PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2434, 28 July 1924, Page 4

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Mr P. J. Small, president of the Dairy Farmers’ Union, leaves to-day for Hawera on business connected with the Union. Mr S. S. Dean, of Wellington, came up specially from Wellington on Saturday to see the 1924 All Blacks play their final Australasian game. The members of the visiting Chinese Soccer team will attend the Kosy Theatre to-morrow evening as . the guests of the management. The appointment of Cecond-Uieut-onant Malcolm Niccol, of Palmerston North, to the Wellington West Coast Regiment (Second C Battalion) has been gazetted. Mr S. M. Hobbs, F.1.A., N.Z., who was recently a practising accountant In Fellding, has now taken a partnership in the firm of Messrs Rowley ad Gill, of Wellington. Mr J. Kirwan, tne present Auckland and ex-Hawke’s Bay representative, was in Palmerston North on Saturday, en route to the Queen City, after furlough in the South Island. Mr George West, of Fellding, who was injured as a result of striking a line of trucks at the Cook Street railway crossing on Friday night, was last evening reported to be improving. Mr L. V. Carmine, late of Buller, but now a resident of Wanganui, was present to see in action, on Saturday, the team he assisted to select for the British tour. Messrs R. Natusch (Hastings) and Stanley S. Natusch (Wellington), went through by ear to Hastings on Saturday evening, together with Mr W. O’Neill, the referee in the New Zealand v. Manawatu-Horowhenua game Chief-Detective T. S. C. Kemp, of Wellington, has received notice of his promotion to the rank of sub-inspec-tor in charge of the detective branch of the service at Wellington. This is the first appointment of its kind that has ever been made in New Zealand. Mr Claude Kllgour, postmaster, of Port Ahuriri, and his brother Frank, were present at Saturday's great Rugby match. They an- old West Coasters, and had a happy reunion with the other Grcymouth people with whom the game brought them into contact.

Mr H. Frost, of Auckland, president of the Kew Zealand 8.F.A., was a spectator of the All Blacks’ match, and went on to Wellington to farewell the team in his official capacity as head of the game in this country. He was himself a New Zealand representative in 1896. Mr 11. A. Little, a director of Messrs Joseph Nathan and Co., Ltd., W ellington. returned to the Umpire City on Saturday in charge of the All Blacks. The members of the team are delighted with their treatment by one who understands men, and is one of Pmgby’e soundest administrators. Mr H. Dawson, of Masterton, motored through for the big game on Satur. , day. He is a son of Mr E. A. Dawson, • formerly stationmaster at Thorndon. and a noted athletic administrator. Mr H. Dawson was a fine sprinter and ' Rugby player, and represented the , North Island as wing three-quarter at Christchurch in 1910. Not, the least interesting of tho . many fine Rugby personalities at Saturday's farewell (9 the 1924 All Blacks on tho Palmerston North Showground was Mr Dan McKßnze, president of the Mow Zealand Rugby Referees' Association. He has grown old in the service of the game, and there is no wider known Rugby authority in the laud. Mr Edgar Wylie, of Wellington, treasurer of the New Zealand R.F.U., came up for toe All Blacks' match and returned to the Empire city with 'l tho team. He renew ed soma old i acquaintances at the Paimerston 'No-rili Showground, lor he wore the ■ i c-.-cou and white, jersey in 1902, when , Doted to represent the North Island in the first regular cont'-st, refereed by tiie Von. Archdeacon C. C. Harper. Mr b. Brownlie of Pnkotitivi. ; Hawke's'Bay, was down on Sa tarda;, j to fa e the final AH Blacks' game, He ! is a brother of M. J- and C. J. Brownlie, the New Zealand ra pi c-sciitatlvo? 1 a ml was the first of the trio to gain Ills 1 New Zealand cap. He pin: cd against New South Wales on Soptemb; r ord, 1921, when New Zealand was beaten : t>y 17 points to nil. There is only one other family to wear three sliver ferns, H. E., H. G., and M. F. Nicholls, of ' Petone. j A welcome visitor to Palmerston ■ North during tho week-end was Mr C. L. Mull any, hon, secretary of the Wellington Rugby Referees’ Associa- ; tion, Without the support accorded to Messrs E. McKenzie and A. C. Kitto a fortnight vgo by Hr Mullany, it is a certainty no Nil Blacks' match would have been pinned in Palmerston North. It is good to see a young man with a sense c f his responsibilities, and Mr Mullany’s plucky stand for the right thing show's that in him the minor Unions have a real I champion to espouse their cause at Wellington. The thousands of people * who were able to farewell the 1924 All Blacks at Palmerston North owe a . debt of gratitude to Messrs _E. McKenzie (Carterton), A. C. Kitto, and C. L. Mullany (Wellington). 1 An Auckland firm who lost over £IOOO through the defective work or a ! new sleeve- fitting machine sold Collinson and Ounninghame 80 of the im I perfect suits. These are clearing for 149/6 each .In good patterns, pure 'wool Colonial tweeds, perfect in all 1 hut sloevc~head detail. Collinson and j Cunnlnghame’s sale.