PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 194, 18 July 1941, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Seniors-Sergeant J. Mclntyre; of the Pahnerston North police, is at present indisposed . with influenza, but expects to be, able to resume duty next week. His friends will regret to learn that Constable V. J 3. Arnold, of the Palmerston North police, has received news of the death of his mother, at Nelson. He left for Nelson yesterday to attend the funeral. The death has occurred at Morrinsville of Mr J. E. Leeson, who had been fanning in the district for nearly 40 years and w,as lor many years chairman of directors of the Morrinsvillc Co-operative Dairy Company. He was also a member of the National Dairy Board and was well-known in dairying circles in this district. Mr J. T. Brodie, engineer-clerk to the Weber County Council, has been appointed by the Christclmrch City Council to the newly-created post of city highways engineer. Thirty-one years of age, Mr Brodie became assistant engineer to the Wellington J City Council in 1934, and was engaged chiefly on roading work. He became, c.ngineeriiig-elerk to the Weber County Council in 1939, and evolved new methods of dealing with county roading problems. . Reported missing from raids over : Germany, Sergeant-Gunner B. H. Hartetone, aged 29, son of Mr J. L. ; Hartstone, of Koromatua, was born in Woodville and educated in Auckland. He was employed on his father's farm before enlisting with the Air Force. He left the Dominion last year and took part in his first raid in March. He was one of the Dominion airmen who were entertained by the King at "Windsor Castle, and was a member of the crew of the bomber piloted by Ser-geant-Pilot I. L. Beid. who was also recently reported missing. At the Wellington Diocesan Synod yesterday the Bishop, Bt. Bev. H. St. Barbe Holland, announced that the Cathedral Chapter and the standing committee of the diocese had appointed Bev. N. F. E. Robertshawc, vicar of St. Mark's, Wellington, to be canon in the Cathedral Chapter of St. Paid, in succession to Canon W. G. Williams, who is now living in the diocese of Waipu and who lias been elected to the Napier Cathedral Chapter. Mr H. A. Htifgins has been appointed lay canon in place of Rev. M. Crompton Smith, lay member of the chapter, who has been ordained. A well-known Canterbury farmer, Mr Jolui Dryden Hall, has died at the age of 75. The second son of Sir John Hall, who was Premier from 1879 to 1882, he was born in Christchurch and educated at Oxford, where he won his Rugby Blue. Called to the English Bar in 1889, he later practised in Christchurch until 1912. Mr Hall, who was president of the North Canterbury Farmers' Union for many years, was made a Jife member of the New Zealand Farmers' Union in 1936. He was a member of the board of directors of Massey Agricultural College from its establishment until a few years ago, and was a former president of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association and the New Zealand Council of Agriculture.