PERSONAL ITEMS

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 153, 1 July 1939, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. John Height, who has been visiting Auckland, has returned to his homo at Linton.

Dr. D. McK. Dickson has been re elected iDresident of the North Canter bury Acclimatisation Society.

Mr. M. Bleakly, assistant lecturer in zoology at Canterbury University College, has been granted two years’ leave of absence to enable him to visit England for research Avork.

Canon G. Y. Woodward, Rev. D. V. de Candole, Messrs C. H. Handley ami E. Whitcombe Avill be the synodsmeu from All Saints’ parish to attend the Wellington Diocesan .Synod which opens on July IS.

Mr. J. T. AndreAV, who has been manager and secretary of the Bainosse Coojicrative Dairy Co., Ltd.) for 19 years, has relinquished the position of manager, but is carrying on as secretary of the company. He will be succeeded as manager by Mr. D. Mclntyre, of the company’s staff.

Mr. A. Ulfsby, of Rarotonga, was a passenger by the Matua, which arrived at Auckland on Thursday. Mr. Ulfsby, who is a Norwegian, is making his first visit to New Zealand after spending 10 years in the Cook Islands. Ho will leave by tho AAvatea on Monday for Sydney on his way home to Norway.

Regret at the recent passing of Mr Frederick Bryant is expressed in All Saints’ Parish Magazine, which states that he was well known to the older generation, being at one time a churchwarden of All Saints’ and a member of tho vestry. Ho had, in his youuger days, been a keen worker for the welfare of the parish.

As a mark of respect to the memory Of the late General EdAvard Chaytor, whose death occurred in London recently, cx-serviccmen attending the annual re union of the Levin Returned Soldiers’ Association, on Wednesday evening, stood in silence. Several of those present . served under General Chaytor when lie was commanding the mounted division in Palestine during the Great War.

At the funeral of the late Mr James Arthur Cruickshank at the Kelvin Grove Cemetery on Thursday afternoon, members of the Palmerston North Police Force were pall-bearers. They comprised Detective-Sergeant A. 15. Meiklejohn, Sergeant W. N. Ferguson, and Constables Chapman, Arnold, Goodwin, and Fell. Also prqseut was Mr P. Harvey, cx-Inspector of Police. Mr Cruickshank AA-as formerly a sergeant of police. In the unavoidable absence of Rev. J. Hubbard, Rev. R. Warnock, of St. David’s Church, Terrace End, conducted tne service at the residence in Pahiatua Street and at the graveside.

The death lias occurred of Hamilton’s oldest resident, Mr. Tnomas Took, of Claude Street, Claudelands, aged 98. Mr. Took was born in England, and as a young man Avas employed as a market gardener in London and Surrey. He was sent to New Zealand 62 mrs ago by Sir James Fergusson, fat. .’ of Sir Charles Fergusson, a former GovernorGeneral of Ngav Zealand, to act as stockman and shepherd on the Gordon Estate near Cambridge. Later Mr. Took worked as a contractor on the Monovalo Estate, and Avas afterward at Thames, TauAvharo and Te Aroha. Sixteen years ago he went to Hamilton and had lived there ever since.