PERSONALITIES

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 39, 16 February 1938, Page 4

PERSONALITIES

The death is reported from Washington of Rear-Admiral Cary Grayson. Rt. Rev. C. W. West-Watson, Bishop of Christchurch, arrived in Wellington yesterday morning from the south. Sir Cyril Ward, accompanied by Lady Ward, arrived in .Wellington yesterday morning from the south.

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Clay, formerly of Auckland, have taken up their residence in Wellington, where Mr. Clay was recently appointed manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company. Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, accompanied by Mr. Francis Chichester, left Wellington for Blenheim yesterday morning in the Wellington Aero Club’s Whitney Straight. Mr. William Manson, of James Templeton and Company, Glasgow, arrived at Auckland by the Awatea on a six months’ business visit to New Zealand. Mr. Manson is accompanied by Mrs. Manson.

The Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) will leave Wellington at the week-end for New Plymouth to preside over the criminal and civil sessions of the Supreme Court, which are expected to last about a week.

Mr. Justice Reed is presiding at the Wanganui sittings of the Supreme Court, at the conclusion of which he will return to Palmerston North to Complete some civil business. He will be engaged on Prisons Board work from March 5 to March 23. The death has occurred at Melbourne of Mr. Andrew Fleming, former manager of Fleming and Company, Gore. For some years he had been managing the Melbourne branch of the firm. Well-known in New Zealand, he was about 51 years of age. With the intention of spending hi a annual holidays in Australia, Mr W. A Waters, chief engineer of the Mana-watu-Oroua Electric Power Board, lefl Palmerstou North by ’plane on Monday for Auckland, where he will join the Sydney steamer.

Owing to his now residing in Wellington Cr. C. W. Merrylees has tendered his resignation as a member of the Dannevirke Borough Council, which was before the fortnightly meeting. “1 really intended to return to Dannevirke, but at present it is indefinite,” wrote Cr. Merrylees in his letter to the town clerk. ‘‘ I wish the Mayor, councillors and the town clerk a very happy new year. ’ ’ With his term of service as aide-de-camj) to the Governor-General of Australia, Lord Gowrie, completed, the Earl of Ranfurly arrived iu Auckland by the Awatea to spend a three-week fishing holiday in tlie Dominion before returning to England. Born iu 1913, the earl is a son of the late Viscount Northland, who was killed in action in 1915, and is a grandson of the fifth Earl of Ranfurly. The congratulations of the. Lower Hutt Borough Council were extended to the chief inspector, Mr. J. Fletcher, on his appointment as a member of the examining board and an examiner for New Zealand for the Royal Sanitary Institute. It was both a personal honour and an honour to the council, saicl the Mayor, Mr. J. W. Andrews. Mr. Andrews said he regretted that an at tack of illness prevented Mr. Fletcher receiving the congratulations in person.