PERSONAL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19300, 29 September 1932, Page 8

PERSONAL

Mr T. Ritchie, general manager of Begg and Co., is at present visiting Timaru.

New Zealand's representatives in the Tourist Trophy motor-cycle road race in the Isle of Man, Mr A. Mattson (Auckland), and Mr H. W. Tolley (Palmerston North), returned by the Zealandia. says a Press Association message from Wellington. A cable message from London announces that Sir Henry Coward, the grand old man of music, is retiring at the age of 83 years, after conducting the Sheffield Musical Union for sixty years, without missing a single concert, and only two rehearsals. Mr P. Mac Lean, manager of the National Bank of New Zealand, at Timaru, for the past four years, has received notive of his transfer to Hastings, and will leave at an early date. Mr F. W. D. Aitken, accountant at the Christchurch branch, and formerly accountant in Timaru, will succeed Mr Mac Lean as manager here.

Mr W. Harding, who has been manager of the Regent Theatre for some time, will leave next week to :a.ce charge of a new theatre which is to be opened by Williamson’s Picture Corporation at Whangarei. Mr Harding s successor at the Regent will be Mr Errol Fuller, of the head office itaff at Wellington.

An official wireless message from Rugby announces that Mr Winston Churchill, who returned to England a few days ago, from a holiday in Austria. where he was taken 111 with paratyphoid yesterday entered a London nursing home, suffering from a recurrence of the malady. A bulletin states that Mr Churchill is very weak and ill, with severe haemorrhage, but his condition Is not dangerous.

A Press Association message from Wellington says that the local member* of Toe. H. gave a hearty welcome to the Rev. F. E. Ford, known as “Bobs,” in company with Mr F. Chappell, who for the past year has been aide-de-camp to the founder of the movement, the Rev. Clavton. Rev. Ford Intends to visit the East. He was in Lidia three years and joined Mr Chappell at Singapore, thence proceeding to Australia and here. They intend visiting both the South and North Islands, then go back to Australia and on to Hongkong. There the big object is to sow the seeds of Toe H. in the big cities of China, and possibly Japan, where It has not been started yet.