PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 111, 12 April 1937, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Air J. Wallace Smith, manager of the Alassey College dairy factory, returned to Palmerston North last evening from a short holiday trip to Suva.

Senior-Sergeant G- Mclntyre, of the Palmerston North Police Station, accompanied by Mrs Mclntyre, left Palmerston North to-day on a holiday tour of the North Island. Rev. S. W. tVebber, of "Westport, has been appointed minister of the Presbyterian Church at Otorohanga in succession to Rev. T. 11. Burton, who has been called to Marton. The friends of Rev. A. Blakemore, minister of the Cuba Street Methodist Church, who underwent an operation last week, will be pleased to learn that he is making a satisfactory recovery.

The friends of Mr and Mrs J. P. Stubbs, of Albert Street, will be pleased to learn that their son, J. A. (Jim) Stubbs, who underwent an operation tor appendicitis yesterday, is making very. satisfactory progress. Mr J. K. Hornblow, chairman of the Palmerston North Hospital Board, who has been an inmate of the Hospital for some time, was reported by the authorities to-day to have passed a very good night, although his condition is still serious.

Mr and Mrs C G. C. Dertner, of Cheltenham, with their two sons, leave for Auckland to-night en route to England on a holiday trip. Mr Bernier, who is chairman of the Manawatu-Oroua Power Board, attended a mepting of the board to-day before '’his departure.

Mr Johannes C. Andersen, M.8.E., F.It.S.N.Z., has retired after a long and distinguished career in the Public Service. “Mr Andersen’s work as a writer is, we hope,* by no means at an end, 1 but his career as librarian of the Alexander Turnbull Library ceased on March 31 last,” states the bulletin of the New Zealand Library Association. “The Turnbull Library has, under Mr Andersen’s guidance, become in many ways a finer collection than it was when he was appointed to the librarianship.”