PERSONALITIES

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 149, 25 June 1937, Page 4

PERSONALITIES

Mr. and Mrs. C. L. McDonald, Hawera, are spending a few days’ holiday at Palmerston North. Mr. L. Tilley, of the Dannevirke staff of tho Bank of Australasia, has been transferred to Timaru, and his successor is Mr. H. R. Humphrey, of Te Aroha. Mr. H. S. Devonport, of the Vacuum Oil Co. Ltd. staff, who has been transferred to Wellington, leaves on Saturday with his wife and family to take up his new appointment. Mr. D. J. Gibbs, treasurer, and assist-ant-secretary to the Wellington Harbour Board, after 40 years’ service is retiring on superannuation. His resignation, which is to take effect as from November 30, was accepted with deep regret by the board. At yesterday’s monthly meeting ol the Southern Hawke's Bay Provincial Executive of the Farmers’ Union, it was unanimously resolved to nominate Mr. H. B. Stuckey, of Dannevirke, for the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board Electoral Committee, and Mr. .t. D. Ormond, of Wallingford, as the producers’ representative on tho board, for a further term. Professor D. R. White, who during a lengthy academic career gave distinguished service in the cause of education, not only in Otago but throughout New Zealand, celebrated his 90th birthday on Monday. Id accordance with a custom of some years’ standing, several of his oldest ex-pupils marked the occasion by calling on Professor White in the afternoon at his home and extending their congratulations. Mr H. J. Bott, who for the past 13 years has been on tho staff of Selwyn Motors, Ltd., left Palmerston North yesterday to take up his residence at Timaru. Ho was bidden farewell by members of the staff, good wishes for his future being extended by Messrs J. Selwyu, D. A. Hewlett and F. Senior On behalf of the directors and staff. Air Selwyu presented Mr. Bott with a handsome grandfather clock. The secretary of the Now Educational Fellowship Conference, which is to be held shortly throughout New Zealand, has received cabled advice that Air. Geoffrey Dennis, chief of tho document services in tho Secretariat of the League of Nations and author of the recently-published ‘‘Coronation Commentary,” is unable to proceed on his official mission to New Zealand and Australia owing to unforeseen circumstances. —Press Assn. Dr. Rutter, formerly on the staff of the Napier Public Hospital, received ■ the gold medal awarded to the candidate obtaining the highest aggregate marks in the examination for the diploma of tropical medicine and hygiene, according to advice received in New Zealand by air mail. Dr. Rutter is an old boy of Mastertou School, and, leaving the Napier Public Hospital in 1936 for England, he was lor some time at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, later being appointed to his present position of house surgeon ac St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, Rochester. Prior to the final examination, Dr. Rutter had been awarded the Balfour Scholarship and elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropica.' Medicine and Hygiene. With the passiug of Air Henry John Aidous at the ago of 81 years, Palmerston North and district lost one who was in every sense a pioneer. Born in London, Air Aidous came to New Zealand 62 years ago as a youth. Thero was not d. track or a road diiven through tb« bush co :he construction of which he hud not contributed, cither in actual formation work or m felling the standing trees. He was closely identified with the laying of the Pahiatua track, the Gorge road, the old Cliff road, which was later eroded by the Manawatu river, and other similar works, while the telling of the bush in the Kairange iisinct also received nis attention. H*i and lived for almost th#» entire period in Palmerston North, although for a time he had resided ut Waitotara. Air Aidous, who had never married, had also interested himself in the early ufo of the town and was one of the foundation members of (he Working Aden'*; Club. Ho was also closely identified with the Oddfellows’ Lodge and wa« one of the oldest Oddfellows mi Palmerston North. A man of fine physique, he retained all his faculties to the time of his death, and only iu recent months had suffered Imm a weakened heart, which brought about his death in the Palmerston North Hospital. He had no -datives in New Zealand.