PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 247, 17 September 1932, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr H. P. Smith head teacher of the Te Hapara School, Gisborne, has been appointed headmaster of the Masterton West School.

Mr L. FI. Gollinson has, his numerous friends will bo pleased to learn, recovered sufficiently from his recent illness to bo about again.

Rev. G. T. Brown, M.A., after assisting in tho Youth for Y r outh Campaign at Wellington, returned to Palmerston North yesterday. Mr W. Goodfellow, who attended the Ottawa Conference on behalf of the dairy industry, left Vancouver this week by tho Aorangi, which is duo at Auckland on October 2.

A cablegram from Sydney announces tho death at tho age of 91 years of Mr James Henderson, who was 60 years in tho service of the Sydney Morning Herald, being publisher from 1866 to 1918.

Advice has been received that Constable A. McGowan, of Auckland, has been appointed to succeed as arms officer at tho Palmerston North Police Station, Constable H. Cole, who is at present on his three months’ retiring leave.

Mr R. W. Cumberworth, a member of tho teaching staff at the Boys’ High School, was extended a motion of sympathy at last night’s meeting of the High School’s Board of Governors in the loss he has suffered by the death of his father.

Rev. M. A. Rugby Pratt, president of tho Methodist Church of New Zealand, passed through Palmerston North yesterday on his way to the Auckland district. Mr Pratt, who was met by Revs. J. 1). McArthur and A. N. Scott-er, is conferring with the churches at Taumarunui and Te Awamutu, and after visiting the A\ aikato district will tako part in the Methodist Union celebrations in Auckland.

A correspondent writes in the Otago Daily Times stating that probably the oldest living printer in the Dominion of New Zealand and Australia is living in retirement in Gonville, W anganui. His name is Edward Vine, and lie was at one time a resident of Dunedin, going back to tho early ’sixties of last century. He was for many years foreman for Messrs Fergusson and Mitchell, and when he left this firm he settled in Wanganui, where he carried on business for some years. He is in his ninety-fifth year, and in full possession of all his mental faculties. He was at one time associated with Sir Julius Vogel in a newspaper venture in the early days of Dunedin, and has memories of Thomas Bracken and Sir Robert Stout.