PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 228, 26 August 1932, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr M. E. Ivnudsen was last evening re-elected chairman of directors of the Whakarongo Dairy Company.

Mr W. J. Jefferies, of the T'akaka District High School, is paying a visit to his parents, Mr and Mrs Jefferies, 304 ltuahino Street.

At a meeting of the Levin Chamber of Commerce, Mr N. M. Thompson, was elected president, and Mr D. P. Todd vice-president for the ensuing year.

Mr C. G. C. Dermer was re-elected chairman <.f directors at the annual meeting of shareholders and supplier - of the Cheltenham Co-op. Dairy Co. yesterday. Mr Jack Devine, who was well known in swimming circles locally a year or two back, and who is now stationed at New Plymouth, was a visitor to Palmerston North yesterday. A cablegram from London announces the death of the Marquess of Normanby, aged 8G years, who was a member of the House of Lords for 37 years before making his maiden speech. Rear-Admiral Geoffrey Blake, who has been appointed Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Transport and Supplies, will take up his new appointment at tho Admiralty on September 20 (says a London message).

Tho War Pensions Board concluded its sitting at Palmerston North today and the members, Mr T. E. Y*. Seddon (chairman), Dr. W. Marshall MacDonald, and Mr J. D. Harper, left for Wellington.

Mr J. Muirhead, passenger foreman at the Palmerston North railway station, has been advised that he had received the appointment of yard foreman, a position created by the retirement of Mr C. E. Downey some weeks ago.

After 18 years’ service as vicar of Lower Hutt, Yen. Archdeacon Hansell has resigned the cliargo of the parish. He will continue to be Archdeacon of Wairarapa, however. His ministry a.t Lower Hutt will conclude in six months’ time.

At its meeting yesterday, which was presided over by the Primate, Archbishop Averill, the standing committee of the General Synod confirmed the appointment of Rev. IV. H. Baddeley, vicar of Melanesia, in succession to Rt. Rev. F. M. Molyneux. It is expected that the new bishop will arrive from England during November next.

Rev. A. J. Seamer, president-elect of the Methodist Conference, is in Palmerston North for a few days and is the guest of Rev. J. D. McArthur and Mrs McArthur, Waldegrave Street. Mr J. Voss, vice-president of tho Methodist Conference, who will bo in Palmerston North for tho week-end, is to bo tho guest of Mr and Mrs T. R. Hodder, Alan Street. Rev. J. D. Grocott, travelling secretary of the Methodist Young Men’s Bible Class Movement, who is at present visiting tho Manawatu district, will be the guest of Mr and Mrs J. Candy, Linton Street, for a few days. The Governor-General held an investiture at Government House, Wellington, last niglrt at which His Excellency presented to Sir William Hunt and Sir Cecil Day the Royal letters patent of Knighthood. His Excellency also presented to Professor James Hight, Litt.D., the Insignia of a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, to Mr George McNamara the Insignia of a Commander of tho Order of the British Empire, and to Captain IV. H. Jones tho Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration. The investiture was followed by a reception at which a large number of guests were presented to Tlieir Excellencies.

Mr John Wallace, a veteran of the Maori War, passed away a few days ago at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr C. Alve, of Rangitane. Shortly after his birth in Wellington in 1853, Mr Wallace’s parents rerpoved to Wanganui, where he spent most of his younger days. Ho joined the Kai Iwi Cavalry as a trumpeter when only a boy of 15. He followed the blacksmithing trade, living about Wanganui until he went south in his twenties to reside at Duvauchelles and Little River. Returning to the North Island in 1889, he took up residence in Eketahuna until compelled to retire on account of ill-health 15 years ago, when he came to reside with his son-in-law at Rangitane. His wife predeceased him four and a half years ago. Of a family of seven, only three survive him, one son having made the supreme sacrifice in the Great War. One sister, Mrs E. Brough, of New Plymouth, survives him.