PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 226, 24 August 1932, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr C L Grange, Town Clerk at Invercargill, has been appointed commissioner of Thames Borough. Miss Joyce Turner a W merston North girl, and now with th ‘•Blue Roses” company, is staj ng with Mrs J. J- Gillies, Andrew Aoung The death occurred yesterday o£ Mr George Thomas, builder, of Luoa Street, Palmerston North, after a tog illness' Deceased was aged 0< ana leaves a grown-up family. He came t Palmerston North four or hie Nears ago from Christchurch. Mr H. C. Loughlan, of Wellington, who three years ago left to I°*“ Royal Air Force in England, yesterday returned on leave from Sydn.y, journeved from the North-Mest Fron tier of India, where his squadro stationed.

The King has been pleased to approve the appointment of toir ttugi Stephenson, Indian Civil ber\ l ( tired), as Governor of Burma » sue cession to Sir Charles Imies «hose term of office will expire on December 20. Sir Hugh retired last April from the Governorship of Behar and Mr Kuramatsu Murai has been appointed Consul-General of J a P an f Sydney. Mr Mural was formerly Con sul-General at Calcutta (1928-1930), and. is at present stationed at bhang hai. He was among the tour distm guished Japanese who were bombed on April 29, the Emperor s birtlidaj, W a Korean fanatic. Holder of the Patron's Medal or the Roval Geographical Society, Air C. HKarias, Resident- Alagistrate at Kokoda Papua, arrived in Wellington yes ter’day from Sydney. Air Karius, who is accompanied by his wife, was honoured by the society for exploration work carried out- in New Guinea two years ago. Air and Airs Karius are paying a holidav visit to New Zealand. Hon. R. Alasters, Alinister of Education. was to pay an official visit- ot inspection to-day to the W eraroa Training School, near Levin, and he will return to Wellington this evening. The institution is one of tups® under the control of the Child A* elfa! o branch of the Education Department. During his visit to the district, the Alinister was to receive a deputation from various local bodies which would place before him certain questions discussed at a recent conference affecting the training school. Air Henry Hooper Holmden, one of the first officers of the Bank ot New Zealand, died at the home of his son, Dr. H. E. Holmden, Auckland, on Alondav. He was 86 years of age. The late Air Holmden joined the bank on its inception at Auckland in 1861. When a branch was opened in Dunedin in December of that year he was transferred there. AN bile in Dunedin All- Holmden helped to date an issue of notes which were later not accepted as legal tender because they were dated a Sunday. He served for many vears in Otago goldfield towns, and also at Tirnaru and Nelson. He retired in 1906.

Rev. F. H. Spencer, the son of a pioneer missionary among the Alaoris, died in Auckland at the week-end. Entering the Church, he was trained at Bishopdale, Nelson. He spent a few years in church work in England. Ou his return to New Zealand he took up church work, both among the. Europeans and Alaoris, the latter chiefly in Rotorua. Later he moved to AA'anganui in 1897, and there received the appointment of agent to the British and Foreign Bible Society. Oil retiring from this work he moved to Auckland, where his first wife died in 1924. Later, he married Aliss AI. AI. Pulleine, and returned to Rotorua.