PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 73, 23 February 1938, Page 8

PERSONAL

The friends of Mr G. AY. Keeling wi]l regret to learn that he entered a private hospital to-day in order to undergo an operation. Mr J. P. Beattie. Sn of Mr and Mrs A. N. Beattie of AYest End, has had the destination of gaining top marks for New Zealand in the Plumbers’ Board written examination.

Mr W. D. Reid, of the mycological section of tlie Plant Diseases Division, Palmerston North, leaves for England shortly to undertake research work for twelve months. He will be accompanied by Mrs Reid and family. The Otago Rugby Union committee has decideu to support the nominations of Messrs Mc.Phail. of Canterbury, and Maddison, of Hawke’s Ray, as the New Zealand delegates to the conference in Africa in July next.

To visit the world’s principal museums under the auspices of the Carnegie Corporation of Mew York, Or W. R. B. Oliver, Director of the Dominion Museum, Wellington, will leave Wellington at the end of next week. He expects to he absent about eight months.

A motion of sympathy with Mr K. H. Meade, of Palmerston North, in the illness of Mrs Meade, was passed at the annual meeting, in Palmerston North, last evening, of the Manawatu Hunt Club. Mr Meade holds the position of veterinary surgeon with the club. The secretary is to write to him expressing the meeting’s hopes for the early recovery of Mrs Meade. Mr W. McKenzie submitted his resignation from the position of secretary of the Manawatu Hunt at the annual meeting or the hunt last evening. Messrs S. G. Perry (master) and L. H. Collinson (treasurer) paid a high tribute to Mr McKenzie’s services to the club, which had extended from the small beginnings of the Hunt until now. Mr McKenzie has occupied the position lor over 30 years. A Press Association message announces the sudden death of Mr Percy Cornelius Vinnell, Mayor ,of Timaru. Mr Vinnell was born in England and arrived in New Zealand in 1912. He followed the trade of boot manufacturer. He was an ex-president of the Wellington Bootmakers’ ■ Union. He contested the Timaru seat in 1919 and 1922. He was a member of the Borough Council for many years, first contesting the Mayoralty in 1931.

Sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr C. Louisson was expressed in a motion carried at the annual meeting of the Manawatu Hunt last evening. Mr Louisson, who was president of the Manawatu Racing Club, had always done what he could for the Hunt Club, and had the interests of the club at heart, said the master of the hunt, Mr S. G. Perry. The motion was carried in silence.

Two important appointments in connection with the Workers’ Educational Association in Auckland were made at a meeting of the Auckland University College Council. Mr P. Martin Smith, M.A., LL.B., of Palmerston North, was appointed director of tutorial classes in succession to Mr N. M. Richmond, who recently resigned, and Mr E. M. Higgins, 8.A., of Tasmania, was chosen for the new position of tutor-organiser.

Progress toward recovery is being made by Mr G. C. J. Dalton, of Auckland, one of the two New Zealand Rhodes scholars selected in December, 1936, who contracted infantile paralysis last year shortly before he was to leave for Oxford to take a special epurse in engineering. Mr Dalton expects to leave the Auckland Hospital, where ho is a patient, on Saturday, and will later go to Canterterbury College to continue his studies. In spite of the handicap caused by his illness, Mr Dalton expects to leave at the end of the year for Oxford.