PERSONALITIES

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7145, 17 February 1930, Page 6

PERSONALITIES

TRAINING THE YOUNG IDEA.

Rounding off one of bis melodious couplets, Pope wrote ‘just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.; The line might "be taken as the motto of men like Femly Charlwood Campbell for above all professions, the teaching profession is one in which a man may leave behind him his own imprint on succeeding generations. P. C. Campbell has not escaped the inevitable penalty of the popular schoolmaster ‘Stalky’ he is to his pupils past and present and ’Stalky’ he will remain. On Saturday, for the second time in his career, P. C. Campbell was elected president of the Manawatu branch of the N.Z.E.I. The position is an important one, but the honour is only a recognition of the work which he has done for seven days a week for many years. F. C. Campbell is not a teacher who closes the door upon his school ana everything to do with it at four o clock in the afternoon. His own time is always his pupils’ time and the hours he has given to coaching both in and out of school, would make a figure if brought together. For nine years Mr Campbell was first assistant at the West Eud school and when he followed his old headmaster, Mr A. W. Thompson, to Terrace End, the district realised that it had lost more than a popular tearfar. But men like F. C. Campbell do not stand still and when, at the opening ot the new Russell street school, he was appointed its first headmaster, no more worthy choice could have been made. School is not solely a matter of lessons to F.C.C. On the sports field he has coached teams without number and with Rugby referees’ whistle, ho has proved one of the most efficient officials of the Manawatu Rugby Referee’s Association. ‘Mens sana in corpore sano’ has always been the guiding principle of F. o. Campbell.

Mr Roy Garner, St. John’s avenue, has returned to his home to convalcsco after an operation for appendicitis. Constable J. V. Bell, of Boston, who is in the Palmerston North hospital, is reported to bo making a good recovery from his leg trouble.

At the annual meeting of the Manawatu Hunt Club held on Saturday evening, a motion of sympathy was accorded Mr W. McKenzie, the secretary, in his illness and hopes were expressed for his early recovery to normal health. Mr George Hill, better known as Trooper “Rowley” Hill, Auckland’s oldest veteran, died at Takapuna on Saturday morning, aged 93 years. Tiio funeral of tho ; late Mr George Kendall took place on Thursday in the presence of a large and representative gathering of relatives, friends and early settlers and many beautiful wreathes were laid upon the grave including tributes from the P.N. Borough Council, Manawatu County Council, Lodge Manawatu Kilwinning, Orchestral Society and Loan and Mercantile Agency. The service at All Saints church -was conducted by Canon G. Y. Woodward assisted by Rev. Nield, while there was a Masonic service at the graveside. The retirement of Mr. B. G. A. Cooper, for some years a Stipendiary Magistrate, and also chairman of the War Pensions Board, was announced last week. The vacancy; on the War Pensions Board as chairman will be filled by the appointment of Mr T. E. Y. Seddon, ex-M.P., barrister and solicitor, of Greymouth. Mr Cooper, who is a brother of Mr H. R. Cooper, of Palmerston North, was first appointed to the Civil Service as a cadet in tho Crown Lands and Immigration Department by Sir Robert Stout, then Minister of Lands and Immigration, on September 28, 1878. When the Military' Service Act was passed, Mr Cooper was appointed chairman of the First Wellington Military Service Board on September 26, 1916, and in that capacity he heard many appeals from those claiming exemption from war service. The Military Service Boards ceased to function after the Armistice, and Mr Cooper continued his duties as chairman of the War Pensions Board. Mr Seddon, the second son of the late Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, was born in Ivumara, Westland, in 1884. Since the war Mr Seddon has identified himself with the work of the Returned Soldiers’ Association. Some years ago he was elected as delegate of tho New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association to meet Bari Haig in South Africa, at a conference of returned soldiers’ associations, but he was unable to go.