PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 119, 19 April 1934, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr G. H. Bennett,, of Palmerston North, retiring president of the New Zealand Booksellers’ Association, is visiting Wellington. The consecration of Archdeacon W. A. R. Fitchett, M.A., as Bishop of Dunedin Diocese, will take place on St. Barnabas’s Day, June 11. Rev. R. J. Howie, 8.A., who is leaving St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Wellington, for Malvern, Victoria, will sail from Wellington on Friday for Sydney. Mr R. A. Parkhill, Australian Post-master-General, has left for Ottawa, where he will be the guest of Mr R. B. Bennett, the Prime Minister, states a cable message. Distinguished visitors to the Melbourne Centenary will include John Masefield, p«oet laureate. As far as records show, this will be the first occasion on which, a laureate has visited Australia. The death has occurred at Christchurch of Captain Gilbert Brown, aged 92 years, who for 40 years was a wellknown figure in the coastal shipping trade in New Zealand. His last discharge was dated 1925, when he was 82 years of age. Mr E. C. Fussell, who has been appointed to the staff of the Governor of the New Zealand Reserve Bank, was presented with a handsome writing bureau on severing his connection with the National Bank of New Zealand, Ltd., to take up his new appointment. Resolutions of sympathy were passed by the general committee of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association, yesterday, with Mr M. A. Eliott in the sad loss lie liad suffered through the death of his brother in Auckland, and with Mr C. Cornford a prominent judge, in the bereavement he had suffered through the death of his mother at Wellington.