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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 253, 20 September 1930, Page 8

PERSONAL

Their Excellencies, Lord and Lady Bledisloe, left Wellington last evening for Tonganro National Park, wFe thev will spend the week-end. ine. will return by the Limited express on Monday morning. A London cable message announces the death of Major-General Sir Neville Howse, V.C., formerly „r Home and Territories, and Health in the Commonwealth t eOerai Cabinet. He was bom in Stogursev, Somerset, in 1863. Hon. T. Shailer Weston, ALLAN, who represented the employers or -> Zealand at the recent International Labour Conference at Geneva, iert England yesterday on his return. R will connect with the Niagara at V ancouver on October 10, and will am in Auckland about November o. Reference was made at a meeting o the general committee of the Fending A. and P. Association last evening to the excellent services rendered to the association in connection with tne p.g Classes bv Mr W. J. Croucher. of Palmerston North, several pressing themselves m terms or nJ 0 n praise of Mr Croucher’s work. At the annual -conference of the New Zealand Dental Association the election of officers resulted as follows. President, Air D. \. Donaldson (Christchurch); vice-president and president-elect, Dr. K. C. Alorpeth (Wellington); chairman of executive council, Mr AI. Paulin ( Wellington,, honorarv treasurer, Mr AI. D. AlcGoun (Wellington); honorary secretary (tor the sixth year), Mr M. E. Denniston. The sudden death of Mr Charles Edmund Fabian at the age of 75 at his residence in Wellington yesterday removed the last of a very old family of pioneers. father of the deceased, Alexander Fabian, came to this country from the Island of Jersey in 1864, bringing with him his wife anc. a family of four boys and one girl. Hie late Air C. E. Fabian, who was the youngest of the family,_ led a "varied and interesting life during the sixtysix vears that he spent in the colony and'was chief!- engaged in farming at Blenheim, Grevtown and the W aikato.