PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 293, 8 November 1934, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Viscount Chetwynd, aged 71, who is spending a holiday at a British Columbia ranch, sustained a severe shock and painful injuries when a car he was driving ran into a ditch. Prior to liis departure for Auckland, Mr George Sandham was the recipient of a suitcase and good wishes from the staff of the C. M. Ross Coy., of which ho has been a member for the past five and a-lialf years.

Messrs I>. Collis (president), H. E. Kissling (organising secretary), L. H. Collinson and S. R. Thomson, of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association, ave visiting the Spring Show at Wanganui.

Mr K. L. Usmar, representative in the Pariiamentarly Press gallery of the Auckland Star, has been appointed to represent the United Press Association during the New Zealand tour of the Duke of Gloucester. —Press Association.

Mr H. Seifert was to-day re-elected unopposed as chairman of the Makerua Drainage Board for the ensuing year, Mr E. E. Mabin commenting that the chairman had carried out his duties very thoroughly during the past term of office. Mr W. Jackson was appointed deputy-chairman.

The death has occurred in the Palmerston North Hospital of Mr Thomas Harry Colpman, of Waikanae, aged 82. For many years Mr Colpman had been recognised as one of the foremost breeders of cattle, his exhibitions at the various shows on the coast being attended with marked success. Mr E. C. Gillanders, of College Street, Palmerston North, received advice to-day that his brother, Mr James Gillanders, of Hills Road, Christchurch, passed away this morning. Mr E. C. Gillanders left this afternoon for Christchurch, where the funeral will take place to-morrow. The late Mr Gillanders was a prominent member o f the Masonic craft.

Appreciation of the services rendered to the Makerua Drainage Board by the two retiring trustees, Messrs J. H. P. Biggins (Tokomaru) and S. R. Young (Opiki), during their tenure of office, was expressed at the monthly meeting of the board to day, when it was decided to place on record these sentiments. It was stated that Mr Liggins, who did not seek re-election, had been a trustee of the board for ten years.

Mr Harry K. Bourne, B.Sc., an old boy of Auckland Grammar School, has been awarded the British Thomson Houston Fellowship for 19114, under the terms of which he will visit the electric works in New York, Boston, and Cleveland to engage in research work, and will later take up a position in the research department of the British Thomson Houston Company. Mr Bourne is the son of Rev. H. C. Bourne, M.A., who was on the staff of the Auckland Grammar School from 1917 to 1922.