PERSONALITIES

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7143, 14 February 1930, Page 6

PERSONALITIES

MOVE ALONG PLEASE. Although some mothers still discipline their insubordinate offspring with threats that they will be given to the ogres, or, as an unpleasant alternative, to the policemen, small wrongdoers show very little fear of the men in blue. Both in and out of uniform, Palmerston North’s policemen are the finest of good fellows and amongst the best of them is Joe Colboume, Main street’s biggest and brightest policeman. Joe is a big man and he has an, outsize in grins. There are those, of course, who very suddenly hear the call of the great open spaces when Joe heaves in sight, but they are the people whom Joe is paid to keep moving. He is the man who sifts the grain from the chaff of arrivals at the Palmerston North railway station and if an undesirable gets a “not wanted’’ ticket from the * big man, he generally loses very little time in finding urgent business elsewhere. Joe came to Palmerston North from Carterton where he had jollied things along for eight years, .following a period of very useful training at Mt. Cook station, Wellington. He is a keen follower of all outdoor sports and particularly of the national game. He coached a number of very useful members of the Carterton Rugby Club and has also assisted the Kia Toa Club in Palmerston North. Joe Colbourne has been only two years in Palmerston North, but in that time, he has shown that the best way to enjoy being a policeman is to grin and bear it. ,

Mr. A. R. Ayrton, of the Hawera Post and Telegraph Office, commenced duties with the postal staff in Palmerston North yesterday. At a meeting of the Council of the New Zealand Institute of Architects on Wednesday, a Palmerston North architect, Mr. A. R. Allen was raised to the status of Fellow. Mr. J. T. P. Jones, of the clerical staff at the Ohakune Railway station, arrives to-day, to take up a position at tho Palmerston North station. The Hon. R. J. O’Brien, who was Senator for two terms in the State of Ohio, U.S.A., arrived in New Zealand from San Francisco by the Tahiti on Monday to spend a holiday in the Dominion.

Dr. F. E. Wiedemann, a physician of Indiana, U.S.A., arrived in Wellington from San Francisco by the Tahiti on Monday. Dr. Wiedemann will spend some time in New Zealand studying hospital methods. The King has approved the appointment of the Earl of Clarendon as Gov-ernor-General of the Union of South Africa in succession to Major-General the Earl of Athlone whose extended period of office expires next January. In a letter just received by the Christchurch Golf Club from Joe Kirkwood, written from Chicago, tho famous golfer definitely states that he and Walter Hagen will play in Christchurch on February 27. The only other towns in which they will appear are Auckland and Wellington. Mr. R. J. Anwyl, general manager for Australia and New Zealand for Thomas Cook and Son, left Auckland by the Niagara for the United States, Europe and the East. The object of his tour is to advertise Australia and New Zealand, and endeavour to attract a greater number of tourists to the countries.