PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 254, 25 September 1942, Page 4

PERSONAL

Constable G. Chapman, who is stationed at Palmerston North, lias been obliged to enter hospital for an operation, but is now reported to be making favourable progress. Acting Air-Commodore M. W. Buckley, M.8.E., R.N.Z.A.F., has been appointed an honorary aide-de-camp on the staff of the GovernorGeneral, vice Wing-Commander J. Seabrook, A.F.C., R.N.Z.A.F.

Mrs E. AVycherley, of Palmerston North, has received advice that her son, Cadet Maurice AVycherley, has been commissioned as a temporary sub-lieutenant in the Royal New Zealand Navy. Sub-Lieutenant Wycherley was educated at the. Palmerston North Boys’ High School and Otago University, where he studied dentistry. He left New Zealand in October, 1941, to join the Royal New Zealand Navy under Scheme B.

The death occurred suddenly at AVellington on AVednesday, at the age of 68, of Dr F. AV. Hilgendorf, Director of the AA’heat Research Institute and formerly Professor of Agricultural Botany at Canterbury University College, Lincoln. Dr Hilgendorf, who was bom in Otago, specialised in plant breeding and produced some strains of wheat specially suited to New Zealand conditions. He was wellknown throughout New Zealand and visited Palmerston North periodically in connection with his research work. Ho is survived by two sons, Air Charles Hilgendorf being engaged in farming in Ashburton County, and Air Alurray Hilgendorf, who is an inspector of airfields for the Commonwealth Government in Western Australia.

Air and Airs C. Ladyman, of Church Street, have received the gratifying news that their son, Flight-Lieutenant S. Ladyman, came first in a recent high examination, liis fellow students including men from Cambridge and several other universities. Flight-Lieutenant Ladyman was injured while in England, since when he has done no active flying, but has taken classes in training. Seventeen men were sent from England (including Flight-Lieutenant Ladyman) to Canada, where extensive training in navigation was undertaken. His achievement is all the more remarkable as all the other candidates were men of letters. Flight-Lieutenant Ladyman is an old pupil of the Hokowhitu and Technical Schools and is now in charge of a school of navigation in Canada. At a meeting of the St. Andrew’s Church Social Guild it was decided to forward a message of congratulation to Air and Airs Ladyman on their son’s achievement.