PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 51, 30 January 1937, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr J. Holmes Runnicles, organist for All Saints’ Church, is spending a holiday in Christchurch. Mr T. E. Douds, of the staff of West End School, Palmerston North, has received an appointment as sole teacher in charge of the Konini School.

Mr A. L. M. Williss, who is at present postmaster at Rotorua, has been appointed deputy chief postmaster at Dunedin, and will take up his new duties on February 8. Mr J. Garde Grimshaw has been appointed adjudicator for the elocutionary classes at the forthcoming Wellington Eisteddfod to be held in May next.

Mr W. V. Kingsbeer, of Palmerston North, has enjoyed an improvement in health as a result of his visit to the United States. He is now in the Middle States.

Mr J. Hadfield, who was at one time a member of the telegraphic staff at the Palmerston North Chief Post Office, has been promoted from the position of supervisor of the superintending engineer’s office at Auckland to that of stores manager in Wellington.

Mr Bruce Clegg, of Awapuni, who achieved the scholastic feat of completing the B.A. degree while still a pupil of the Palmerston North Boys’ High School just over a year ago, has now passed the M.A. degree, with second-class honours. He will be warmly congratulated by his friends.

Mr G. Maxwell Davies, formerly a student at Otago University, and later at Massey Agricultural College, who has qualified for the degree of bachelor of agricultural science, was recently appointed assistant farm assessor under the Government Mortgage Corporation, with headquarters at Taumarunui. Rev. D. J. Davies, vicar of All Saints’, Kilbirnie, Wellington, and formerly vicar of St. Peter’6, Terrace End, has accepted an invitation extended to him by the Palmerston North Returned Soldiers’ Association to be the principal speaker at the annual Anzac .Day commemoration service on April 25. Making his first visit to New Zealand, Brigadier-General Sir Joseph Byrne, G.C.M.G., Governor of Kenya, arrived at Wellington from Sydney yesterday. He is attended by his aide-de-camp, Captain R. J. Kay Fenton, and is planning a fishing expedition in various parts of the country. He expects to remain in the Dominion for five weeks.

Formerly a leading bass singer and elocutionist, Mr William Farquhar Young died in Christchurch yesterday. Mr . Young was known throughout the Dominion for his performances in Scottish and Irish concerts, and until recently sang and spoke over the air. He was recognised as having one of the finest bass voices of his time and refused many offers to join opera companies and go abroad. He was for many years in the post and telegraph service, and was the first president of the Post and Telegraph Officers’ Association. He was mainly responsible for the establishment of a superannuation system for the Post and Telegraph Department.