PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 218, 13 August 1940, Page 6

PERSONAL.

The No. 2 Transport Licensing Authority (Mr J. P. 0. Skoglund) held a sitting in Palmerston North to-day, later proceeding to Waipukurau. Next Sunday, at 11 a.m., a memorial plate will be unveiled in St. Peter’s Church, ‘Pahiatua, to the late Mr J. A. Shekleton, who was manager of the Balfour Estate. The Colonial Office announces that Sir Rupert Briercliffe, Director of Medical Services in Nigeria, has been selected for appointment as medical adviser to the comptroller for the development and welfare of the West Indies. —British Official Wireless. Cabled advice of the death of Rev. Robin Adair, formerly of Auckland, has been received from New York. Mr Adair, who was aged 45, left for New York about three years ago to take a post as lecturer in philosophy. In 1932 he was agent for youth work of the Presbyterian Church, and later travelling secretary of the Presbyterian Young Men’s Bible Class Union. Lieut. S. Wilson, formerly a very prominent member of the Palmerston North Garrison Band, of which he was drum-major for several years before enlisting for active service, was met by the committee and members of the band at the railway station, last evening, and presented with a gift. Mr J. A. Nash made the presentation and the conductor, Mr H. Guthrie, also expressed good wishes to Lieut. Wilson. Tile death has occurred in Gisborne of Mr W. E. Goffe, aged 77, an authority on the Maori language. In the early days of the Seddon Government he was appointed the first permanent interpreter at the House of Representatives. In 1894 Mr Goffe was appointed land purchase officer for the Native Department and helped to complete the purchase of t'he Urewera lands now vested in the Crown.

The death has occurred suddenly at Ohakune of Mr Ethelbert Whitney Griffiths, a well-known figure in Auckland tennis circles, at the age of 54. As a player Mr Griffiths’s most notable success was the winning of the New Zealand mixed doubles championship with Miss Marjorie Macfarlane. He shared success in t'he Auckland doubles championship four times between 1921 and 1931, and in 1925 won the Auckland singles title. The Bishop of Waikato (Rt. Rev. C. A. Cherrington), who vi ited Palmerston North for the week-end, has left for Wellington, where he will represent 'his diocese at the annual conference and festival to-morrow concerned chiefly with the Board of Theological Studies, the Church Army and the Board of Missions. Anglican Church people throughout New Zealand subscribed liberally for missions last year, the total amount collected, £18,311. being an increase of £571 over the total for the previous year, enabling the budget for missionary purposes for which New Zealand is responsible to be met. This year, 'however, the call for liberality is likely to be more urgent.