PERSONAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18540, 10 April 1930, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr S. G. Raymond, K.C., left Timaru yesterday on his return to London. Mr S. T. Clarke, formerly of the Timaru railway office staff, but now of Wellington, returned north yesterday after a short holiday here.

A cable message from London reports that Lord Birkenhead, who is holidaymaking at Biarritz, broke a small blood vessel. A medical bulletin states that his condition is improving, but private reports express anxiety. Mr H. H. Fraser and Mr J. Harley, representing the South Canterbury Rugby Union, left Timaru yesterday for Wellington to attend the annual meeting of the New Zealand Union. Southern delegates who passed through Timaru by the second express were Messrs A. Geddes (Southland), H. Harris and G. Nelson (Otago). A cable message from London announces that the Rt. Hon. Montagu Norman has been re-elected Governor of the Bank of England. This makes the eleventh year in which Mr Norman has filled the office of Governor, to which he was first elected in 1920. Prior to 1914 the Governorship was held in rotation, and never for more than one year, unless in exceptional circumstances. The late Lord Cunliffe made the first break in this unwritten law. To the general public, Mr Norman is almost a man of mystery, as he has scarcely appeared outside the financial sphere. To financial circled he is the supreme arbiter who ordains the movements of the Bank rate, which has been of supreme importance during his term of office.

An official wireless message from Rugby announces that a great journalist was honoured on Tuesday, when Mr C. P. Scott, who recently retired from the editorship of the “Manchester Guardian,” after 57 years’ service, received the freedom of the City of Manchester. The Lord Mayor of Manchester, who presided, said that Mr Scott had regarded his position as a public trust. He fought to secure justice and freedom, both at Home and abroad. No one had done more to increase the prestige of British journalism throughout the world. He was an international figure. What probably inspired the greatest admiration was his absolute fearlessness. More than once Mr Scott had literally taken his professional life in his hands by espousing a manifestly unpopular cause.