PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 69, 20 February 1932, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr H. C. Jenkins, €d ‘ to £i Wanganui Chronicle, was a visitor Palmerston North this morning. Rev. Canon J. R. Wilford prmmpal of College House, ChrurtphoH turned to New Zealand by th tiki yesterday. . .* M The friends of Mr F. W. Christian, city, librarian, will be pleased to>arn that he is making steady, aitlmugb slow, progress from bis recent illness. The death occurred in the Wanganui Hospital this week, after a lengthy illness, of Mr F. de S. Sampson, who had been a resident of Wanganui for 30 years and who was associated several sports bodies in .that toTfn. One of his, daughters is Miss Marjorie Sampson, of Palmerston North. The many* friends of Mr r reci Bryant, of Tunbridge Wells, England, will be interested to hear that he arrived in Wellington on the . motor liner Rangitiki on Thursday night rn company with his son Dr. Ernest Bryant, and the latter’s wife and their three daughters— Miss Mavis, Nancy and Shirley Bryant—and tlieir son, Master Ralph Bryant. A London cable message announces the death of Sir John Corcoran, aged 70. He was bom in Rings County, Ireland, and attended the University College, Dublin, and Royal University, Ireland. He took a higher division clerkship in the War Office in 1 > and was principal clerk by 1901. m 1917 he was Assistant-Secretary at the War Office, and later was Director ot Army Contracts and Assistant-becre-tary-of-State. He retired in 1926 on appointment as Director of the .National Union of Manufacturers. A distinguished visitor who will arrive in New Zealand on March / is Mr C. H. Fagge, vice-president or the Royal College of Surgeons, who will represent that institution at tne British Medical Association conference to be held in Auckland from March l to March 11. Mr Fagge, who is known to a very wide circle of members or the medical profession, had a distinguished career as a student. He was appointed demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s Hospital, London, and now holds the position of. surgeon to the hospital. He has edited a book on osteology and a pocket anßtomy. Flying Officer J. Anneslev Hankins, oldest son of Mr and Mrs J. y • Hankins, of Wellington, and formerly of Palmerston North, who is attached to the Army ‘co-operation squadron at Farnborough, Kent, has received promotion as an instructor in. the Royal Air Force at Heliopolis, Egypt. According to cable advice received he will proceed to his new station with the battalion of the Royal Fusiliers on or about Tuesday next. Flying Officer Hankins was recently awarded a pass with distinction as a flying officer of the Royal Air Force, while ms activities in boxing gained for him Lord Wakefield’s trophy as runner-up for the, lightweight championship v* the Air Force. In view of the fact that the New Zealander has had only two years’ service, his rapid progress in has military career has been remarkable.