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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 222, 15 August 1930, Page 6

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A London cable message says that the condition of Lord Birkenhead is still serious. A London cable message says that the health of the Duke of Northumberland is causing anxiety. A message from Hamilton, Ontario, reports the death of Mr John Kennedy, a member of the Scottish team which will participate in the Empire Games. Dr. C. J. Reakes (director of the Department of Agriculture), Mr A. H. Cockavne (assistant-director) and Mr W. M. Singleton (director of the Dairy Division) visited Palmerston North yesterday. Mr J. N. Bateman, who lias been secretary of a South Island iron and steel company, for several years, left last week for Northern Rhodesia, South Africa, where he spent many years prior to coming to New Zealand, about eight years ago. The death of Air Moses Ensor, of Devonport, Auckland, occurred this week. Air Ensor, who was 88 years of age, was one of the pioneer miners of the Thames goldfields. He was born in Staffordshire and came to New Zealand at an early age. The resignation of Air Thomas Baker Insoll, who has been clerk of the Waikato County Council for the past 27 years, was tendered at a meeting of the council this week. There have been only two clerks to the council since its inception in 1877, Captain James AlcPherson, a Alaori war veteran, and Air Insoll. Re.v. A. N. Scotter, 8.A., of Christchurch, president of the Alethodist Conference, has left for the north, where he intends spending a fortnight in the visitation of the churches in the chief centres. He will later spend a fortnight in visiting the churches of the Nelson and West Coast districts of the South Island. Rev. Air Scotter, in company with Rev Air Peak, will visit Palmerston North next week. The appointment of Rev. Bro. AI. B. Hanrahan, AI.A., as provincial of the Christian Brothers throughout Australasia, is announced. Brother Hanrahan is head of the Christian Brothers’ Training College at Strathfield. He is also one of the representatives of registered schools on the Bursary Endowment Board. He is the first Australian to be appointed head of the order in Australasia, says a Sydney paper. Archbishop Redwood, Bishop "Whyte, Dunedin, and Rev. Dr. Kennedy, provincial of the Society of Alary, leave Wellington to-day by the Maunganui for Sydney, to attend the ceremony of the laying of a foundation stone of a new Alarist college at Woodlawn, Lismore, in the Northern Rivers district of Australia. The laying of the foundation stone is to be performed by the Apostolic Delegate, Archbishop Cattaneo. Air G. S. AVhite, who is to take up his duties as home missionary for the Alethodist Church, arrived at Auckland on Tuesday from Alontreal. His first station will be at Upper Hutt. Air White has recently served two years in the ministry of the Canadian Alethodist Church. He was a wireless operator in the British Navy during the Great AVar and visited New Zealand in the same capacity on merchant vessels several times. He has made a specialty of youth movements, and has been a leader of the Boy Scouts organisation in Alontreal for many years.