PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 238, 5 September 1933, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr Walter Strang, a former resident of Palmerston North, is spending a few days here. The death has occurred at Stratford of Mr Adolph Manoy, aged 74, man-aging-director of Manoys, Ltd., and a well-known Taranaki business man. Deceased leaves a widow and three daughters. A call is to be sent'to-Rev. James Baird, of the Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church, Wellington, on behalf of St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Highfield, Timaru, to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Rev. Adam Begg. Dr. W. H. Scotter, the son of Rev. A. N. Scotter and Mrs Scotter, of St. Paul’s Methodist Church, who has been studying in London for some time, has arrived home via Sydney and has taken up a position at the Martinborough High School. Mr John Newton Stephenson, of Opunake, has been appointed secretary to the Diocese of Nelson, in succession to the late Mr James Williams. Mr Stephenson, who at one time was in the service of the Bank of New Zealand, and afterward head clerk for a firm of public accountants, lias been for the last nine years secretary of the Opunake Electric Power Board.

Rev. C. L. B. Brown, who was vicar of Holcianga from 1926 to 1928, and of Whakatane in 1928 and 1929, has been appointed to the charge of the Eton College mission at Hackney Wick, a densely populated area of East London. After leaving Whakatane Mr Brown was at Methven and Waikari, in the Christchurch diocese. He was one of the pioneers of the Toe H movement in New Zealand. After thirty-three year's’ close association with newspaper work, 26 years of which have been spent in Hawke’s Bay, Mr William Charles Whitlock has decided to retire from active participation in journalism. From October 1 next he will relinquish his position as managing-director and editor of the Hawke’s Bay Herald and the Hawke’s Bay Tribune. He will be succeeded by his son, Mr William Arthur Whitlock, who will take up his new duties early in October.

The death occurred suddenly last week of Mr John Ernest Eagle, of Karori, at the age of 85 years. Mr Eagle had been living at Karori for many years, and farmed at Makara previous to taking up his residence there. Mr Eagle ,came to New Zealand when a boy in the ship Gleaner. He was the last surviving son of Mr Robert Eagle, his brother, Mr George Eagle, having predeceased him by three months. He is survived by his widow, a grown-up family of six” sons and four daughters, five grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. The sons are Messrs Robert Eagle, Shannon; John Eagle, Ohau; Charlie Eagle, Karori; William Eagle, Te Horo; and. Stephen and Richard Eagle, Karori. The daughters are Mrs J. Bowler, Shannon; Mrs J. Hoskins, Palmerston North; Mrs E. Allen, Tokomaru; and Mrs L. Smith, Karori. The funeral was largely attended by relatives and friends and many early settlers.