PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 143, 19 May 1932, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr J. D. Atkinson, of Wellington, has been awarded the Shell scholarship for attainments during the graduate course for 1932 by the Massey College Professorial Board.

Mr R. A. Loughnan, the veteran journalist, is at present in a private hospital in Wellington, where he underwent an optical operation. He is progressing favourably.

Mr D. R. Baker, of the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, has been transferred to Palmerston North, to supplement the present staff. Mr Baker will commence his duties on Monday. Mr C. L. Hall, late manager of the Bank of New South Wales, at Palmerston North, has been appointed sub-inspector at Perth, Western Australia, and Mr A. J. M. Goodwin has taken over the management of trie branch.

The Wanganui Education Board yesterday passed a resolution of condolence with the relatives of the late Mr W. A. Collins, who had been chairman of the board since 1920. Mr E. F. Hemingway was elected chairman in his place, and Mr J. Aitken deputy chairman.

Mr Cambdon Garrett, manager of the Bank of New South Wales in Auckland, has been transferred to Sydney., where ho will bo manager of tho King and George Street branch. Mr F. D. McGovern, assistant-manager in Auckland, will become manager, and Ire will be succeeded by Mr J. R. H. Caiman, manager in Fremantle.

The death has occurred of Captain John Bono, formerly marine superintendent for the New Zealand Shipping Company. His first trip to New Zealand was made in 1870 as an apprentice on the City of Auckland and altogether ho made 52 round voyages in sail and steam in the New ZealandLondon trade, and when he retired from a sea-going career this was believed to be a record.

Mr A. C. Pitt, who' for the past five years has been on the office staff of a Wellington firm, and who has resigned to take an agricultural course ■at Massey College, was presented with a leather suitcase, a set of books, and a cheque by the staff last week. Mr Pitt, who has also been a member of the Island Bay Presbyterian Church and superintendent of the Houghton Valley Sunday School, has been honoured with presentations from the members of the church and school. Mr W. Adams has informed the Wanganui Education Board that he will not be seeking re-election to the board at the election to be, held in July. Mr Adams has served on the board for eight years, representing the North Ward, that district extending from Marton to Taumarunui. He is now the board’s representative on the Wanganui Unemployment Committee, Wanganui Girls’ College Board of Governors and the executive of the Boys’ and Girls’ Agricultural Clubs Association.

The well-known New Zealand ethnologist, Dr. Peter Buck, will leave Honolulu on July 8 to take up a position as lecturer at" Yale University. He will make his homo in New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Buck, who has been connected with the ethnological section of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, for several years, formerly occupied the position of director of Maori hygiene in New Zealand. Upon his departure for Honolulu he was replaced by Dr. E. P. Ellison. Dr. Buck is one of the most prominent authorities on tho Maori race, and, during his association with the Bishop Museum, he conducted valuable researches into Polynesian history and customs in several Pacific Island groups.

Mr Jonas Masters, father of Hon. R. Masters, Minister of Education, who died at Stratford on Tuesday night at the age of 76, was one of the bestknown men in Taranaki, and was held in the highest esteem. On coming to New Zealand from England as a young man lie spent several years in the coal mining industry on the West Coast of the South Island, and then moved to Taranaki) where he .took up a farm at Ngaere, later starting a business that has grown into one of the largest in Taranaki, A few years ago deceased retired from active business life, the firm of Masters, Ltd., being carried on by his sons, under the direction of Hon. R. Masters. Tho late Mr Masters took a leading part in public lifo, being a member of the borough council for a considerable time, and Mayor of Stratford for two years. He also took a leading part in. the work Of the Methodist Church. He was a keen bowler and held tho office of president of the Avon Bowling Club at Stratford at the time of his death.