PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 138, 13 May 1941, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Washington report states that President Roosevelt- has fully recorded after his illness.

At a.meeting of delegates representing the brandies ill all parts of the Otaki electorate last night. Mr B. Y'. Cooksley was chosen as official National candidate for Otaki.

The Dean of Hamilton, Very Rev. T. P. YYeatherhog. has been appointed chaplain of a hospital ship. Dean YY catherhog was horn in England ancl served in the British Red Cross and the Navy during the Great AY ar. He canto to New Zealand in 1921. Private cable advice has been received in Palmerston North irotn Lance-Corporal Brian Edmundson. of the Second N.Z.K.E.. who formerlyresided in the -1* eilding district, that he is safe and well. A similar message ras been received from Trooper James Lament, who underwent an operation in Egypt a short time ago.

YY'ing-Commander AT. AY r . Buckley, AT.B.E., till recently commanding officer of the New Zealand Bomber Squadron in Britain. has been promoted to tlie rank of group-captain. He lta.s returned to take command of the station at which the New Zealand squadron has its headquarters. AY'ingCommander C. E. Kay, 8.F.C., 0.8. E., is now commanding the New Zealanders.

The Minister of Education (Afr H. G. R. Afason) and the Director of Education (Dr C. E. C. Bcehy) were visitors to Palmerston North to-day, when they attended and addressed the refresher' course for teachers being conducted at the,-Central School. The visitors were met by Air AA T . H. Brown (a member of the Wanganui Education Board) and'- Mr G. N. Boulton (secretary of the hoard). ATr Alasou and Dr Bcehy. accompanied by Afr Boulton, left later in the day fnr Wanganui. where they- visited another refresher course.

Information that Sergeant-Observer Basil Openshaw, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Edward Openshaw, Marton, was the top ranking graduate of a class of New Zealand airmen who l completed their training last March at a school in Canada is contained in the St. Thomas Times-Journal, a newspaper published in St. Thomas, Ontario. Before joining the Royal New Zealand Air Force last'year. SergeantObserver Openshaw. who is 33 years of age, was; a wireless operator for seven years on the sea-going staff of the Union Steamship Company.

London. —Radio Toulouse.—quoting a Bucharest report, states that what was described as a gas eruption occurred in the Rumanian oilfields.