PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLV, Issue 1956, 26 October 1921, Page 5

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Mr C. F. Spooner, of Palmerston North, is at present on a visit to Cambridge. A London cable records the death of Mr John B Dunlop, the inventor of the pneumatic tyre. Mr H*. Grinstead, provisional secretary of the New Zealand Alliance, is spending a few days in Wanganui. The Rev. E. O. Blamires, of Hamilton, who has been 111 for some time, was well enough to leave his bed on Saturday. Mr K. B. Tucker, of the Club Hotel, has returned to Palmerston North from a holiday visit to Australia and Auckland. Mr L. J Bull, postAastcr at Huntcrville, and formerly of Frankton, has received the appointment of inspector to Wellington district. Mr W. F. Massey is to unveil the statue of Robert Burns in the Auckland Domain on the 29th Inst., and also a war memorial in his own electorate at Pukekohe. The Hawke’s Bay Presbytery yesterday decided to nominate Rev. WJ. Comrie, formerly of Hastings, but now of Wellington, as Moderator of the Assembly for 1922-23. Miss McHardy and Miss G. McHardy have returned to Palmerston North after a trip to Australia. Miss McHardy has considerably benefited in health as, the result of her trip. Major-General J. T. Burnett Stuart, C.M.G., D. 5.0., who is commanding troops engaged in the Moplah rising, was at one time Director of Military Operations in New Zealand. Captain J. F. Rockstrow, of the New Zealand Staff Corps, has been transferred to the reserve of officers. Captain Rockstrow was a member of the First South African Contingent. Mr W. Bruce, who has been president of the Wanganui School Committees’ Association since its inception, fifteen or sixteen years ago, was, at a meeting of the association on Saturday night, re-elected to that position. The death is reported, at the ago of seventy years, of Mr William T. Collerton, who was for many years a police constable at Tinui, in the Wairarapa district. He joined the police force in Wellington in 1879. He leaves four sons. Mr W. T. Conibear, housing inspector in the Napier branch of the Labour Department, has severed his connection with the Department. Mr W. F. Coleman, also of the Napier branch, leaves the Department at the end of the month. The death occurred at the residence of Mrs Clark, in Main Street, Palmerston North, yesterday, of Mr Edward Herbert Shute. The deceased, whp was fifty-seven years of age and single, had formerly resided in the Woodville district. Mr A. Kay, who retired from the position of manager of the London office of the Bank of New Zealand at the end of last month, had forty years’ continuous service with that institution. He has been appointed to a seat on chc London board of directors. Mr G. A. Smithers, who has been gardener for the Beautifying Society at Whangarei for the past five years, and who is the holder of excellent credentials, has been approved caretaker for the Cambridge Domain. There were 22 applications. The Rev. Charles Dobson, M.C., was on Monday night inducted vicar*of the parochial district of Mangatainoka. The service which took place in St, Mark’s Church, was conducted by the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Wellington, attended by the Rev. H. W. Monaghan. Mr R. W. Porter, chief postmaster, Invercargill, who retires from the Post and Telegraph Department at the end of this month, has 43 years’ service to bis credit and the further distinction of terminating his public career as controlling officer of the office in which he commenced service as a cadet in IS7B. Mr P. W. Doidge, formerly chief reporter on the “Auckland Star” staff, and who held a responsible position during the war in connection with the Publicity *branch of the War Office, has now been appointed by Lord Beaverbrook a director of the “Sunday Express,” one of the most widely circulated newspapers in England. Lord and Lady Jellicoe and suite passed through Palmerston North yesterday afternoon, en route for Wanganui, where they will stay until Thursday. They will then proceed to Patea and thence to New Plymouth by car. On Monday they will visit Manaia, Opunake and Ohura. Their Excellencies will then return to Wellington. The death occurred at Auckland a few days ago of Mr F. S. Canning. The late Mr Canning was well-known in the Gore and Otago districts as an auctioneer and newspaper proprietor. Subsequently he was in New Plymouth Interested in the “Taranaki News,” and latterly in business at Whakatane in conjunction with his son, under the name of Messrs F. S. Canning and Son. Another of the early settlers passed away in the person of Mr William Harrison, whose death occurred at Kinver Downs, Scargill, on the 18th Inst. The late Mr Harrison came out to New Zealand in the ship Mersey in 1862, and, almost at once, went to Little River, where he was engaged in cutting lumber and rafting it across J.ake Ellesmere to the settlements then opening up. On the opening of W hite s bridge over the Waimakariri river, he was appointed toll-collector, and acted as such till 1871, when he took up a farm on the Mocraki Downs, Fernside. where he farmed successfully for some 33 years. Music each afternoon in our delightful tearooms —popular and classical items included. This is “Free Day” period so keep all your cash dockets. The day will be advertised on 12th November. “Free Day” has three objectives;—To get you to keep all your cash dockets, to increase our cash takings, to equalise our business over each day of the week. Collineon and Cunninghame, Ltd.*