PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 194, 18 July 1939, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr. W. H. Hartnell, of the local State Advances Office, has been transferred to the Wanganui branch and takes up his new duties next week. The Mayor (Mr A. E. Mansford) is confined to his bed with influenza. For this reason, he was unable to attend the meeting of the Palmerston North Hospital Board yesterday. The friends of Mr. E. G. Matthews, chairman of the committee of the Palmerston North branch of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, will regret to learn that he is suffering from influenza.

Colonel E. Puttick, D. 5.0., officer commanding the Central Military District, has been appointed an aide-de-camp (additional) to the King. He is tlie senior colonel of the New Zealand Military Forces. A vote of sympathy with Rotarian A. J. Phillipps on the death of his mother, Mrs. A Phillipps, of Palmerston North, was carried at the weekly Luncheon of the Palmerston North Rotary Club, yesterday. Dr. McCreath, who has been a house surgeon at the Palmerston North Hospital for seven months, ha 6 arranged to exchange positions, for personal reasons, with Dr. Jack, of the Gore Hospital. The Hospital Board yesterday endorsed the arrangements made.

Rev. Canon G. Y. Woodward, vicar. Rev. D. V. de Candole, curate, and Messrs C. H. Handley and E. Whitcombe are visiting Wellington as representatives of the All Saints’ Church at the Anglican Synod, which opened to-dav. Rev. F. S. Ramson is representing St. Peter’s Church, Terrace End, with Mr G. G. Priest. A tribute to the memory of a former member, the late Mr. S. Caley, was paid at the annual meeting of the Manawatu Tramping Club last night. Mr. Caley was one of the most respected members, said the chairman (Mr. W. H. Galbraith), and one of the stalwarts of the club. All present stood in silence as a mark of respect.

Tributes to Mr. William Wallace, past president of the Hospital Boards’ Association and a former member and chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board, were paid at a recent meeting of the executive of the asociation. Mr. Wallace was presented with a cheque, the amount of which had been subscribed by various hospital boards.

The death occurred in Timaru on Sunday of Mr Jack O'Leary, a son of the late Mr and Mrs Humphrey O’Leary, of Masterton. Many years ago Mr O’Leary left Masterton to reside in Timaru. He represented Wairarapa and South Canterbury at football. He leaves a widow and three grown-up daughters as well as two brothers. Mr Joe O’Leary (Masterton) and Mr Humphrey O’Leary (Wellington) and four sisters, Mesdame6 Peters (Masterton), Ascott (Wanganui), McKenna (Ashlmrst), and J. Brophy (Palmerston North).

The Now Zealander referred to in a cablegram yesterday, who had been expelled from the Italian Tyrol, where he was spending a climbing. holiday, is Mr Alan Priestley Thomson, only son of the late Dr. Alan Thomson, first New Zealand Rhodes Scholar. He joined the Forestry Department about four years ago and was stationed in Palmerston North. About two years ago Air. Thomson left to further his studies in forestry in Europe. After a prolonged tour of the various countries which specialise in forestry, Mr. Thomson received an appointment in French Equatorial Africa, hut had apnnrentl.v recently returned to England. He was a prominent mountaineer in New Zealand, and had scaled almost every mountain peak in both islands.