PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 74, 24 February 1938, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Professor G. S. Peren, principal of Massey College, has returned from a visit to the South Island. Rev. J. R. Nelson, Otaki, was granted 12 months’ relief j from : his'duties, so that he may recuperate his . health, by the Methodist Conference yesterday. - i'lV v . Mr J. McSweeny, foreman of the 'Palmerston Norjth; Fire .Brigade, is representing the brigade at : the Dominion conference of tUe .U.nited Fire Brigades’ Association at New; Plymouth. Mr R. G. Nelson*, publicity director in New Zealand' ’for' the Universal Film Manufacturing Coy,’ Ltd., ;is at present visiting Palmerston North in the course of a tour of the Dominion. Mr H. R. Rhodes, who for many years has been a buyer for the C. M. Ross Co'., has resigned 'from their service in order to take up ah important position in Christchurch. He left for the South to-day. .

A message from - Tucson (Arizona) states that General • Pershing’s physician says his condition is serious. General Pershing was Commander-in-Cliief of the American Expeditionary Forces in the Great War.' . Dr. G. H. Huckei, of the New York State Agricultural .Experimental Station, who has been conferring . with officers of the New Zealand Agricultural Department on I the eradication of cattle diseases ahd frequently .visited Palmerston North,’ left for Vancouver on Tuesday. He was' accompanied by Mi's Huoker. . . _