State. He was educated at Auckland University College, and was exhibition science scholar. He graduated B.Sc. in 1892, with first-class honours in chemistry, and D.Sc. five years later. He is a fellow of the New Zealand Institute. It is not generally known that the scholarship which enabled Sir Ernest Rutherford to go to England was first awarded to Dr. Maclaurin, who refused it. It was that refusal which gave Sir Ernest his opportunity, the outcome of which is known throughout the world. Recently Dr. Maclaurin attended the Pan-Pacific Science Conference, and returned to New Zealand with valuable information regarding flax fibres.