PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2075, 16 March 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Mr David Jones. M.P., has been chairman of the Meat Export Control Board. Mr V. J. Delaney, postmaster at Foxton, has been appointed returning officer for the Manawatu electorate. The newly-appointed station-master, Mr \V. H. Hales, will take up his duties at the Palmerston North station to-day. Mr James Doyle, chief sanitary inspector at Wellington, is retiring on superannuation at the end of the present month. The Rev. G. Heighway, of Palmerston North, has left for Christchurch to attend the annual conference of the Congregational Union. Mr S. K. Wright, engineer to the Waimatc County Council, has been ap- | pointed clerk and engineer to the Selwyn County Council. The death has occurred at Wellington of Mr J. W. Jackson, a wellknown indent agent and representative of important British firms. Mr Thomas Buxton, lecturer and organiser for the Dominion Farmers’ Union, will probably visit the Manawatu district in the near future. Mr Thomas Troy, who had fortytwo years’ unbroken service in the Railway Department, died at Greymouth on Monday in his sixty-fifth year. The Right Rev. Bishop Richard,' 1 has received information that the j Archbishop of Canterbury has coni ferred on him the degree of Doctor olj 1 Divinity. j Mr J. C. Thomson, o& Riverton, whe I was formerly in Parliament, will con I test the Wallace seat at the genera I election. The sitting member is Mr j Adam Hamilton. j Mr W. Wickens, superintendent of parks and reserves, who has been in • the service of the Christchurch City 1 Council for the past twenty-nine years, I has resigned his position. Mr Irving, of the Feilding branch o ‘the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-opera-j live Distributing ..Company, has beei j transferred to Masterton as stock i agent for the company’s local branch. Mr S. A. Giller, for many years with Messrs J. G. Ward and Co., has been appointed general manager of the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative j Distributing Company, Ltd., vice Mr S. Ferguson, resigned. Sir James Roberts, secretary of the New Zealand V/u torsi dm-s’ Federation, announced at the Conciliation Council meeting in Napier yesterday that lie was contesting the Napier seat at the next general election. Mr K. Saxon, of Cambridge, has been appointed to the staff of the Nelson Boys' College, and will take up teaching duties in September. Mr Saxon is an "old boy” of Nelson College, and was formerly on the staff. I Mr Farquhar Young, of ChrislI church, has been offered the position iof adjudicator in both musical and j elocutionary sections at the opening founction of the newly formed Manawatu Competitions Society, PaimerI ston North. j The death occurred at Dunedin on j Thursday of Mr W. E. Gregory, of j the linn of Couils, Culling and Com- ! puny, an old established printing linn which recently amalgamated with Wilkie and Co. Deceased was a well known bowler. Sir Thomas Parkinson, M.D., wli came, to Now- Zealand partly lot j health reasons, recently underwent a j serious ope;alien m a Wellington pri- ] vale hospital. The. operation was .successful, and Sir Thomas is making good progress towards recovery. The Hon. D. 11. Guthrie (Minister for Lands and Repatriation) accompanied by tire Kapßi Isiand Advisory Committee, is to to visit Kapiti Isiand during the coming week-end in order to study on the spot the conditions ob- ; taining on the island. The Hon. C. J. Parr, who leaves Palmerston North for Wellington ‘today, is to open a maternity ward at the Masterton Hospital on Wednesday, March 29th. He and Dr Valintine, Inspector-General of Hospitals, have been staying at the Hotel Imperial. The death occurred at his residence at Lower Hutt yesterday, after a prolonged illness, of Mr John MacDougall. who was secretary of the Wellington Typographical Union for eight or nine years. The late Mr Mac . Dougall, who was fifty years of age, was a son of Mr J. W. MacDougail, ed.tor of the Napier ‘‘Daily Telegraph.” Word has been received that Mr Duncan William McArthur, the wellknown civil engineer, died on hia seventy-second birthday at his residence, Northcote (Auckland). He enjoyed robust health until last Tuesday afternoon, when he was seized with a paralytic stroke on the Auckland railway station after returning from a visit to his eldest son at Tc Awamutu. • The Rev. J. G. Castle, who has been vicar of All Saints’ Church, Eltham, for over two years, has accepted a position on the statf of the Palmerston North Boys’ High School (says the "Argus”). In tne course of some remarks to thp congregation at the conclusion of the service at All Saints’ on Sunday evening, Mr Castle said lie had for a considerable time been quite convinced that his best work was done in teaching, and, as it was a matter of conscientiously doing what he felt he ought to do, he had applied for a scholastic appointment. Probably some might think that it was because his faith had gone to pieces, but this was not so. His faith was stronger than it had ever been, other wise he might not have-had the morn, courage to like the action he had. He I had endeavoured to be more than just ja parson who preached. He had , pointed out to them that they ougy- tc | do their duty as they found it to th i best of their ability, and he has no trying to do what he had taught ther to do. The date of the Rev. J. G. Castle's departure from Eltham has not been definitely fixed, but he will probably take up his new appointment soon after Easter. ‘‘The Unknown” has been engaged to sing each afternoon in Collinson and Cunninghame's delightful tearooms, Eulogised by Professor Marshall Hall, fresh from seven weeks engagement in Christchurch, reported by press as "a charming tenor,” ‘‘of unusual merit,” etc. “The Unknown” will sing this afternoon from 3.30 “Because,” “Over the Hills of Heart’s Content,” “The Road’ that Leads to You,” and “Absent.”*