PERSONALITIES

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 46, 24 February 1938, Page 6

PERSONALITIES

Mr. H. R. Rhodes, who f6r many years has been a buyer for the C. M Ross Co., has resigned from their service, in order to take up an important position in Christchurch. He leaves for the south to-day. Mr R. Pollock, representing Stanley McKay’s “Gaieties’’ vaudeville and revue company, is in Palmerston North making arrangements for the company’s season at the Opera House, commencing on Saturday, March 5. Professor J. H. Kolb, chairman of the department of rural sociology at the University of Wisconsin, is visiting New Zealand accompanied by his wife and daughter. During his stay of several months in New Zealand he win give expert assistance to the Bureau or Social Science Research, recently established by the Government. Professor Kolb will establish his headquarters in Wellington. The Crown Prince of Tonga arrived by the Matua at Auckland on his return to Sydney University. He is accompanied by his younger brother, Prince George Gu, who will be placed in a school in Auckland to be educated. The Crown Prince early this month was treated a noble under the title oil Tuboutoa. Nearly all the inhabitants of the Tongan group, in which there are about 80 inhabited islands, went to Nukualofa for the ceremony. Mr P. Martin-Smith, M.A., LL.B., of Palmerston North, has been appointed director of tutorial classes by the Auckland University College Council. Entering W.E.A. work last year he was stationed at Palmerston North and undertook the task of re-building W.E.A. organisation in the Wellington provincial district, where it had inevitably suffered severely during the depression period. In little less than six months he succeeded in building up an c ‘ganisation of classes, discussion groups und active committees exceeding anything which has been found possible in the past. Mr. G. S. Kent, one of the leading members of the legal profession in Auckland, is dead. Mr. Kent was an original partner in the firm of Earle. Kent, Massey and North, the firm with which the whole of his professional life was spent. Mr. Kent was born in Auckland and educated there. After graduating Ll.B. at Auckland Universtiy in 1902, he joined Mr. F. Earle, K.C., in the firm of Earle and Kent, which is now Earle, Kent, Massey and North. Mr. Justice Northcroft was at ope time a partner in it. Mr. Kent was recognised as a most able solicitor and successful negotiator. He was specially noted for his knowledge of company law.

Dr. Ernest F. Thompson, son of Mrs. F. A. Thompson, Jervois road, Auckland, and a graduate of the Auckland University Collegefi who has been appointed hydrologist to the Bermuda Bio-' ogical Station for five years by the Royal Geological Society, will confer with colleagues at Harvard University in the United States and then join a research ship. After Dr. Thompson had graduated as a bachelor of science, he became assistant director of the Canterbury Museum, and in 1930 at Canterbury College he took his master’s degree in science. He was awarded an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship, under which he went to Cambridge to study under Professor Stanley Gardiner. He then became biologist in charge of the Egyptian Government research ship which was doing the work of the Challenger expedition in the Indian Ocean, and because of a thesis he wrote upon the subject lie was awarded a doctorate.