PERSONAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3598, 12 February 1927, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr. C. H. Chapman has been selected as the Labour candidate for the Wellington Mayoralty. Nurse Norris, late of the Karitane hospital, Wanganui, will commence duty as resident Plunket nurse in Levin on Monday, February 14th. Thomas A. .Edison, the famous inventor, celebrated his 80th birthday yesterday. Mi'. Edison still works twelve hours daily in his laboratory, and is at present conducting over twenty experiments. Cable news was Received in Wellington on Thursday night of the death in Sydney of Mr. li. L. Fowler, who was for 18 years principal of the Nelson College. Tie retired in 1921 and left Wellington on Friday last on a pleasure, trip with his wife to the Old Country. A message from Pa'hiatua announces the death of Mr. Charles Ifuldaway, aged 83, at Otorhanga. Mr. Holdaway was a former Ballanoo pioneer, and was an active and well-known identity. He was connected with various institutions in I lie early days of the Ballanee settlement, residing at, Masterton before, settling at Ballanee.

The death occurred at Christchurch', yesterday, of one of the pioneers of Canterbury, Mr. Andrew Anderson, second son of the late Mr. .John Anderson, the founder of the Wellington engineering and foundary business now known as Anderson’s Ltd. The late Mr. Anderson was one of the first children born in Christchurch after the arrival of the 'first 'four ships. He was assoeiated with the linn in important railway and bridge construction work in the Dominion, including several of the large viaducts on the Main Trunk Line, notably the Mnkalole, to date the largest viaduct in the Dominion.