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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 306, 23 November 1934, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr W. Bromley, deputy-chairman of the Unemployment Board, visited Palmerston North yesterday oil business connected with the department and returned to Wellington in the afternoon.

At a welcome given at Auckland to Squadron-Leader Hewett and Flying Officer Kay, tlie latter received a silver tray suitably inscribed, and the former a fountain pen, as a memento of their first direct flight from England to New Zealand.

Brigadier-General Alexander Ross, C.M.G., D. 5.0., Dominion president of the Canadian Legion, and senior Canadian delegate to the recent British Empire Service League conference at Melbourne, is expected at Wellington on Monday next by the Maunganui from. Sydney. The retirement is announced of Mr G. McLeod, manager of the Christchurch branch of the Union Bank of Australia, Ltd., since 1931. Mr McLeod joined the bank in Dunedin in 1892, and after 10 years was appointed manager at Hamilton. Thereafter he was manager at Wanganui, Gisborne and Hastings before going to Christchurch.

Dr. Frederick Paul Keppel, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, will visit New Zealand early in the new year to acquaint himself with the activities of the corporation in the Dominion. Dr. Keppel, who will be accompanied by Mrs Keppel, will spend 28 days in this country. Palmerston North and Feildmg will be included in their itinerary. The death occurred at Wellington on Tuesday, at the age of 65 years, of Rev. W. Y. K. Chan, who, with Rev. A. Don (who also died recently), founded the first Chinese Presbyterian Church in Otago at Dunedin, about 1897. Later Mr Chan returned to China to study at the Canton American University, where he graduated. While in China he met Rev. G. H. MeNeur, the pioneer New Zealand Presbyterian missionary in China, and was associated with him in the establishment of the first Presbyterian mission in Canton. On returning to New Zealand, Mr Chan was ordained at St. John’s Presbyterian Church, Wellington, on November 10, 1904. He worked for some eight or nine years in Otago, and later assisted Rev. W. Mawson to. found the Chinese Presbyterian Church in Auckland. He was widely read in the philosophy of Confucius.

Mr F. L. W. Wood, lecturer in history at Sydney University, who has accepted the chair of history at Victoria University College, Wellington, is a son of the late Professor G. Arnold Wood, who was for many years Challis professor of history at Sydney University. He graduated Bachelor of Arts of Sydney University in 1925, with the University medal and firstclass honours in both history and philosophy. After proceeding to Balliol College, Oxford, lie graduated Bachelor of Arts with firstclass from the final honours school of modern history at Oxford University in 1928. He took the Oxford degree of Master of Arts in 1931. Mr Wood was appointed lecturer in history at Sydney University in 1930. He is the author of several books, “The Constitutional Development of Australia” was published last year ; and “A Short History of Australia” is now in the press.