PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 220, 17 August 1939, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr V. Pemberton, who has been secretary of the Taita School Committee for “the last 20 years, has resigned from the committee as lie is leaving to live in the Levin district. Mr A. C. Morton, of Palmerston North, was welcomed back at the meeting of the general committee of the Manawatu and West Coast- A. and P. Association, yesterday, after his recent illness.

Sympathy with Air H. Bennett, of Church Street, was expressed at the annual meeting of the Terrace End Bowling, Croquet and Tennis Club, last evening. Air Bennett is confined to his home with an illness.

It was reported by the Lewisham Hospital authorities last night that the condition of the Prime A 1 blister (Bt. Hon. AI. J. Savage) continued to be satisfactory. Hon. P. C. Webb’s condition was reported to bo satisfactory also.

The superintendent (Air P. A. Alilverton; and third officer (Air J. AleSweeney) arc attending the annual conference of the Institute of Fire Engineers, which opened in AVellington yesterday, on behalf of the Palmers'ton North Fire Brigade.

Hon. F. Langstone (Alinister of Lands), who was the New Zealand Government representative at the International Labour . Conference at Geneva, is returning from England with Airs Langstone by the Dominion Monarch', due at Wellington on September S.

Mr A. Baxter, a graduate of Theological Hall, Dunedin, has been appointed assistant-minister of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Palmerston North, and will commence his duties ou November 1. Air Baxter, who has a fine scholastic record, later intends to proceed to Scotland to further his studies.

, The death occurred yesterday afternoon at his residence, in Wellington of Captain William Shilling, who was. in his 91st year, and who was for many years a pilot in the service of the Wellington Harbour Board, He retired from the service in 1913, but during the War years he was re-engaged temporarily as a pilot.

A visitor to Hie city, yesterday, for the dinner of the Palmerston North section of the Bank Officers’ Guild was Air C, A. B. Brunt, of Wellington, general secretary of the New Zealand Bank Officers’ Guild. Air Brunt, who was formerly in the service of the National Bank of New Zealand in Palmerston North, was the guest of Air W. J. G. Wyllie, of Bussell Street, overnight. A vote of sympathy with Air J. F. Lynch, of Whakarongo,. a director, who is an inmate of a private hospital in Palmerston North, was passed at the annual meeting of the Awahuri Dairy Coy., Ltd., yesterday, and a letter in this regard will be sent to him. A vote of sympathy with Air N. It. Boyd (dairy instructor), who recently underwent an operation to his eyes, was also carried.

“Alembers will be more than pleased that Air A. F. AloMurtrie, the board’s former senior inspector, ,lias been promoted to the position of chief inspector of primary schools for the Dominion, and they will all agree with me that ,ihe promotion has been well and faithfully earned,” said the chairman of the AVanganui Education Board (Mr E. F. Hemingwav) at the monthly meeting of the board, yesterday, in moving that the hoard congratulate him. Colonel J. H. AVhyte seconded the motion, which' was carried.