PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 182, 3 July 1937, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Hon. Rangi Mawhete, M.L.C., of Palmerston North, is visiting Auckland. Mr W. J. Lyon. M.P. for Waitemata, has been the guest of Messrs McCully and Heggie, Bunnythorpe, during the week.

A London cable message announces that Canon Peroiva] James, vicargeneral of the Wellington diocese, has been appointed vicar of Halifax. Rev. Belshazzar Gina, of the Methodist Church Solonmn Islands Mission, is the guest of Mr and Mrs T. R. Hodder. Alan Street, during his visit to the city.

Mr W. J. Allen, who for the past nine years has been head shepherd at Massey College, has taken a position with the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, Co., Ltd., at Feilding.

Rev. A. H. Scrivin, general secretary of the foreign mission department of the Methodist Church of New Zealand, is a visitor to Palmerston North and is staying with Mrs A. Jamieson, Albeit Street.

Claimed to be the oldest ex-jockey living in New Zealand, Mr George Fraser, of the Awapuni Home, will celebrate his 96th birthday to-uorrow. He won his first race at Nelson in 1860 for Sir Edward Stafford, who later became Premier. Mr W. E. Henderson, who has been headmaster of the Iviritaki School since the beginning of the year, has been appointed headmaster of the provincial school, Eastern Ladoni, Fiji, near Suva, and leaves by the Niagara at the middle of this month to take up his new position. Rt. Rev. J. H. Dickinson, until lately Assistant-Bishop of Melanesia, has taken temporary charge of St. Barnabas’ parish, Mount Eden, following the resignation of Canon F. G. Harvie. The bishop will leave for England later to become vicar of Felkirk, Barnsley, Yorkshire.

Rev. J. E. Jones, vicar of Hunterville, and a former student of St. John’s College, Auckland, has been accepted by the Church Missionary Society for work in Chapva, Bihar Province, India. He will leave in November to take up his new duties.

Mr Harold E. Jones, assistant manager, Australian and New Zealand division, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, is a passenger to Australia by the Mariposa, arriving at Auckland on July 9. Mr Jones, after visiting Australia, will return to New Zealand in September and spend a month for a complete tour of Todd Motors, Ltd., organisation. Mr H. F. Ayson, Resident Commissioner and Chief Judge of the Cook Islands, who was recently succeeded as Resident Commissioner by Mr S. J. Smith, secretary of the Cook Islands Department, returned to Auckland by the Matua from Rarotonga on Wednesday to take up the position of Judge of the Native Land Court.

There passed away recently at Palmerston .[North Mr Geoffrey Lawrence Valiender, a promising young Rongotca resident. He had been ill for only a few weeks, and his untimely deatn came as a great shock to his many friends and relatives. The eldest son of Mr and Mrs L. Vallender, of Kaimatarau, he was of a particularly bright and happy disposition and took a keen interest in sport; until his illness he was an' active member of the Longburn Football Club. Born in 1920 at Kaimatarau', the young man had lived with his parents in the district for the last 16 years and received his education at the Carnarvon School. The funeral was held at the Rongotea cemetery, when the pall-bearers were- members of the Football Club, Messrs R. Saxton, W. Young, J. Mossop, 11. Gardiner. L. Craig, J. Cocker, and also members of the local Young Farmers’ Club, Messrs G. Burgess, D. Lind. J. Teaz, D. Arnott, 11. Gloyn and J. Gloyn. Besides his parents, three sisters and two brothers mourn the passing of Mr Vallender.