PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 120, 19 April 1944, Page 4

PERSONAL

Included in an official list of members of the 2nd N.Z.E.F. who have recently returned to New Zealand is the name of Temporary Staff-Sergeant C. S. Panting, of Palmerston North. The death has occurred of MajorGeneral Joly de Lotbiniere, late Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government of Bengal and a member of the Bengal Legislative Council, states a London message. He was chief engineer of the Anzac Corps on Gallipoli. Exceptional ability as a navigator during bombing raids over Germany on the part of Flying-Officer J. S. Leech, of Waikiekie, North Auckland, has earned for him the award of the D.F.C., states a Press Association message.

Mr D. S. Wylie, F.R.C.S., has decided to contest a seat on the Palmerston North Hospital Braird at the local body elections next month. Mr Wylie is at present honorary consulting surgeon to the Hospital. He served the institution as 'honorary surgeon for a number of years, retiring from the full staff some time ago.

Canon 11. J. Stanton, vicar of Otahuhu for the last 13 years, has been appointed to the vicarage of Devonport in succession to Rev. B. R. Brierley, who has been transferred to Tauranga. In his 30 years' service in the Auckland diocese Canon Stanton has been the assistant curate at St. Baraabas's, Mount Eden, and St. Mary's Cathedral. He was appointed to Ellerslie in 1924 and Otahuhu in 1931. Rev. Dr. John Henderson, of Juniper Green, Edinburgh, has arrived in Auckland from Scotland. Dr. Henderson was appointed by the Presbyterian Assembly to be professor of theology and Church history at the Theological Hall, Knox College, Dunedin. He graduated M.A. at Edinburgh in 1926 and studied for a year in Germany. In 1940 he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the Edinburgh University. Dr. Henderson is accompanied by Mrs Henderson.

The Minister of Industrial Manpower (Mr McLagan) and the secretary of the New Zealand Shop Assistants' Federation (Mr A. W Croskery) have been selected by ballot to represent the New Zealand Federation of Labour at the World Trade Unioj» Congress to be held in London. Mr F. D. Corn well, secretary of the federation, said to-day that the congress is due to open on June 5. Mr McLagan is president of the federation and Mr Croskery vice-president.—Press Association.

The death occurred on Good Friday of Mr Harry Edwards, of Bulls, in his 72nd year. Mr Edwards was one of the older identities of Bulls and was well-known and respected in the district. He was born in Hastings, Sussex, and came to New Zealand with his parents at the age of six. He spent his school and early manhood days in Bulls and later entered business at New Plymouth, where he lived for some years. He returned to Bulls in 1909 and retired from business in 1920 He is survived by his wife,, a daughter Mrs W. Green, of Bulls, and three sons Messrs C. H. Edwards and A. V. Edwards, of Bulls, and H. Edtrards who is serving with the R.A.F in India.