PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 94, 21 March 1939, Page 8

PERSONAL.

A message from Perth says that Miss May Holman. M.L.A., the first woman memlver of Parliament in Australia. has died from injuries suffered in a motor accident on Friday. She had been a Labour memlver of the Legislative Assembly since 1925. and was re-elected at the general election on Saturday. A London cablegram reports the death of Sir S. Henry Lunn, M.P., a vice-president of the League of Nations. The late Sir Henry, who was in his seventy-ninth year, was a lifelong worker in the cause of international goodwill He was Commander of the Order of tlie Redeemer. Greece; vicepresident of the Liberal Council; vicepresident. of the League of Nations Union; honorary president of the Anglo-Hellenic League. Athens; and a Fellow of the Boval Society of Medicine. After a brilliant career at Dublin University, he went to India as a medical missionary in ISB7, but was invalided home the following vear. In the interests of the Liberal Party he contested the Bostin Dwision. Lincolnshire, in 1910. and Brighton in 1923. He was British treasurer of the Universal Conference of Life and AYork at Stockholm in 1925. and was British chairman of the World Conference of Faith and Order held at Lausanne in 1927. During the previous year lie visited Canada, New Zealand, and Australia in the course of a world tour in support of the League of Nations Union.