PERSONALITIES

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7201, 26 April 1930, Page 6

PERSONALITIES

THE “DME-S" ADVOCATE On Aieac Day, all citizens pay their respects to the memory of those who made the supreme sacrifice in the Great Wat—those Who died quickly and cleanly and those whose broken bodies held the spark of life for days, months, years, before it flickered out in agony —renew their determination that there thall be no more of it and their pledge that those remaining shall he cared for. There is one, however, amongst their number, to whom the act of service is part of the daily routine and it would bo impossible to measure how much he Iraß given to the cause of his fellow "Diggers." This is Bertram Joseph Jacobs, for many years now president of the Palmerston North R.S.A., and an advocate for thorn on the Patriotic Society’s executive. His deeds proclaim his code that the dead are best remembered in service to the living and he is ever watchful of the soldiers’ interests. His purpose is supported by a buoyant spirit and no gathering of N.Z.E.F. units is regarded as complete without Bert, with his inexhaustible fund of anecdote and reminiscence. A large legal practice occupies the other waking moments of his busy day.

The Canterbury Rugby Union has appointed Messrs R. R. Masters a.nd P. Harvey to be selectors for the season.

Captain L. W. Andrew, V.C., and Lieutenant J. Grant, V.C., are visiting Palmerston North, to attend the annual reunion of the Wellington Regiment, of the N.Z.E.F.

Major A. E. Conway, who is inspecting the golf links for this year’s Now Zealand open championship on behalf of the New Zealand Golf Council, will visit the Hokowhitu course to-day preparatory to making his report and recommendation to the council.

Sir Joseph Ward, who celebrates his 74th birthday to-day, continues to show much improvement in health, says Hon. G. W. Forbos, who has just, returned to Auckland from Rotorua. The Prime Minister, however, will not take an active part in the Parnell byelection.

Mr. James Mclntosh, a very well known and universally respected officer of the Post and Telegraph Department in Wellington, died on Wednesday night after a short illness. Mr McIntosh was a controlling officer of the telephone .branch in Wellington. His knowledge of the Wellington telephone system and its ramifications was unique, and for .that reason his services and advice were continually sought by .endless telephone subscribers. Ho was 52 yours, of age, and had twenty-niuo years of scrvico in the Post and Telegraph Department. He leaves a widow and two sons to mourn uis loss,