PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 274, 17 October 1933, Page 6

PERSONAL

Their Excellencies Lord and Lady Bledisloe will visit Christchurch for the Cup Week in November and will he the guests of Sir R. Heaton Rhodes at his homestead at “Otahuna.” The full programme for the visit has not yet been arranged. His Honour Mr Justice MacGregor will preside at the sitting of the Supreme Court commencing at Palmerston North next Tuesday.

Mr E. C. Hands, the general manager of the New Zealand Broadcasting Board, returned to Wellington yesterday with Mrs Hands by the Marama from Sydney where he inspected the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s facilities.

Captain Cosmo Graham, R.N., has been appointed honorary naval aide-de-camp to His Excellency the Gov-ernor-General in succession to Captain M. J. C. da Meric, whose period of appointment in that capacity has expired. Pleasure that Mr J. F. McKelvie, of Carnarvon, a committeeman and patron, was now well on the way to recovery from his illness was expressed by the president (Mr D. Buchanan) at tiio meeting of the committee of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association to-day. The committee of the Manawatu A. and P. Association to-day; passed resolutions of condolence with tho families of the late Messrs P. F. O’Connor, Arthur Pickering and Mrs Armstrong, senr. (Akitio) in the bereavements which they had recently suffered.

A Press Association message announces that the death occurred last night after a long illness of Mr Thomas Gunnion, 0.8. E., at the age of 70 years. He was formerly Mayor of Temuka for a period of ten years and had been a resident of the district for sixty years. He had played a prominent part in tho progress of Temuka. A congregational meeting of the Chalmers Presbyterian Church, Timaru, last evening, unanimously decided to extend a call to Rev. E. Llewelyn Williams, 8.A., of the 155th Street Presbyterian Church, New York, and formerly of London, Brighton, and Liverpool, states a Press Association message.

Visitors to the Hawke’s Bay Show this week from the Manawatu and West A. .and P. Association will be Messrs D. Buchanan (president), B. C. Eglinton, J. F. Knight, L. B. Wall, M. A. Conway and W. T. Penny (secretary). Some left for Hawke’s Bay to-day, and others are proceeding there to-morrow.

Mr F. W. K. Raymond, who has been manager of the Te Puke branch of the Union Bank of Australia for the past two years, has received notice of Ins transfer to the position of manager of the Dannevirke branch. Mr D. G. McCallum, of Te Awamutu, will succeed Mr Raymond as manager at Te Puke. The relatives of the late Mr J. H. Bree, late secretary of the Wanganui Education Board, were extended a motion of sympathy in the sad loss they had sustained, at last night’s meeting of the Central School Committee. The chairman (Mr W. G. Black), in paying a tribute to the deceased genileman’s memory, stated that by his death education generally had suffered a severe loss and school committees had lost a good friend.

Prior to the commencement of business at last evening’s meeting of the City Council, the Mayor (Mr A. E. Mansford) made reference to the passing of the late Mr H. E. Holland, Leader of the Opposition. “We may not have agreed with all of the late Mr Holland’s proposals,” he said, “but we all realise the humanitarian feelings prompting a large portion of the legislation he advocated, and the fearless manner in which he actuated his policy.” The Mayor moved that the council forward to Mrs Holland a letter expressing sympathy in her bereavement and trusting that the manifestations of sympathy from all parts of the Dominion would, with those of the Maori people, help to relieve the sorrow experienced. The council stood in silence as a mark of respect to the late Mr Holland. Mr James Arthur Shand, whose death was announced at Wellington yesterday, was born in 1869, the son of the late Mr George Shand, formerly of the Taieri district, Dunedin. He was educated in Dunedin and commenced his journalistic work on the Dunedin Star. Subsequently he removed to Auckland, where his knowledge of mining stood him in good stead. He was also dramatic critic of the New Zealand Herald for a time. In 1899 he left for South Africa as correspondent for a number of New Zealand newspapers, and was with the New Zealand contingents in their advance on Pretoria. On his return to New Zealand he was appointed editor of the Thames Star. His two sons left New Zealand with the Main Body in 1915, and that year Mr Shand resigned from the Star and left New Zealand as officer commanding A Company of the lltli Reinforcements, and later became Assistant Provost-Marshal at Sling Camp, Salisbury, England. On the. conclusion of tho war he returned to New Zealand, and was appointed chief sub-editor of the New Zealand Times, a position he retained until that paper ceased publication. He was then commissioned by the Government to write the official history of the New Zealand contingents in the South African War. He was closely associated with the Returned Soldiers’ Association and the South African Veterans’ Association. For a time he w’as organiser for the United Party s political organisation, and later was publicity agent for Messrs J. C. Williamson, Ltd. Mr Shand leaves a widow, two sons and four daughters.