PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 199, 23 July 1937, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Hon. Adam Hamilton, Leader of the Opposition, will visit Palmerston North on August 2. Mr Hamilton will deliver a political address in,this city. Dr. Muriel Emma Bell, M.D., and Hon. J. Alexander, have been appointed members of the Board of Health, under the Health Act, for a period of three years, according to a Gazette notice last night. Mr A. Gordon, of Ruahine Street, celebrated his eighty-ninth birthday yesterday and was the recipient of numerous congratulatory messages. Formerly a farmer in the Rangitikei district, Mr Gordon has for some years lived in retirement in Palmerston North.

Mr M. H. Oram, of Palmerston North, was appointed as the board’s delegate to the annual conference of the Technical .Education Association by the Wanganui Education Board at its meeting this week. Mr Oram is at present in Wellington attending the New Educational Fellowship and a meeting of Victoria College Council. Professor H. R. Hamley. professor of education in the Institute of Education, University of London, will arrive at Wellington from England next Wednesday, accompanied by Mrs Hamley and their son and daughter. Professor Hamley is a Victorian by birth, and was formerly principal of the Secondary Training College, Bombay, and lecturer in mathematics at Teachers’ College, Columbia University. Mr J. H. Stevens, of Church Street, received numerous congratulations yesterday on the celebration of his eightyfirst birthday. Mr Stevens, who has lived in the city for many years, hails from the Parewanui district in Rangitikei. He first set foot in Palmerston North 70 years ago when he was on a pigeon-shooting expedition. It was a happy coincidence that with yesterday morning’s mail Mr Stevens received his Coronation Medal. Mr Alfred Southey, a well-known resident of the Wairarapa, passed away yesterday, at Masterton. Mr Southey was born in 1854 in the stockade at the Hutt, and went to the Wairarapa with his parents when ho was a child. He had resided there ever since. In 1881 he married Miss Rose Burling, Tinui, and for many years was engaged with a bullock team and wagon in farm work in various parts of the Tinui and Castlepoint districts. He recently went to reside in Masterton. Ho is survived by a widow, sons and three daughters.

The death has occurred of Mr Henry Donald Forsyth, for long a prominent figure in the dairj’ing industry in Taranaki and the Dominion, at the age of 65 years. The late Mr Forsyth was one of the early directors of the Eltham Dairy Company, and was chairman for 14 years. He was a director of the New Zealand Meat Bacon Packing. Company, Ltd., of which he was the original chairman, and a director also of the Egmont Box Company, New Zealand Co-opera-tive Marketing Association, and the New Zealand Rennet Company, Ltd. In the Great War the price of rennet reached unprecedented heights, anil Mr Forsyth originated the New Zealand Rennet Company, and was chairman for many years. In 1913 Mr Forsyth and others discussed what later became the Dairy Produce Board, and Mr Forsyth was elected one of the first members of the board on its inception ten years later. He was a member for nine years.