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PERSONAL.

Air and Mrs D. W. Aratheson, of Levin, have returned from their trip to the United States and Canada. Air and Airs E. Healey left for Sydney this week, accompanied by Air B. G. Gower, of Foxton. Mr and Mrs Healey intend remaining' in Sydney for twelve months. Nicolaieveich Andruszneke, who died at a village near Tiflis, gave his age as 150 years. He was a Corporal in the Russian Army during Napoleon's advance on Moscow, and participated in the pursuit. He drove to Tiflis the night before he died to purchase tobacco. lie filled his pipe and then fell asleep and died.

The Oiago University has nominated Air William Graham AlcClymont for the 1027 Rhodes Scholarship. Air AfcClymont, who is 21 years of age, is a prominent footballer and cricketer, is a Master of Arts, having gained first-class honours in history in 1925. He is at present acting ns assistant to Dr. Elder, Professor of History.

The Governor-General and Lady Alice Fergusson motored from Pieton to Blenheim yesterday morning. They were met on the outskirts by the pipe hand and played to the Square, where the Mayor and chairman of the County Council officially welcomed Their Excellencies to the district. The Vice-Regal party were entertained at luncheon and inspected the various points of interest. Last night there was a public welcome and reception at the Town Hall, and a further round of festivities has been arranged for today, to-morrow and Saturday. Picton was en fete on Tuesday and accorded the distinguished visitors a right royal reception.

The oldest member of the Christchurch Diocesan Synod, and the oldest Church of England clergyman, in New Zealand, the Rev. Jasper Smyth, is 87 years of age, and is still in good health. He is attending the present session of the synod in Christchurch. Next Alonday, Air Smyth will have been 63 years in holy orders. Air Smyth is wellknown, not only in Canterbury, but throughout the Dominion. He may be constantly seen in Christchurch, riding a bicycle. Last year his cyclometer registered 1870 miles, from •January, 1925 to January 1926, a remarkable record for a man of his age.

Air H. D. Skinner, lecturer in ethnology at the Dunedin University College, who is a son of Air and Mrs W. H. Skinner, of New, Plymouth, and who has been awarded a travelling fellowship by the Rockefeller Foundation, leaves for America in November for the purpose of studying the latest ideas and developments in that country in his branch of science. He will land at San Francisco, go thence to New York, and will spend some time A 7 ale University. He is the only New Zealander to he awarded the Rockefeller fellowship this year. One was awarded in New South Wales and one in Victoria, but these were not for ethnology. Air Skinner . has, therefore, achieved a considerable

distinction. Some years ago Mr Skinner was on the tutorial staff of the Palmerston N. High School.

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3541, 23 September 1926, Page 2

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494

PERSONAL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3541, 23 September 1926, Page 2

PERSONAL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3541, 23 September 1926, Page 2

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