PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 76, 26 February 1938, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr C. A. Burgess has been elected by the council of the New Zealand Golf Association to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr O. H. Andrews.

Dr A. F. Ritchie Crawford, of Invercargill, was unanimously re-elected president of the National Rifle Association at the annual meeting of the association at Trentham last night.— Press Association.

Mr E. P. Kerry, of Sydney, who is the musical adjudicator at the New Zealand brass band contest which concludes in Palmerston North to-day, and who was also the judgo at last year’s contest, announced last evening that the present contest would be the last at which he would adjudicate. “I have had many years at the job,” he said, “and I intend to finish my musical career at the end of this year.”

Recent visitors to the Marist Fathers Theological College, “Highden,” include Very. Rev. Father D. Hurley, S.M. (Provincial of "Society of Mary in New Zealand) ; Father T. B. Segrief, S.M., “Glenlyon,” Brisbane; Father J. Roche, S.M., Suva, Fiji; and Father M. Mulcaliy, D.D., Greenmeadows. Brother Kevin, S.M., represents the lay brothers’ community at the present Catholic Centennial celebrations in Auckland. For over 25 years secretary of the North Island Brass Bands’ Association and for some years its president, Mr E. It. B. Holben. of Palmerston North, was yesterday unanimously elected a life member of the association in appreciation of his service to the hand movement. “We jealously guard against any inclination to be too free with life membership privileges,” said the president (Mr E. Palliser) “but this is a case full of real merit.”