PERSONALITIES

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7065, 26 January 1933, Page 6

PERSONALITIES

The Bov. and .Mrs. F. A. Crawshaw and family rpturn to Palmerston North to-day after spending an enjoyable fortnight’s holiday at Haweral

Tho friends of Mr. John Harding (Woodvillc) will rogret to loam that he has had to enter hospital in "Wellington for troatinont. His condition was ro? ported yesterday as being comfortable.

News has been received by cable in Dunedin of the death in Hobart on Saturday last of Mr. John Andrew Johnson, M.A., ex-principal of the Teachers’ Training Colloge at Hobart. The Itev. Alexander Fotheringham, Presbyterian Church, Awahuri, has been posted to ‘‘Manawatu South” und will take up his duties on February 12. Ho will reside in Shannon,

Mr. VV. Vickers, president of tho Horowhenun Racing Club, took suddenly ill at tho Levin A. and P. Show yesterday. Ho was attorn" l to by Dr. Thompson and romoved to hospital in Levin.

It; will bo of interest to many local people to learn that Mr. Gordon McMinn, formerly of Palmerston North, is now managing-director of the Advertiser, which is a daily paper catering particularly for pastotalists in and around Beudigo, Australia.

Among tho interested visitors at last ovening’s “camp firo” at the Boy Scouts’ camp wero Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bcctham, of Mastcrton, who are spending a holiday at Ngaputah', Pohangina. It is on Mr. B'cethnm’s property that tho camp has been pitched.

Archbishop Redwood stated in his address at the annual meeting of the Early Settlors’ arid Historical Association of AVcllingtou on Monday that on March 17, 1931, if ho were spared, he would celebrate his sixtieth year of office as a bishop. He was now the senior bishop of the Catholic world. He had been fifty-eight years a bishop and sixty-eight years a priest. Tho death occurred in New Plymouth on Sunday of tho Rev. H. J. Fletcher at the age of (54 years. A native of Kent, England, tho late Mr. Fletcher came to Now Zealand with his parents in 1875, the family settling at Bulls, Eangitikoi. ■ Mr. Fletcher became interested in tho Maori race and commenced Maori mission work in that district. Ho subsequently spent many years in tho Tnupo and Urcwera districts. In 1923 Mr. Flotcher left Taupo and has since boen engaged in work at Turakina, Wanganui, and Nornmnby, and Scacliff and Warrington, Otago. Mr. Fletcher was a noted Maori scholar and an authority on Maori lore. He also took a keen interest in astronomy, being a member of the New Zealand Astronomical Society. Ho was a contributor to tho ‘‘Polynesian Journal” and a member of the Polynesian Society for many years. Ho was also a contributor, mainly on the traditional history of the Taupo area, to the ‘ ‘ New Zealand Herald.” The late Air. Fletcher is survived by his widow, three sons, and five daughters.