PERSONAL.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIX, Issue 3160, 9 November 1929, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Dr F. M. Spencer, late of Hamilton, who is specialising in children’s diseases, has been awarded a Rockefeller Scholarship, and is to spend the winter, with his wife and family, at Boston, Mass., United States, writes a London correspondent.

Rev. Geo. Brown, the pioneer ministZoaland, will celebrate his 99th birther of the Presbyterian Church in New day an Monday next. Rev. Brown is a resident of Onehunga. He was. born in Scotland and came to. New Zealand in 1860.

The death has occurred at Te Awamutu of Mr Louis Theodore Bcrgemann. Mr Bcrgemann came to the Waikato from England jvith his wife and a young daughter in 1909, settling at Pukeatua and after three years they came to Hairini, removing to Puniu Road in 1914, where Mr Bcrgemann was a dairy farmer, i

Following on the extraordinary vacancy and his unopposed election as member for the Ma’ungatautari riding, Cr E. Nickle took his seat at the monthly meeting of the Matamata County Council yesterday, and was accorded a hearty welcome by the chairman (Cr J. W. Anderson) and councillors.

Dr Henry Burrell, of Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, has been appointed missionary doctor and superintendent of the Paton Memorial Hospital, Vila, New Hebrides. This position has been vacant since the resignation of Dr S. Heriot last year. The committee is fortunate in having secured Dr Burrell for this work through the good offices of the New Zealand Church’s Foreign Mission Committee. After his war services, Dr Burrell studied medicine at Dunedin University, and took his degree of M. 8., Ch.B., in 1928. For 12 years he has cherished the hope of foreign missionary service, and it is expected that he will begin work at Vila in March, 1939.