PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 287, 1 November 1934, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr L. Thompson, of Glen -Oroua, is spending a holiday in Christchurch. Dr. C. E. Beeby will leave Christchurch next Monday for Wellington to take up his duties as chief executive officer of the New Zealand Council for Educational Research.

Major K. Stewart, N.Z.S.C., who was formerly stationed in Palmerston North and recently returned to New Zealand after being adjutant to the forces at Ceylon for four years, was a visitor to the Spring Show yesterday. After completing his furlough, Major Stewart will be stationed at Dunedin. Mr Alexander Archibald McKenzie, who for the past four years has been instructor and supervisor in the Dairy Division of the Department of Agriculture for the North Island, died at Hawera, aged 58. He had previously managed dairy factories in Hawke’s Bay, Wairarapa, also in the South Island.

Sir James Grose, general manager of the National Bank of New Zealand, Ltd., who is at present in England on a visit to the bank’s board of directors, intends returning to New Zealand by the Rangitata, leaving London on November 15, and due at Auckland about December 19. Sir James left New Zealand for London at the end of May. Messrs A. S. Kidman and T. Phelps, members of the Meat Board of South Australia, who are at present on a business trip to the Dominion, were visitors to the Spring Show to-day. They were met by the president (Mr D. Collis) and members of the general committee, who conducted them round the grounds. Mr Kidman is a nephew of Sir Sidney Kidman, who is well known in Australia’s pastoral activities.

Constable J. F. Grant, who has resigned from the Police Force after 23 years’ service, was met yesterday afternoon by the members of the Palmerston North section and made the recipient of a presentation as a mark of tne esteem in which he is held. Inspector S. Rawle, of New Plymouth, who is in charge of the district during the absence on annual holiday of Inspector P. Harvey, asked Constable Grant to accept a handsome eiderdown quilt as a small memento of the days he had spent on duty in Palmerston North. While the recipient was resigning after a long period of faithful and honourable service, it was pleasing to his former comrades to know that he was remaining in the city. Senior-Sergeant E. J. Whitehouse, Senior-Detective T. Quirke, Sergeant F. Culloty, Constable R. Patterson (district office), and Constable W. R. Miller (senior constable) all eulogised Mr Grant’s record of service and'wished him the best of fortune in his business venture.