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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 267, 13 October 1941, Page 4

PERSONAL

Notice of his transfer to.take charge of the American consulate at Bradford, England,* has been received by Mr J. G. Groeninger, who has been American consul in Auckland for the past four and a half years. Air G. Stening, of Christchurch, has been appointed an honorary life governor of the British and Foreign Bible Society by its London committee as a mark of recognition of the zeal and ability he lias shown in the affairs of the society. ' Air W. Alann, of Savage Crescent. Palmerston North, has been notified that his sou, Gunner G. Mann, who was in the Greek and Cretan campaigns and was posted as missing, is. now reported to be a prisoner of war at Stalag A 7 11111, Germany. Rev. H. L. Ficbi;::, 8.A., minister of the Cuba Street Alethodist Church, is visiting Wellington to participate in the centennial celebrations of the Taranaki Street Sunday School. Air Fiebig, who is accompanied by Airs Fiebig, passed through all departments of the school in his youth and in recognition of this association preached at one of the special services yesterday. General Auehinleck (Commauder-in-Chief in the Aliddle East) has approved of Uic immediate award of a Alilitary Ale.Vl to Lance-Corporal Herbert Padlie, of a railway operating company of thc New Zealand Engineers, for gallantry on July 8, 194.1, states the official correspondent of the N.Z.E.F. Corporal Padlie was in a military escort accompanying the engine-driver of a train which was attacked on the Western Desert line on the morning of July 8. His action in applying the brake so as to bring the train to a standstill and subsequently instructing an officer bow to complete the operation and shut off the.steam, which his own personal strength did not permit him to do while suffering from at least four body wounds, showed courage of a high order and devotion to duty worthy of recognition.

Believed to be the solo surviving member of a party of soldiers from the New Zealand Force, who entered the Maori pa at the siege of Parihaka on November 5, 1881, to arrest the troublesome Maori leader, Te Wliiti, Mr Edward George Parkinson, has died at his home in Marton. Born at Turakina, the late Mr Parkinson in 1886 married Eliza, daughter of Charles Follett, one of the pioneer settlers of Rangitikei, who had a farm where the new Marton Post Office now stands.. His wife died in 1911, and there is one son, Mr A. C. AI. Parkinson (Marton) of this union Edward Parkinson married a second time in 1915, to Ada Harriet Hatcher and besides his wife leaves three children—two sons, Ralph Edward Parkinson (Palmerston North), Harold George Parkinson (N.Z.E.F,, in Fiji), ‘and one daughter, Aliss AJarjorie Parkinson (Marton).