PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 117, 14 April 1930, Page 6

PERSONAL

Right Rev. J'. M. Stewart, formerly Bishop of Melanesia, has been appointed vicar of Ewshott, near Farnham, in Surrey.

Rev. Alfred Neild, M.A., chaplain of Te Aute College, has been appointed to .a canonry on the Cathedral Chapter of the Diocese of Waiapu. Canon Neild is the , father of Rev. J. R. Neild, of All* Saints’ parish. A London cable message announces the deathof Lord Dewar, aged 66. Lord Dewar was famous as an after-dinner speaker, and his epigrams have been recorded and published all over the world. He was Conservative member for Tower Hamlets from 1900 to 1906, and Sheriff and Lieutenant of the City of London. He was not married. The death occurred at on Saturday of Mr John Matthew King, formerly Commissioner of Taxes. The late Mr King came of a well-known AA r ellington family. He. was appointed Commissioner of Taxes in January, 1913, and retired in April, 1914. He was intimately associated with Rugby as a player and an administrator, and helped to make Rugby history by %c----tively participating in the movement to form the New Zealand Rugby Union.

The retirement is announced of Mr R. E. Rudman, principal of the Kowhai Junior High School, Auckland. Following 41 years’ teaching service. Mr Rudman will retire at the end or May. A\ r hen the Kowhai Junior High School was opened seven-years ago -Mr. Rudman was selected as the principal, and he has since hold that position. It was the first junior high school established in the Dominion, and is at present the only separate junior high school.

After a long illness, there passed away at AVellington on AVednesday morning last, in his seventy-second year, Mr George Pike, a recent wellknown and respected resident of Palmerston North. Born at Bulford. AViltshire, and sailing from Gravesend on 9th December, 1876, in the sailing ship, Fernglen, the late Mr Pike was one of the early emigrants to the Hawke’s Bay district, landing in Napier on 21st March, 1877. Marrying in 1880, he settled in AVairoa, coming to Palmerston North 34 years ago, where he resided almost continuously until 1927, when he moved to Petone. For many years a member of St. Andrew’s and later St. David’s Presbyterian Church, he was always a staunch church worker until his health failed some five years ago. Besides hie widow, surviving members of the family are Messrs. J. AV. A. and C. J. Pike (Petone), Mr M. A. Pike (Dunedin). Mrs A. J. Francis (Petone), Mrs P. AA’hitchead (Parewanui), Mrs, E. AVI Drake (Palmerston North), Mrs B. J. AA r . Singleton (Pipiriki) and Miss Pike (Petone). There are also eighteen grandchildren and five great-grand-children.

The death occurred at Masterton yesterday of Rt. Rev. Monsignor John McKenna, a prominent figure in the Wairarapa. Born in Newpark, Kilkenny, Ireland, in • 1860, he was educated at Knocktopher Seminary and St. John’s College, W’aterfcrd, being ordained to the priesthood on March 11, 1883. He arrived in.. Ne.w Zealand in June of the same year as assistant priest at St. Marly’s Cathedral, AVellington. He was assistant priest in ltangiora for a time and returned to St. Mary’s. In November, 1887, the Monsignor was appointed to the charge of St. Patrick’s Parish, Masterton, which was of a considerably larger size than at present, and in the service of Iris church he performed notable pioneering work under arduous conditions. In another seven years he would have completed his jubilee year in charge of the parish. The completion of his forty years was marked by the erection of a new convent school building in his honour. In 1915 lie was raised to the dignity of DomesticPrelate, with the title of Monsignor. He was keenly interested ,in educational matters, was for several years a member of the old Masterton Hospital Board, served for a term on the Technical School Board, and was for 36 years a member of the MastertonAgricultural and Pastoral Association. The Monsignor was an enthusiast 'of sport, was president and later patron of the Masterton Tennis Club, and patron of the AVairarapa Rugby Union. He was honorary chaplain, with the rank of captain, to the Masterton Mounted Rifles from 1901, and during the war was a major and senior Roman Catholic chaplain. He held a twelve years’ territorial service medal and the colonial auxiliary forces medal. Of a benevolent and cheerful nature, the Monsignor was generally popular. Solemn Requiem Mass will be held on Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock, and the funeral will follow.