PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 71, 21 February 1939, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr W. P. Norris, of the staff of the General Pos-t Office, Wellington, is acting as postmaster at Levin in the absence of Air E. E. Hirst, wdio is on sick leave.

Mi - . H. E. Kissling, secretary of the Manawatu A. and P. Association, leaves to-morrow evening for Auckland, where he will attend the Auckland Show. The death is announced in a Press Association message from Christchurch of Mr E. D. Mosley, who recently retired from the position of Stipendiary Magistrate' at 'Wellington. For eight and a half years Mr Mosley was a Magistrate in Christchurch.

The death lias occurred of Sir George Wilson, a leading citizen and prominent businessman in Auckland. He was prominent in politics as the Auckland president of the Reform Party and later the National Party. He was a director of several companies and was aged seventy.—Press Association.

Dr R. S. R. Francis, superintendent of the Otaki Sanatorium, will, it was decided by the Palmerston North Hospital Board yesterday, leave in April to spend four months in England at hospitals where lie will study the latest methods of tuberculosis treatment and chest surgery. Subsequently he will spend about a month each in Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland making similar investigations, and he will return to New Zealand at about the end of the year. At a meeting of the Palmerston North Rotary Club, yesterday, a motion of condolence with members who are of the Roman Catholic faith, in addition to all Roman Catholics in the community, in the death of Pope Pius XI was passed. It was stated that the Pope had been an acknowledged leader in many of the things for which Rotary stood. He had been a steady advocate of peace, and, in times like these, the world could ill afford to lose one whose advocacy had been so steadfast. Even at the end, the Pope’s prayer had been lor peace.

Constable .T. J. Harvey, senior police constable in New Zealand, who has served more than forty years in the force, will start three months’ leave of absence on Saturday, after which he will retire on superannuation. Constable Harvey has been in Wellington for twenty years, ten years of which have been spent as orderly in the Supreme Court. In recognition of his position in the force he received a medal at the silver jubilee of the late King George V. When the late King, as the Duke of Cornwall and York, visited New Zealand, Constable Harvey was one of the officers appointed to the tour. —Press Association.