PERSONALITIES

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 9, 11 January 1936, Page 6

PERSONALITIES

Mr. W. Martin has returned to Palmerston North after a holiday trip to Rarotonga.

Mr Kenneth McDonald, a well-known member of tho business community of Palmerston North, is an inmate of the Tauranga Hospital. It appears that while on a visit to Mount Maunganui Mr McDonald, in company with a number of others, was assisting to extract a motor-car which had become imprison ed in the sands on tho beach. Timber was being used to lift up the back of the car and a piece broko to strike Mr McDonald abovo the ankle of the left leg, breaking two bones. Ho will probably be confined to hospital for approximately six weeks.

It was announced at the Catholic Teachers’ Conference at Auckland, that Rev. Brother M. M. O’Connor, rector of St. Kevin’s Christian Brothers’ College, Oumaru, had been transferred to take charge of the Christian Brothers’ School at St.- Mary’s Cathedral, 'Sydney. The latter school is one of the largest conducted L>y the Christian Brothers in Australia. Brother O’Connor was born in Ireland, coming to Australia eighteen years ago. For a time ho was rector of the Christian Brothers’ 8-nool at Dunedin, and was appointed rector of St. Kevin’s four yea ago. Ho was president of tho Catholic Teachers’ Association last year.