PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 276, 21 October 1937, Page 8

PERSONAL.

The Dannevirke county engineer, Mr G Harris, lias commenced 12 months leave prior to bis retirement on superannuation. Mr Harris has occupied the position of engineer for 32 years. Congratulations on his appointment ns a vice-president of the New Zealand Technical Association were conveyed to Mr M. H. Oram, of Palmerston North, at yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui Education Board. The death has occurred of Mr John Inglis Nicol Mackie, of Kumeroa, at the age of 81 years. The late Mr Mackie, who had been in ill-health for some time, was very well known in sporting and agricultural show circles.

Messrs P. G. Stevens (Feilding), W, J. Slack (Bunnythorpe), H. J. Lancaster (Manawatu), D. Walker (Tiakitaliuna), A. L. Wheeler (Marton) and M. D. Murray (Woodviile) were judges of stock div,>V.ns at the Hawke’s Bay A. and P. Snow, Which opened at Tomoana yesterday.

By the retirement at the end of the month of Captain R. S. Judson, V.C., D.C.M., M.M., New Zealand Staff Corps, Auckland militaiw circles in particular will lose one of the most distinguished and popular of serving officers. Captain Judson has reached the age limit lor his" rank, and is being transferred to the retired list. It came to the notice of the Wanganui Education Board, yesterday, that a member of its teaching staff, Mr M. F. Henry, of Oroutoha, who was formerly engaged in the. profession ill Palmerston North, had been awarded a Royal Humane Society medal for ■rescuing two persons from drowning at Paekakariki last January. Congratulations to Mr Henry were expressed by the chairman, Mr E. F. Hemingway.

A well-known stock judge, Mr A. E. Filmer, of Victoria, who has been a visitor in the Dominion for the past six weeks, was an interested spectator of the judging at the Hawke’s Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society’s show yesterday. Mr Filmer, who is here for the purposes of inspecting New Zealand stock and seeing the best part of the country, intends visiting the Royal Show at Palmerston North next month. He will later inspect the Corriedale flocks in Canterbury. The recent death of Mr F. G. A. Stuckey, who at one time was senior inspector in the Wanganui Education Board’s district, was referred to at the monthly meeting of the board yesterday by the chairman, Mr E. F. Hemingway who said Mr Stuckey’s passing was a distinct loss to education m New Zealand. During his term of office in the Wanganui district he proved himself to be a most energetic and capable officer, said Mr Hemingway. He was particularly well informed on all subjects and gave valued assistance to the hoard.