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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 221, 19 August 1931, Page 6

PERSONAL

The Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, and Lady Bledisloe went to Nelson last night and intend to return to Wellington early next week. The trip is being made to allow of His Excellency s recuperation after his recent illness. A Press Association message f rOIT I Christchurch announces the death or Rev. William Greenslade, aged 56 a prominent Methodist Minister. He had been ill for fifteen months.

The many friends of Mr J. W. Rutherfurd, who underwent an operation for appendicitis in a private hospital yesterday, will be pleased to learn that he is making very satisfactory. progress. A pioneer settler and former mayor of Hawera, Mr Hugh K. Whittington, passed away on Saturday. Mr Whittington served on the Hawera Borough Council for over 20 years, and was mayor on two occasions, in 1911 and in 1914.

Mr Fleetwood Pellew, whose death has occurred at New Plymouth at the age of 72 years, was the son of pioneer settlers, Mr and Mrs Israel Pellew, who arrived in New Plymouth from Gulval, Cornwall, in the ship Timandra, in February, 1842.

At a meeting of the Colne Valley Conservative Association, Lieut .-Col. Edward Lascelles was adopted as_ prospective candidate for the division. Lieut.-Col. Lascelles was born in New Zealand in 1880 and has had a very distinguished military' career, as well as holding important posts in the Ministry of Labour and Ministry of Health. Captain Luis Alvarez, commander of the Chilean training ship General Baquedano, at present at Auckland, arrived in 'Wellington by the Limited express from Auckland yesterday morning. .He was accompanied by two of his officers. An official call upon His Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, at Government House, was made at 10.45 a.m.; and one upon the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, and Cabinet, at Parliament Buildings at 11.15 a.m. Lord Bledisloe returned the call at the "Wellington Club at noon, and the visitors lunched with Their Excellencies at Government House.

The death occurred at Wanganui on Monday of Mr Daniel Jones, aged 77, one of Wanganui’s earliest settlers. His father, Mr Joseph Jones, left England under the 'Wakefield land settlement scheme in 1839, and arriving in "Wellington by the Martha Ridgway travelled through the Manawatu to settle finally in Wanganui. At the age of 18 Mr Daniel Jones joined the staff of tho Wanganui Chronicle, and constructed one of the first publishing presses used by the firm. At the end of last century he left the Chronicle to take up dairy farming at Springvale, where he resided until the time of his death. Mr F. Webb Jones, editor of the Wanganui Herald, is a brother of deceased.