PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 110, 5 April 1930, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr S. S. M- Bisli, town'clerk at Greytown, has been appointed town clerk at Pukekolie. • •Mr F. L. Tuck, B.A. B.Sc., a member of the teaching staff of the Hamilton Technical School, has been appointed principal of the .Timaru Technical School. . lit. Hon. J. G. Coates, with Mrs Coates, left Palmerston North at 7.15 a.m. to-day for Hastings to attend the air pageant at that centre. The Reform Leader will return to Auckland on Tuesday. Professor A. H. Tocker, of Canterbury College (representing the New Zealand Government) and Mr James Roberts (Labour) left yesterday by the Ulimaroa for Sydney, there to connect with the Orontes for England. They will attend the International Labour Conference to be held at Geneva. Rev. J. Ernest Parsons with Mrs Parsons, and their little daughter Dorothy, leave by "the Napier train ch Monday for Wellington. They will join the Tahiti on tho following day, sailing via Australia for a year’s holi-. day in England and the ' Continent, after which Mr Parsons will return to his .ministry at Palmerston North. The death has occurred of Mr George Dawson, an old resident of Kaihu, North Auckland, at the age of- 92 years. Bom at Stokc-on-Tees, County of Durham, Yorkshire, oil- April 1,. 1838, Mr Dawson came to New Zealand in the sailing ship Rangitiki in April, 1884, and later settled at Kaihu. Mr Dawson is survived by three sons and five daughters; there are 43 grandchildren, 36 great-grandohildren and two great-great-grandchildren. Tho death took place at Dargaville yesterday of Mr Thomas C. French, who had been secretary of the Kaipara Hospital Board since its. inception. Deceased had been a resident of the district for nearly half a century. Mr French leaves a grown-up family of- one son and four daughters. Airs French is a daughter of the late Mr John ■ Stallworthy, and a sister of the Minister-of Health, Hon. A. J. Stalhvortliy. . Rev. Arthur Mitchell has retired from the active ministry of the Methodist Church and from St. John’s, Ponsonby. Mr Mitchell entered the ministry in 1890. He served as a chaplain during the Great War and was present at the battles of the Somme, Messines, and Passchendaele. He holds the 1914-15 decoration, two war medals and the colonial forces’s long service decoration. The strain, of Mr Mitchell’s experiences .in Egypt, France and Flaiiders has necessitated his retirement.