PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 109, 7 April 1934, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Sir Hubert Wilkins, the noted Pola*explorer, is visiting Palmerston North. He proceeds to New Plymouth next Wednesday. Rev. J. R- Blanchard, 8.A., of Wellington, is the guest of Mr and Mrs W. B. Tennent, of Featherston Street, for the week-end. Rev. Father P. J. Smith, parish priest at Thorndon, who has been indisposed for a month past, is at present recuperating at Rotorua. The death occurred suddenly at Wellington yesterday of Brigadier John Edwin Newbold, of the Salvation Army. He was a well-known figure, having served in many parts of New Zealand and Australia. Professor E. F. D’Ath, of the University of Otago, left Dunedin on Tuesday, bouud for Sydney. At Canberra he will attend the Cancer Convention, which has been convened by the Commonwealth Government. His Grace Archbishop Redwood, of Wellington, will 95 years of age tomorrow. There will be no special celebrations to-morrow, but on Monday a dinner will be attended by a few of His Grace’s clerical friends. Messrs T. F. Relling and G. Watchorn have been appointed as delegates from the Palmerston North Wrestling Association to represent that body at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Association to be held in Wellington this month. The death has occurred of Mr Samuel Woodill, farmer, of Wangaehu, near Wanganui. He resided in the Wangaehu settlement for 43 years and was one of the best-known dairy farmers along the coast. At the time of his death he was chairman of directors of the Wangaehu Co-operative Dairy Company, a post he held for a number of years. Among the passengers on board the Maui Pomare, which left Apia for New Zealand yesterday, is the Administrator, Brigadier-General H. E. Hart, who is accompanied by Captain Fairbrother, A.D.C., and Mrs Fairbrother. The Administrator will be away from the territory till the end of May. During his absence Mr A. C. Turnbull, secretary to the Administrator, will be Acting-Administrator. The death occurred at Christchurch yesterday of Mr Walter Martin, aged 80, one of the early settlers of Canterbury, states a Press Association message. He arrived in New Zealand in 1860 and was employed for .many years in the Department of Justice until he retired on account of ill-health. For seven years he was clerk of the District Court and registrar of the High Court of Western Samoa. Since relinquishing those positions about 1925 lie lived in Sydney and Christchurch.