PERSONALITIES

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 65, 18 March 1938, Page 6

PERSONALITIES

Mr. E. W. Whitehead, of the Post and Telegraph Department, has received notice of his transfer to Invercargill. Me leaves for that town on Tuesday. Mrs. E. Johnston and her two sons are staying with her sister, Mrs. 1 William Cotton, Beattie street, Feilding. Mr. D. J. Rogers, of North street, and a director of the C. M. Ross Co., Ltd., who has been confined to his room for the past fortnight, is now able to resume business duties. Captain F. N. Attwood, R.N., who commanded H.M.S. Laburnum on the New Zealand Station from 1927 to 1920, has been posted to H.M.S. President for the senior officers’ course. Captain C. E. Hotham, D.S.C., R.N., who commanded H.M.S. Laburnum in New Zealand from 1929 to 1931, has been posted to H.M.S. Warspite and appointed captain of the fleet to Commandcr-in-Chief in the Mediterranean. The Gazettte announces the following appointments to the Stock Remedies Registration Board: Mr. H. S. S. Kyle M.P., on the recommendation of the New Zealand Veterinary Association and Mr. H. J. S. Rickard on the recommendation of the New Zealand Pharmacy Board. Captain F. W. Collins has been appointed master of tho Union Company’s new freighter Korowai, now nearing completion at Glasgow. He will leave by the Aorangi sailing from Auckland next Tuesday to take over the lvorowai for the maiden voyage out to New Zealand, and will be accompanied by Mr. R. Blampied, who has been appointed chief officer. Squadron Leader G. S. llodson, who wiil be engaged in flying instruction at Wigram, and Squadron Leader J. Davidson, who will specialise in equipment organisation, will reach Wellington by the Ruahine on April 6. They are Royal Air Force officers who are to interchange with Squadron Leader J. L. Findlay and Flight Lieutenant Denton, who have left for England. Colin Horsley, the talented young Wanganui pianist, has been advised by cable from London that he has been awarded a scholarship from the Royal Schools of Music, London, amounting to £l5O a year for two years, tenable in London, for obtaining the highest marks in the North Island for the L.R.S.M. In 1937 he won £25. A fund is now being collected to enable him to continue nis studies abroad. The passing of Mr. F. J. Nathan was referred to at a meeting of the executive of the Manawatu and West Dairy Companies’ Association yesterday, when a resolution of condolence with the widow and family was carried in the customary manner. It was stated that Mr. Nathan had done more for the dairy industry than any other man in this district and that he would be a hard man to replace. Having concluded tho first section of a dual mission to New Zealand by his attendance at the centenary celebra‘tious at Auckland of the Roman Catholic Church in New Zealand, Very Rev. Father W. J. Schaefer, AssistantGeneral of the Society of Mary (Marist Fathers), is now engaged on the second part of his official duties and is visiting tho various offices of tho society in New Zealand. Y r estcrday he concluded a short stay at the Highdon Novitiate, near Awahuri. According to a Gazette notice the following have been appointed members of the New Zealand Onion Marketing Advisory Committee: Messrs. R. Browne Tennent/G. A. Holmes (Government representatives), R. W. Bilkey, J. W. McMiken (growers’ representatives in No. 1 and No. 2 districts), J. J. Blackburn, D. Goode (growers’ representatives in No. 3 district), F. Brown, E. G. Robertson, G. E. Royds (merchants’ representatives in No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 districts) respectively engaged in the business of the wholesale marketing of onions in New Zealand. Mr. Patrick Hamilton, Mackenzie road, Pleasant Point, Canterbury, celebrated his one hundred and eighth birthday yesterday. Mr. Hamilton was born at Cardonogh, County Donegal, Ireland, on St. Patrick’s Day, 1830. From his father lie learned much about farming and stock raising before he came to New Zealand, and he was among the many who suffered the hardships of the great famine in Ireland. When he was 39 years old he came to the Dominion with a brother, Mr. Alexander Hamilton, in the ship Seline, which arrived at Lyttelton after a voyage of four months.

Mr. C. K. Gamble, who was recently appointed Managing Director of Vacuum Oil Coy., Pty., Ltd., arrived in Auckland by the Monterey from New York, accompanied b Mrs. Gamble. Mr Gamble is no stranger to New Zealand. Between 1927 and 1934 Mr. Gamble, then an important Vacuum executive, resident in Australia, paid us severa_ visits and made many friends in the Dominion. Mr. Gamble was born in California, w r here his father, a Fellow of Queen’s College, Belfast, had immigrated from England to found the first public schools modelled on the famous public schools of England. He was later acknowledged one of the outstanding classical scholars of the United States. With this scholastic atmosphere surrounding his youth, Mr. Gamble studied at the University of California, and completed a brilliant course with an Honours Degree in Arts. After graduation, he entered upon a business career w’hieh has since extended from the United States of America to Europe, Asia and Australia. In these four continents, Mr. Gamble has won an enviable reputation not only as a marketer of petroleum products, but also as a fine citizen. In 1917, Mr. Gamble resigned the post he then occupied in Greece, to enlist with the first American contingent to arrive in France, and was on active service for eighteen months with the Field Artillery. Mr. and Mrs. Gamble, who have a very soft spot in their hearts for New Zealand and Australia, are looking forward to renewing many old friendships. Their popularity is evidenced by the flood of telegrams they received from New Zealand an 1 Australian friends when Mr. Gamble’s appointment as Managing Director of Vacuum Oil Coy., Pty., Ltd., was annonunced.