PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 305, 23 November 1932, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Rev. B. M. Wilson, of Opawa, Canterbury, has accepted a call to the Semaphore Baptist Church, South Australia.

A London cable states that the King received in audience Admiral Sir Ernie Chatfield on his appointment as First Sea Lord. The friends of Mrs R. Tanner, of Karere, will regret to learn that she had the misfortune to fall and fracture her arm. Mrs Tanner is an inmate of a private hospital. Pilot Officer D. L. Dustin, Royal Air Force, a son of Mr D. Dustin, of Wanganui, and nephew of Mr W. Dustin, of Palmerston North, has been posted to No. 30 (B) Squadron, Mosul.

Messrs C. D. Fraser, S. JH. Snell, W. Mouldey, D. F. Smillie and D. W. Dixon, of Palmerston North, are at present in Auckland for the communication of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand.

The friends of Mr R. D. Knight, of Longburn, who was injured when he was attacked by a steer early this inonth, will be pleased to learn that he is making very good progress towards a complete recovery. Having completed a tour as examiner for the Royal College of Mysic, of Jamaica, Canada and Australia, Mr Hugo Anson, M.A., Mus. Bac., Hon. A.RIC.M., son of Dr. G. E. Anson, of Lower Hutt, arrived in Wellington yesterday. Captain 'W. P. Townshend, of the P. and 0. liner Strathaird, has been presented with a gold medal and certificate by the Greek Government, in recognition of his having rescued 30 men from the sinking steamer Theodoros Bulgaris. Mr C. Pike, the conductor of the Palmerston North Garrison Band, who trained the Levin Band with such success that it gained two awards at the Masterton contest, is to be forwarded a letter of appreciation by the Levin Borough Council. The death occurred in Dunedin yesterday of Mr Emil Isaac Halsted, a well-known business man. Born in Melbourne in 1867 ; Mr Halsted arrived in New Zealand in the middle ’eighties, and except for occasional visits abroad, had continuously resided in the Dominion. He was managing director of Hallenstein Bros., Ltd., and chairman of directors of the D.1.C., Ltd. Tho death occurred at his residence, Mahina Bay, Wellington, yesterday of Dr. Walter Fell, aged 77. The late Dr Fell was formerly well-known in Wellington, wliero ho practised his profession for many years before his retirement. He was born in Nelson in 1855, his father being the late Mr Alfred Fell. He studied medicine at St. Thomas’s Hospital, London, and took his M.D. in 1896. In 1884 hy returned to New Zealand, joining Dr W. E. Collins in practice in Wellington. He was a keen yachtsman aud also a past president of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. He retired from practice in 1907, but when tho war broke out ho went to England and was given a commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps und served in various capacities in various parts of the war zone,