PERSONAL

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6733, 9 October 1928, Page 6

PERSONAL

Dr. and Mrs W. Hunter Will returned by te Maunganui from Sydney yesterday.

Rev. J.. Ernest Parsons and Mr. G. Woods of Palmerston North were welcomed at yesterday’s meeting of the Palmerston North Rotary Club. - Mr. O, J. Wright, accountant at the Christchurch Post Office, has been pro moted to the position of accountant at tho Chief Post Office, Wellington. His place will bo taken by Mr. S. St. J. Dunn, formerly supervisor at Christchurch. :-lA *

Mr. M. Cohen, of Palmerston North, has accepted an invitation to address the Wanganui Eotary Club to-day. Mr. Cohen will recount certain aspects of his recent visit to Honolulu, where he attended the memorial celebrations in connection with; the landing there of Coptaih Cook ; one hundred and fifty years ago./• •

Passengers who returned to Wellington' by the Maunganui included:— Messrs. H. A. Knight, owner of Limerick, J. S. McLeod, E. J., and H. Murphy, who also had horses competing in Australia,- and H. G. Watson, the New Zealand cyclist, who competed with the Australians in the Tour db France. —Press Assn.

The Auckland nominations for the Rhodes Scholarship aro Mr. P. C. Minns. 8.A., and j Mr. E. E. Bailey, L.L.B. Both were born in 1907. Mr. Minns was educated at the Auckland Grammar School and Mr. Bailey at the Sacred Heart College., Mr, Minns is a -Rugby player, and was chosen for the first Waratah Test. A cable message from London reports the death of Alderman John Tunbridge, cx-Chicf Commissioner of Police in New Zealand, The late John Tunbridge was Chief Commissioner of Police in New Zealand from October, 1897, until June, 1903. He received his training at Scotland Yard, and came from there to organise the New. Zealand Police Service.

At the close of last evening’s meeting of the Manawatu Cricket Council, last year’s president, Mr. A. M. Ongley, extended a welcome to the new president, Mr-. W. Miller, who was at one time secretary of the association in Palmerston North. Always a keen cricketer and supporter of the game, Mr. Miller has been absent from this town for some time but has now returned as manager of the Palmerston North branch of the Bank of New Zealand.

Tho late secretary of the Manawatu Cricket Association, Mr. R. E. K. Black, who is shortly leaving New Zealand for Australia, was the recipient of congratulations upon his recent promotion, at last evening’s meeting of the association. In wishing Mr. Black the best of luck in his new sphere, Mr. A. M, Ongley spoke of tho faithful and energetic service which he had given to Manawatu cricket during the time ho had been in Palmerston North. They were all isofry to lose him but they' congratulated him upon his well-earned promotion. On the motion of Mr. Ongley, a motion of appreciation was accorded Mr. Black and placed upon the minutes. Mr. Black suitably responded and expressed tho hope that the assistance which had always been given him by delegates would also bo extended' to his successor, (Mr. 0. Brew).