PERSONAL ITEMS

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 175, 27 July 1938, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. P. Noakes left by the Monterey from Auckland for the United States to take a year’s post-graduate study in dentistry at Northwestern University, Chicago. Mr. E. Clevely, of Bunnythorpe, was welcomed back after his absence through illness from the meetings of the executive of the Manawatu Rugby Union last evening. Mr. J. I. Craig, financial adviser to the Egyptian Government, is a visitor to Wanganui and is the guest of Mr. F. W. Gilligan, headmaster of the Wanganui Collegiate School. Mr. G. W. Hutchison, tho newlyappointed District Governor of Rotary in New Zealand, returned by the Niagara after attending the annual convention of Rotary International at San Francisco.

Sir Bruce Bruce-Porter, a distinguished doctor, will leave England for Canada on July 23, in the course of a world tour. Ho will arrive at Sydney on October 22 and will visit New Zealand next March.

Mr. A. J. Birtles, until recently a member of the staff of the Hutt Valley High School, left by the Monterey with Mrs. Birtles to take up the position of principal of tho Methodist Teachers’ Training College, Suva. Dr. W. E. Adams, son of Dr. G. J. Adams, of Wanganui, leaves by the Port Hardy from Wellington on August 3 en route to England. He has been appointed senior assistant in the anatomy department and lecturer in histology at Leeds University. Hon. Christopher Loder and Hon. Henrietta Loder, son and daughter of the Governor of New South Wales, Lord Wakehurst, arrived m Auckland from Sydney by the Monterey. They will leave by the RangiDki from Wellington to-morrow for England. Sir Norman Kater, a member of the .Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, was a through passenger for Sydney by the Niagara, which arrived at Auckland from Vancouver on Monday. With Lady Kater, he has been on a holiday visit to Great Britain and Europe. Mr. E. A. Jones, assistant general manager of the Vacuum Oil Company Pty., Ltd., in New Zealand, left yesterday by tho Monterey on a three months’ business visit to New York. During his absenco his place will be taken by Mr. R. Martin, the company's manager at Auckland.

Mr. Lester Moller, who left Dunedin in July, 1935, for Oxford, as the holder of a Rhodes Scholarship, will leave London for Dunedin on July 30. While at Oxford Mr. Moller obtained his degree of 8.C.L., a noteworthy achievement, as the examination for Bachelor of Civil Laws is one of the most difficult in tho world.

The death occurred at Dunedin this afternoon at the age of 62 years, of Mr. George Lyon Cuthbertson, surveyor and engineer to tho Waitaki County Council, Oamaru, since 1915. A well known golfer he attended the New Zealand championships, and was holder of the North Otago championship six times and also the Invercargill and Southland championships.

The Railway Officers’ Institute elected the following officers: —President, Mr. E. W. Barnes (Wellington); North Island president, Mr. M. J. Forde (Wellington); South Island president, Air. J. S. H. Orr (Invercargill); executive committee, all Wellington —viz, Messrs. C. D. Abrahall, G. H. Hoare, J. S. Lynch, P. J. O’Donnell (traffic representatives), W. Sullivan (workshops and technical branch), L. A. Ellis (locomotive running), B. Langney (maintenance branch), W. J. Wilson (stores branch), A. F. Taylor and J. H. Wilson (auditors).

On the occasion of his ninetieth birthday, many friends and relatives gatnered at the residence of Mr. Robert Gordon, 275 Ruahine street, Palmerston North. Despite his age, Mr. Gordon is very active, his eyesight and hearing are very good and his memory is unimpaired. Born in Carlisle, Cumberland, in IS4B, Mr. Gordon migrated to New Zealand with his parents at the age of fifteen. They settled in the Rangitikei district, where Mr. Gordon was engaged in farming pursuits for over 40 years. In 1885 Mr. Gordon married the third daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Oxharn, of Kelburn, Wellington. Of their five children two have passed away, and the three surviving members are Mr. O. R. Gordon and Mrs. J. G. Dearlove, of Palmerston North, and Mrs. C. Morris, of Kairanga. In 1904, through ill health, it was necessary for Mr. Gordon to abandon his farming activities, and since then he has lived in retirement in Palmerston North.