PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 113, 9 April 1930, Page 8

PERSONAL

making good progress. . Mr A W. Anion, a member of the committee of the Aangitikei liacn g Club, is leaving this week on a visit the Homeland. , - . The many friends of Mr Claud ® ter will be pleased to. know he » I>™_ grossing satisfactorily after Ki tion in a Wellington private hospital. Rev. Conrad Mountfort who has been curate in the Sydenha P ’ has accepted the living at -Kuma , which was vacated last yeai by o Tvf rvipif*? The 90th birthday of a P*P n g® r Pakuranga, Mr John Udy, 0 M on . wood House, Pakuranga, tell op Mon dav Mr Udy is the oldest resiuen of y the district He stiU enjoys good health. ... t Hon. W. B. Taverner, Minister of Railways, and Commissioner of State Forests, was accorded a cmc r«eption at the Nelson Municipal Chambers yesterday afternoon on.the occasion o* his first visit to Nelson m las ministerial capacity. A cable message from Boston nilnounces the death of Mr \\ dliam J • Gould Harding, former Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank Board, Washington, D.G. He was regarded as one of the highest authorities oil banking, in the United States. The death occurred at Dunedin yesterday of Mr S. S. ; Myers, a wellknown dentist of that city, aged 77. Mr Myers 'was president of the forbury Park Trotting Club for fifteen years, and a steward of the Dunedin Jockey Club for about thirty years. _ Rev. T. E. Riddle and Mrs Riddle, with their three sons, left India for Sydney on February 28, en route for Auckland. Mr Riddle has been associated with the Presbyterian mission in the Punjab for many years, and he has not been in New Zealand for seven years, when he was here on furlough. Lieutenant-Colonel F. R. M. Crosier, a visitor from England, arrived at Wellington. by the lonic yesterday. Colonel Crozier saw active service in France and Gallipoli. He is a descendant of Captain F. R. M. Crozier, who navigated the North-West passage early in the last century. Colonel Crozier has a son in Auckland.., Mr Maurice John McKenzie Cameron, who died from injuries received when the aeroplane lie was flying crashed at Porirua on Monday, was-the eldest son of Mrs Cameron and the late Mr M. P. Cameron, of Wellington, and grandson of the late Sir John McKenzie. He left New Zealand■ for Egypt with the Sixth Mounted Rifles. Invalided back to New Zealand, he again returned to Egypt with tho Fifteenth Mounteds. After serving in Egypt lie joined the Royal Air Force. After the war he carried out refresher courses at Sockburn. He was for some years on the office staff of the Union Steam Ship Company.