PERSONAE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 137, 12 May 1941, Page 6

PERSONAE.

Advice has been received in Auckland that Brigadier .T. Hargcst, commanding the sth Infantry Brigade, and Brigadier H. E. Barrowelough, commanding the 6th infantry Brigad*-, were evacuated safely from Greece. After having been 40 years in the service of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, Rev. A. C. AVedderspoon, of Invercargill, who is celebrating his jubilee, was congratulated at a meeting of the Southland Presbytery recently.' His Honour, Air Justice Blair, is leaving Palmerston North on Alay 19 to conduct the sessions of the Supreme Court at AA'anganui. This is expected to occupy a week and His Honour will then return to Palmerston North to continue the local session of the Court.

Air AY. ■B. Tennent returned to Palmerston North from Dunedin yesterday. Air Tennent, who has been for some years examiner in operative dentistry and oral surgery for final year students at Otago University visited the southern city for four days conducting the annual examinations.

Pilot-Officer Irving Stanley Smith has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, according to advice received by Air Headquarters, Wellington. Pilot-Otiicer Smith was born at Invercargill in 1917 and educated at the AYiiangarei Junior Higli School and the Seddon Memorial Technical College, Auckland. Dean Lynn Harold Hough, of Drew Theological Seminary, and one ot the outstanding preachers of the United States, and also an author of international repute, is to visit Auckland next Friday on his way to Australia, where he is to deliver the Cato lecture lor 1941. For the past 10 years Dean Hough has occupied for a month each year the pulpit of the City Temple, one of London's chief churches, and recently a target of the German air attack. He is one of the large body of American citizens eager to secure the fullest and most unhesitating aid for Britain.