PERSONAL ITEMS

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 161, 11 July 1939, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. W. Justice Blair will preside at the sitting of the Supreme Court in Palmerston North next week.

Mr. R. H. Williams, secretary of the Masterton A. and P. Association, has been appointed Wairarapa provincial secretary of the Farmers’ Union in succession to the late Mr. James Watson. Mr E. C. Sare, who has been manager of the Hamilton branch of the Bank of New Zealand for eight years, has been promoted to the position of inspector. Mr A. A. Edwards, of Blenheim, will succeed Mr Safe.

Regret at the passing of Mr J. H. Perrett, of Sandon, was expressed by the Manawatu-Oroua Power Board yesterday, and a resolution of condolence with the widow and family was carried in the customary manner. The chairman (Mr J. Boyce) paid a tribute to the public-spiritcdness of the deceased gentleman, who among his many public offices had been a member of the Power Board for four years. His passing would be keenly felt, stated Mr Boyce, and he would bo a hard man to replace.

Advice has been rectived that Dr. R. R. Nimmo, son of Mr R. D. Nimmo, of Dunedin, has been elected to the first Nuffield Fellowship, established by Lord Nuffield’s munificent donation to Birmingham .University last year. Dr. Nimmo will work under the direction of Professor M. L. E. Oliphant, head of the department of physics. Dr. Nimmo is an old boy of the Otago Boys’ High School. He studied at the Otago University and there gained the degree of M.Sc. Winning the 1851 exhibition science scholarship, he proceeded to Cambridge and was successful in gaining the degreo of Ph.D. Later he lectured in the physics department of the Perth University, W T estcrn Australia, and has now gone to England to undertake the Nuffield Fellowship.

The death occurred in Christchurch yesterday after an illness lasting eight months of Father Mark O ’Leary, the well-known missioner of the Society of Mary in Australia and New Zealand. Father O’Leary was born in Masteiton in 1888 and was a brother of Mr. H. F. O’Leary, K.C., the well-known Wellington barrister. In 14 years on missions to parishes throughout Australia and New Zealand Father O’Leary became known as tho most gifted preacher of his day. He returned to mission work early last year after seven years in the Nelson parish, but his health broke down in October, since when he had been in hospital. He was educated at St. Patrick’s College, Wellington, where he was outstanding as an athlete and footballer, and at Meeaneo and Greenmeadows, being ordained in December, 1914.