PERSONALITIES

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 276, 22 November 1935, Page 6

PERSONALITIES

Mr A. P. L. Kennedy, headmaster of tlie Treuthum. school, has been appointed headmaster of the Ekctalnma District High School. He will take np his duties on February 1, IU3G.

Mr. «. Irwin Crookes has uotilied the Auckland University College Council that he intends to resign in December from his position as a representative of the council upon the .Massey Agricultural College Council. The death of Mr Henry Arden, aged 110, who claimed relationship with William yhakespoaro, occurred at New Plymouth last night. Mary Arden was the mother of Shakespeare. Henry Arden was born at Brighton, England, in 18-15 and came to Now Zealand in 1855. He saw long service in the Maori wars and subsequently was in the service of the National Bunk.

The death occurred yesterday in Christchurch of Mr George Watson, aged 57, former president of the United Commercial Travellers’ and Warehousemen’s Association of New Zealand and also former president of the Canterbury Association. In his earlier years in Dunedin he was keenly interested in sport, and for the last 18 years until retiring last year, Mr Watson had had been associated with Mason Struthers and Co., hardware merchants, his last position being that of wholesale manager.

The late lien. Francis .'Somerset Gough Calthrope, the former captain of Warwickshire, \,hose death has occurred in England at the age of 43 years, toured New Zealand with the M. 0.0. team in the 1922-23 season. On the occasion of the visit of the touring party to Palmerston North, where the M.C.C. met a combined eleven drawn from the Munawatu, Wairarapa and itungitikei Cricket Associations on February 7, .1923, Calthrope played a magnificent innings of 130 towards the visitors' total of 300-