Personal

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 39, 16 February 1939, Page 6

Personal

Mr. Glyn W. Rees-Jones returned to Wellington yesterday by the Wanganella from a business visit to Melbourne.

The Rev. Father J. A. Higgins, S.M., organiser of Catholic Action in the Archdiocese of Wellington, left Auckland by the Awatea on Monday to attend a Catholic Action Conference in Melbourne

Dr. Frederick G. Spurdie, of Wanganui, has taken service under the Methodist Missionary Society, and has been appointed to take charge of the Glen Community School, in St. Vincent, British West Indies.

His Grace Archbishop O'Shea, of Wellington, visited Ireland at the end of last month. His Grace, who visited Rome recently and had an audience with his late Holiness Pope Pius XI, is not expected to return to Wellington before Easter.

Mr. \V. \V. Mullhoi-and, Dominion president of the New Zealand Farmer’s Union, is to visit Wanganui next week and will attend the farmers’ rally at Makirikiri which is being held to discuss the deteriorated land problem and other matters of interest to hill-country farmers.

Sir Walter James, former Chancellor of Perth University and a former Premier of Western Australia, was a passenger on the Stratheden, which arrived at Wellington this week. He is accompanied by a daughter, Mrs. Walsh, and a niece, Mrs. Harold Gardener.

Mr P. Keesing, barrister and solicitor, Wellington, has retired from the profession, having accepted an appointment as New Zealand manager for an Australian company with which he has been associated as a<tornev. His practice has been taken over by Mr. H. R. C. Wild.

Mr. W. S. Wauchop, a member of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, a well-known artist and one of the two producers for the Wellington Repertory Society, ha» oeen appointed a member of the management committee of the National Art Gallery Io succeei Mr. W. H. Glimmer, Auckland.

Mr. W. Rowe, who has served on the Mangaonoho School Committee for 20 years, is to be written a letter of commendation by the Wanganui Education Board. • Because of consolidation progress the school has been closed and it was reported (p yesterday’s meeting of the board by the chairman (Mr. E. F. Hemingway) that Mr. Rowe had been on the committee from 1919 to 1926, from 1927 to 1932, and from 1933 to 1938. “I don’t think we can say too much in praise of a man like that who has worked for the board for so long,” Mr. Hemingway said.