PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 256, 26 September 1935, Page 6

PERSONAL.

The friends of Mr W. Candy, senr., of Milson’s Line, will regret to learn that he is an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital, and will wish him a speedy recovery. Dr. P. T. Putnam, of Palmerston North, who has been attending the annual conference of the British Medical Association in Melbourne, is expected to return on Monday next. Dr. A. Clark Begg, who has been attending the recent B.M.A. Congress at Melbourne, returned by the Wanganella yesterday. Dr. Begg is a brother of Dr. Campbell Begg, of Wellington. Although a New Zealander, ho has been practising in Wales for over 30 years. He will return home via China. Mr G. W. Clinkard leaves New Zealand to-day by the Wanganella to take up the appointment of trade and tourist commissioner to Europe, with headquarters at Brussels. Mr Clinkard will be accompanied by Mrs Clinkard and their son and daughter, and they will leave Sydney by the Mongolia on October 5.

Appreciation of the services rendered by the president (Mr W. Mouldey) was expressed in a resolution carried with acclamation at the meeting of the Manawatu Trotting Club last evening. Mr G. Luoni, in sponsoring the motion, declared that, under the capable direction of the president, the club had made rapid progress in recent years and was now coming well to the front in New Zealand’s light harness sport. Rev. H. Whitby James, vicar of St. Peter’s Church,. Terrace End, since April last, left Palmerston North last evening with Mrs James and their two sons for Auckland. They sail at daybreak to-morrow by the Rangitane for England. They were farewelled at the station by the Mayor and Mayoress (Mr and Mrs A. E. Mansford), the churchwardens and parishioners.

Warm praise for the marked efficiency and tributes to the popularity of the secretary (Mr A. H. Manson) were voiced at the annual meeting of the Manawatu Trotting Club last evening, when he was accorded a vote of thanks for his services. It was stated that a widely-travelled owner had commented that Mr Manson was one of the best trotting club secretaries in New Zealand, and that there was no better managed meeting, even in Australia, than that of the Manawatu Trotting Club.

Advice has been received in Auckland from Norfolk Island of the death of Pastor Thomas Ephraim Adams in his fifty-seventh year. He was a lineal descendant of the spiritual reformer of Pitcairn Island, the famous John Adams. As a young couple Mr and Mrs Adams were pioneer missionaries in the Solomon Islands, and had many thrilling adventures among tire head-hunting savages there. Malaria and three severe attacks of blackwater fever eventually drove him from the mission field. On returning to the land of his birth, Norfolk Island, he regained a fair measure of health. When sickness laid aside the then pastor of the Methodist Church, “Uncle Tom” voluntarily took up the work and for some years filled the position without remuneration. He was a pronounced success, and the New South Whies Conference appointed him as pastor. Under his superintendency the circuit flourished.