PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 136, 9 May 1933, Page 6

PERSONAL.

The death occurred in AA’ellington on Sunday of Air G. A. Pearson, aged 70, formerly assistant chief mechanical engineer of New Zealand Railways.

Air AA’. D. Armit, Commissioner of Grown lands and chief surveyor for the Taranaki lands district, has received advice of his transfer on promotion as Commissioner of Crown lands for the North Auckland district. -

The death occurred yesterday at Gisborne, after a brief illness, ot Air William Howard Buswell, engineer to the Poverty Bay Electric Power Board since its inception in 1926, and for fourteen years previously electrical borough engineer, states a Press Association message. He was aged 54 years.

Mr Neil H. Colquhoun, secretary of the Oamaru R.S.A., topped the polls with good majorities in the Oamaru Borough Council and AVaitaki Hospital Board elections, being the first candidate to have polled over 2000 votes in an Oamaru local body election. Mr Colquhoun is a brother of Mr J. A. Colquhoun, of Palmerston North. Canon H. It. B. Gillespie, vicar of Morrinsville, has been appointed archdeacon of Waikato. Ho will retain his canonrv at St. Peter’s Cathedral as canon-in-charge of the mission work in the diocese. Archdeacon Gillespie obtained his M.A., B.D. and LL.B. degrees at Trinity College, Dublin. He came to New Zealand in 1923, and was vicar at Helensville and Okato. The annual Diocesan Synod opened in Wellington to-day. Canon G. Woodward (vicar of All Saints’ parish) will leave to attend the assembly to-morrow, but ltevs. C. E. Hyde and F O. Ball are at present in Wellington with Mr O. Monrad as one of the lay representatives. Rev. D. J. Davies (vicar of St. Peter’s Church) left for the Capital City yesterday. Mr B. J. Jacobs was, at last night’s meeting of the Palmerston North branch of the R.S.A., re-elected to the position of president for the 15th successive year. In referring to the great amount of work Mr Jacobs had accomplished for the association, Mr F. J. Patterson paid a very high tribute to the president. Later in the meeting, Mr Jacobs was appointed the association’s delegate to the annual meeting of the N.Z.R.S.A.