PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 285, 30 October 1934, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Rev. David Calder, 8.A., general secretarA’ of the British and loieign Bible Society, is visiting Palmerston North.

Mr H. It. Sellers, secretary of the New Zealand Racing Conference returned to Wellington by the Makura yesterday morning from a 10 weeks tour of Australia and the East. Hon. E. A. Ransom (Minister of Lands) who has been in hospital in Dannevirke for about a fortnight, is expected to return to his home within a day or so. He will not resume his Ministerial duties for a few more days. The death is recorded in English papers of Dr David Vaughan Thomas, D. who, having been placed on the permanent staff of examiners of the Trinity College of Music for overseas as well as for Great Britain and Ireland, in this capacity paid three visits to New Zealand. He was on his first visit to South Africa when he died. He was 61 years of age. Dr. E. G. Gibbs,. a son of Dr. H. E. Gibbs, of Wellington, returned yesterday by the Makura from Sydney after an absence of ten and a-half years in the Old Country. He spent a year at Knox College, Dunedin, before entering Edinburgh University, where he qualified. Subsequently Dr. Gibbs acted as house surgeon at a number of hospitals, chiefly in London. He intends to settle in New Zealand.

An old resident of Paeroa, Mr Henry Howard Lyes, died in Auckland on October 22'. Mr Lyes went to Paeroa about 30 years ago He had been connected with newspaper work since boyhood, and had been proprietor and editor of several newspapers, including the Waitara Mail, Stratford Post, Waimate Witness (Manaia), the Carterton Mail, the Thames Advertiser, and part proprietor of the Hauraki Plains Gazette, when it was known' as the Ohinemuri Gazette. His work was recognised in the newspaper world as being of a very high standard, and be obtained numerous awards in New Zealand and Australia for artistic designs.