PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 107, 2 April 1930, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr R. K. Gardiner, of Oamaru, has been appointed clerk to the Waitaki County Council. After nearly forty-five years in the Government service, Mr L. B. Jordan, senior audit inspector in Canterbury, is retiring. Mr Russell Owen, the New Jork journalist with the Byrd Expedition, left Wellington last night to visit relatives in Auckland and Hamilton. A London cable announces the death of Frau Cosima Wagner, the widow of Wilhelm Richard Wagner, the great German composer and musical revolutionist. Frau Wagner was aged 93. Major H. Cayzer, a brother of Lady Jellicoe, arrived from Sydney by the Ulimaroa yesterday. Accompanied by hi 6 wife and daughter, he will leave for Rotorua and Taupo to-morrow, and will sail by the Niagara from Auckland. Professor J. R. Brown, of Wellington, has been elected with Professor J. Hight, of Christchurch, and Professor H. W. Segar, of Auckland, to represent the Academic Board of the University of New Zealand on the University Senate.’ At the Citizens’ Lunch Club yesterday the chairman (Mr E. N. Budden) took the opportunity of wishing Messrs C. E. Dempsy and T. R. Hodder and Rev. J. E. Parsons a pleasant journey and safe return on their approaching departure for abroad. Dr. C. J. Reakes, Director-General of Agriculture, visited Palmerston North, to-day, and in company with Mr J. W. Deem. Director of the Fields Division of the Department of Agriculture, inspected the experimental plots adjoining Massey College. Marking the termination of twentyeight years of service as social welfare officer for the Palmerston North Hospital Board, Mr F. Aisher retired on superannuation on March 31. The duties of his office have been taken over by Mr W. H. J. Watson. Mr E. Stoddart, of San Francisco, and Mr W. McGonagle, of Honolulu, who attended the Pacific Rotary Conference in Sydney, arrived by the Ulimaroa yesterday to attend the Rotary Convention at National Park. They are accompanied by their wives. New members were welcomed by the Palmerston North Citizens’ Lunch Club yesterday as follow: Messrs W. R. Beattie, T. A. Daly, J. W. G. Davidson, V. T. Dibble. J. Hope Johnston, J. W. McConnon, W. D. Olney, A. J. Palmer, S. J. Parkes, P. H. Parr, J. A. Smith, W. A. Wearne, E. H. Ziebell and W. S. Long. Visitors welcomed were Messrs J. B. Maunder" (Waikato) and W. E. Winks. Mr L. J. Schmitt retired yesterday from the position of employers’ representative on the Arbitration Court, when the new representative, Mr W. Cecil Prime (Christchurch), took his seat for the first time, says a Wellington paper. Mr Schmitt, who has been appointed New Zealand Trade and Tourist Commissioner in Australia, will sail towards the end of May. In the meantime he is making preparations to visit other parts of the Dominion to get in touch with those interested in trade and tourist traffic between Australia and New Zealand. Opportunity was taken at the meeting of the Palmerston North Citizens’ Lunch Club yesterday to present to Colonel A. Headland a certificate of life membership. Returning thanks, the recipient stated that it was a great pleasure to be associated with the club. It was one of the most successful institutions in the town, and it was very gratifying to note that 95 or 97 per cent, of its funds went to benefactions. Rev. G. T. Brown, M.A., Moderator of St. David’s, Terrace End, presented to the Wanganui Presbytery at Marton yesterday a call from that charge in favour of Mr L. G. B. Whitehead, a licentiate of the Church at present living in Waipu. The call was signed bv 85 members and a number of adherents. The stipend was fixed at £3OO with a manse and one month’s holidav each year. Mr Whitehead had indicated his acceptance of the call and the ordination was fixed for an early date in St. David’s Church, Rev. G. T. Brown to preside and ordain; Rev. R. McDonald to preach and Rev. R. H. Catherwood to address the minister and the congregation. Colonel T. A. Hunter, late Director of Dental Hygiene, has been appointed to represent the New Zealand dentists at the fiftieth anniversary of the British Dental Association, which will meet in May. Prior to his departure by the Remuera, the members of the dental services throughout the Dominion presented him with a silver salver emblazoned with a medallion symbolical of the service and two enlarged and framed portraits of himself, one of which will hang in the room occupied by the director, and the other in the training school at Dunedin. Since he was the originator and first director of the service, Colonel Hunter also received a presentation from the headquarters of the Health Department.