PERSONAL

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6804, 7 January 1929, Page 6

PERSONAL

Messrs J. Hodgens and A. Beattie have returned to Palmerston North after a holiday tour of the South Island.

According to the Church News, Archbishop Averill (Primate of New Zealand) hopes to attend the Lambeth Conference in England in 1930. Mr. L. F. de Berry, M.A., of Dunedin, who is spending the holidays in Palmerston North, has been notified that lie has passed the examination for his Diploma of Education. Professor Johannes Schmidt, the Danish scientist with the Dana expedition, who has spent the past week in and around Palmerston North, leaves for ‘Wellington to-day by the express from Napier. Dr. Raymond Bellringer, a former pupil of the New Plymouth Boys’ High school, has been appointed to the position of resident. doctor at Sunnysidc mental hospital, Christchurch, and will bo taking up his duties immediately. Mr. H. D. Skinner, of Otago University, son of Mr. IV. H. Skinner, New ■Plymouth, will be the president of the anthropology and history section of the annual Science Congress of the Now Zealand Institute to be held at Auckland during the last week of this month. Memories of Robert Louis Stevenson avo recalled by the death in Samoa of the late Mr. Johann Heinrich Kohlhase, one of the best known traders in the island. He was a close friend of “R.L.S.” and frequently visited him in his beautiful home, Vailiraa. Mr. Kohlhase was born at Stockhausen, Thuringtou, Saxouv, in ISSI, but ho had lived and worked in Samoa since the early ’eighties. After spending somo years in the employ of Greysmuhl and Co., at Apia, ho took over tho Lanutoo plantation, which he developed into a beautiful estate. He began business as a trader 20 years ago. Mr. Kohlhase was much respected by both Europeans and natives, and he will be greatly missed.