PERSONAL

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6993, 20 August 1929, Page 6

PERSONAL

Messrs M. Leet and C. Espiner, of the Wellington Training College, are spending a fortnight’s holiday in Palmerston North.

Mr William Drake, aged 82 years, formerly a member of the Hansard staffs and a journalist in New Zealand and New South Wales, has died, states a Sydney cable.

Visitors welcomed at yesterday’s meeting of the Rotary Club were Messrs Gordon Dixon and John Young, of Palmerston North and Dr. McDowell, of the Massey Agricultural College. Constable J. Grant, in charge of the Terrace End police station, was admitted to hospital yesterday suffering severely from pneumonia. His many frionds will wish him a speedy recovery.

A London message reports the death of Dr. Arthur Peake, the theologian, and Rylands Professor of Biblical Exegesis, Victoria University, Manchester, since 1904, and editor of the liolborn (Methodist) Review since 1919, aged 64 years. Mr. F. A. Phelan, at present service officer in the Manawatu district for the Wellington Automobile Club, has resigned from that body, he having been appointed to the position of traffic inspector to the Wairoa County and Borough. Mr. Phelan expects to be leaving Palmerston North about the middle of next month.

There passed away on Saturday last, at Masterton, Mr R. H. Tregurtha, the fifth son of the late Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Tregurtha, of Palmgrston North. The deceased gentleman was, up to the time of his illness, a teacher at the school at Kahautaura, Featherston, prior to tvhich he was for two years at the Rangitumau school and nine years at Mauriceville west. The late Mr. Tregurtha was a very capable and popular teacher and his death at the ago of 49 is regretted by a wide circle of friends. Mr. Tregurtha leaves a wife and a son and daughter to mourn their loss.