PERSONALITIES

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6788, 20 February 1932, Page 4

PERSONALITIES

The death, is reported by cable from London of King Friedrich August of .Saxony.

Mr. John Tohill and Mr. Percy Christenson have returned to Wellington after a short visit to Mrs. Christensen, of Cheltenham.

Tho condition of Mrs. Gilmour, was injured in a motor accident last Saturday, was reported at an early hour this morning to be unchanged. Mr. W. C. Barry, superintendent of the Live Stock Division of the Department of Agriculture, Wellington, lias been in the Manawatu district officially during tho week. Advice has been received by cable that Flying Officer J. Annesley Hankins, attached to the Array co-operation squadron at Farnborough, Kent, has received promotion as an instructor in the Royal Air Force at Heliopolis, with instructions to proceed there with the battalion of the Royal Fusiliers on February 23. Flying Officer Hankins, who is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. .J. G. Hankins, was awarded a pass with distinction as a flying officer of tho Royal Air Force, and ho was also successful in winning the trophy presented by Lord Wakefield to tho runner-up for the lightweight boxing championship of the Air Force. Considering that this young New Zealander has had only two years’ service, his rapid progress has been remarkable.

The death occurred in a private hospital in Palmerston North on Thursday of Mr. William Aisher, of Wellington, who was a younger brother of Mr. Frederick Aisher, of Grey street, a w’ellknown resident of this city. Deceased had been on a visit to Palmerston North and had been staying with his niece, Mrs. P. J. Small, of Kairanga. The late Mr. Aisher, who had attained his 70th. year, was born at Napier, where his father held the rank of sergeant in the Socond Battalion of the 14th. Foot Regiment, and he spent his boyhood days there. In 18(56 his father moved to Australia, but within two years returned to the Dominion and settled, in Wellington, where Mr. William Aisher took up the joinery trade. Ho married in 1892 and was appointed a joiner in the service of the Public Works Department, and continued a very active life until superannuated a few' years ago. In his younger days deceased was an enthusiastic volunteer and, as a bugler, enjoyed a wide reputation. He was a member of the AVcllington Garrison Band when that organisation hold the championship of tho Dominion and journeyed afield to Australia on one occasion in search of further honours. Mrs. Aisher predeceased her husband ten years ago, and there is left one son, Mr. James Aisher, of Auckland. Mrs. Donovan, of Wellington, is a sifter of deceased, and Mr. F. Aisher, of Palmerston North, and Mr. James Aisher, of Pctone, are brothers.