PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17612, 30 October 1931, Page 6

PERSONAL

Sir Michael Myers, the Chief Justice, wiio underwent an operation in a Wellington private hospital last week, is making steady progress towards recovery. Lady Bledisloe is confined to bed in Dunedin with a feverish chill, and has cancelled all appointments for the weekend.—P.A. According to a message from Auckland, the well-known All Black Rugby player, T. R. Sheen, has been transferred to Glasgow, and will leave New Zealand by the Port Alma, Sheen represented New Zealand in 1926 and 1928. A call has been accepted bv the Rev, Alexander Astor, rabbi of the Jewish congregation' in Dunedin, to the position of assistant rabbi of the Auckland Synagogue. After spending three months in further; rabbinical studies in Australia he will take up his new duties early in the new year. Mr. J. D. Ormond, jun., who was selected as the official Reform candidate to contest (ho Waipnwaseat- at the general election, is withdrawing in favor of the sitting member, Mr. A. E. Jullp on account of the Government going to the country as a Coalition party. It is stated that Mr. Ormond is willing to offer himself for selection as the Coalition candidate for the Napier seat. Flight-Commander A. Binley, formerly of Wanganui, and now of the Royal Air Force at Amman, Transjordania, expects to arrive in New Zealand on leave on December 8. He is now in command of a .flight composed of five pilots and machines and 30 men, together with the .ground organisation and maintenance. Prior to leaving for Ehgland to join the R.A.F.,,Mr. Binley was-employed in a Wanganui bank. Mr. F. C. Chichester, the New Zealand airman who has been awarded the Guild of Air Pilots and Navigators trophy for the best feat of civil aviation dinting the year, and whose whereabouts are so uncertain that the authorities are wondering how and when they will l>o able to present the plaque to him, is at present in Tokio, Japan, so far .as hi| friends know. He has been there or thereabouts since his ’piano crashed and bo was badly injured at Kalsuua on August 17. It is thought tliat he will be going (m to England j but very likely by steamcri, but just.when no one seems to know.

Praise for Dir. T. O. Lowry, the captain of the New Zealand cricket team, was voiced by Mr. W, IT. Winsov, secretary of the New Zealand Cricket Council, speaking at a meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Cricket Association. “Mr Lowry holds a very high place in our admiration,” lie said. “He is a most capable skipper—l think the best skipper in big cricket in the world to-day. hatters from England aNs very laudatory of his management of the ’ last team which visited England. 1 consider he is a great credit to Hawke’s Bay. I had the pleasure of knowing him at college, mid he was a very fair and just sportsman.”