PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 255, 25 September 1935, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr D. C. Cameron, of Dunedin, is at present visiting Palmerston North, combining both business interests with pleasure. He is the guest of his brother, Mr W. B. Cameron, Russell Street.

Detective 0. S. Power has returned to Palmerston North from Hastings, where he has been engaged, with others, on enquiries consequent upon the death of the schoolgirl, Joan Rattray, on July 2.

Dr. J. S. Monro returned to Palmerston North on Monday after attending the B.M.A. Congress at Melbourne. It is not expected that Dr. P. T. Putnam, who also attended the congress, will return for two or three weeks yet. Mr S. S. Dean, chairman of the management committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union, left for Auckland last night to join the Rangitane for London, where he is to act, with Mr J. Prendeville, of Wellington, as a New Zealand delegate at. the Imperial Rugby conference in December. Mr Leonard Hewitt, one of tire most prominent business men in Christchurch, passed away yesterday morning. He ivas born in Christchurch and was engaged in the banking profession until 1919, when he resigned his position to enter the Christchurch Stock Exchange, on which he was engaged up to the time of his death.

Mr Kenneth F. Button, youngest son of Mr and Mrs R. L. Button, of Wellington, was ordained at Southwark Cathedral, London, last Sunday, and has been appointed curate of the Catford Parish Church, London. For the last three years Mr Button has been studying at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and at Westcott House, Cambridge. Rev. Francis Henry Taylor, who passed away at Stewart Island recently, was 54 years of age. He was appointed, to the Greytown-Morison Bush charge in May, 1931, going there from Shannon. After a year he was inducted as a home missioner and continued his pastoral duties in Greytown till January, 1935, leaving on transfer to Stewart Island; In recognition of his work towards the re-opening of the Greytown Hospital and of the kindhearted, interest displayed by him in all cases of sickness and injury, he was tendered a public farewell by the citizens and settlers of Greytown prior to leaving for the south. Mr Taylor is survived by a widow and son.