PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 229, 27 August 1932, Page 6

PERSONAL.

At the annual meeting of the Apiti Co-op. Dairy Co., Ltd., this week, Mr S. J. Strahan was re-elected chairman of directors.

Mr J. B. Gerrand was, at the annual meeting of the Manawatu Bowling, Croquet and Tennis Club last evening, reelected president for the fifth successive year, wiien the opportunity was taken to express appreciation of his very fine services to the club.

Mr C. E. Brian, supervisor of the clerical branch of the chief post office, Hamilton, will tako up the duties of supervisor of the postal branch at Palmerston North next week in succession to Mr C. Sigley, who has been on a month’s leave prior to retiring on superannuation.

Squadron-Leader J. L. Findlay, who was injured in an aeroplane crash at Sockburn recently, is making good progress towards recovery. Aircraftsman J. Simpson, who was more seriously injured in the crash, has made slow improvement and is now off the seriously ill list.

Mr Malcolm Fraser, who had been Government Statistician since 1911, and was recently appointed Under-Sec-retary of Internal Affairs, was the recipient of a presentation from, the staff of the Census and Statistics Office on Thursday, to mark its long association with him. Hon. A. Hamilton (Minister of Internal Affairs) made the presentation on behalf of the departmental staff.

A Press Association telegram from Gisborne reports the death at the ago of 88 years of Mr William Bruce, a retired merchant and farmer, who was the last surviving member of the original small grazing run holders in the Gisborne district. Born in Glasgow, he first came to New Zealand in 1804 in the Helen Sea. He settled in Auckland as a contractor’s clerk and later tried his luck on the goldfields. He then returned to Glasgow, and after tlio successful establishment of a wholesale oil business there returned to Now Zealand, settling in Gisborne, where he had since resided.

The degree of Doctor of Science has been conferred by the University of New Zealand upon Mr Wolfram H. A. Penseler for his researches into the microstructure of New Zealand coals. Dr. Penseler is a mining engineer and an associate member of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy in London, and is the present director of the School of Mines in Huntly. He was born in New Zealand and received his early education in Germany, England and New Zealand. During 1925-26 Dr. Penseler carried out research for the Mines Department in Wellington on the briquetting of New Zealand coals. He also continued his geological studies at Victoria University College and carried out research work on the microstructure of New Zealand coal, for which the degree of M.Sc. (Honours in Geology) was conferred on him in 1926.