PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 265, 8 October 1940, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Judge J. Olney, of- San Bernadino, California, has arrived to spend a month’s holiday in this, country.

Rev. L. H. Ker, M.A., of Knox Presbyterian Church, Gonville, Wanganui, has received a call to Strath Taieri (Middlemarch), in the South Island, and will leave next month for liis new parish.

The friends of Mr and Mrs J. L. Davies, of Terrace End, will be pleased to learn that their son, Pilot-Officer Oakden Davies, who is in England, is fit and well, a. cable to this effect having been received during the week-end.

The death is reported from America of General Bailington Booth, a son of the founder of the Salvation Army. In 1896 he left the Salvation Army to form a religious organisation called the Volunteer Army. He was 81 years of age.

The son of the New Zealand High Commissioner (Mr W. J. Jordan), Pilot-Officer W. Jordan, has passed his Master of Arts examination at St. Andrew’s University. ITe obtained leave from the It.A.F. to sit for the examination, states a London message. Professor C. P. McMeekan, of Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, and formerly of the staff of Massey College, was a visitor to the weekly luncheon of t'he Palmerston North Rotary Club to-day. He has been ip Palmerston North on business since Friday.

Dr. Lindsay Rogers, eon of Mrs D. H. Rogers, of Roslyn, Dunedin, has been apj>ointed surgeon-specialist in a British military base hospital, and promoted to the rank of major. Dr. Rogers left New Zealand in February last to enlist in the British Army and since then has been attached to a field ambulauce unit.

The appointment of Colonel W. H. Cunningham to command the Bth New Zealand Infantry Brigade Group, which is now in training, is announced in the Gazette. A lawyer b- profession. Colonel Cunningham served in Egypt, Gallipoli, and France during the last war, and was wounded on Gallipoli. He was mentioned four times in dispatches and was awarded the D.S.O. Sergeant Colin McKenzie Laird, R.N.Z.A.F., who has been reported missing on air operations, is an old. boy of the Wanganui Technical College. On leaving school he joined the clerical staff of the Railway Department and was stationed at the Hutt Workshops, Wellington. He joined the Air Force shortly after the outbreak of war and trained as a gunner at Ohakea going overseas this year. A brother is with the N.Z.E.F. in Egypt. Mr E. T. Crutchley., Public Relations officer to the British Post Office since 1935, has died at the age of 62. He suffered a heart attack on returning from a conference at the Ministry of Information. Mr Crutchley, who served throughout the last war in the Royal Engineers (Army Postal Service), was the British Government Representative for Migration in Australia in 1928 and represented the British Government in Australia from 1931 to 193-5. He was Assistant Under-Secre-tary at the Dominions Office during part of 1936 and 1937.