PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 214, 10 August 1937, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Hon. W. E. Barnard, M.P., was a visitor to Palmerston North last night and attended a meeting of the local branch of the Five Million Club. Mr E. Bruce Levy, of Palmerston North, who is at present on a visit to Britain, attended the recent Grassland Congress at Aberystwyth, North Wales. Mr E. Fisher, advisory engineer to the Palmerston North River Board, and his daughter, Mrs W. H. Gilmore, have returned from a holiday spent in Australia. Mr F. J. Swindell, who lias been somewhat seriously indisposed, is now well on the road to recovery. His friends will be pleased to learn that he expects to be about again next week. A motion of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr C. N. Clausen, of Victoria Avenue, was passed at the monthly meeting of the general committee of the xvlanawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association, to-day. Dr. Cyril Norwood, president of St. John's College, Oxford, who visits ed Dunedin with other educationists recently, has been elected president of the Modern Churchmen’s Union in succession to the Dean of St. Paul’s, Dr. W. R. Matthews. It was reported at the monthly meeting of the general committee of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association, to-day, that Mr Q. O. Wilson, of Bulls, is at present a patient in hospital. The meeting decided to forward him a letter of good wishes. The distinction of being the oldest minister of the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand is held by Rev. Alexander Greig, St. Clair, who celebrated his ninety-ninth birthday tovlay. Mr Greig has been connected with only one presbytery since his appointment to the charge of Otago Peninsula 69 years ago. -’Mr F. S. Arthur, who for the past few years has been in charge of the wool and produce department of the Dunedin branch of Dalgety and Co., Ltd., and has been appointed New Zealand representative in London on the International Secretariat for Wool Publicity and Research, is to sail from Auckland on Saturday next.

The many friends of Mr W. Park, formerly Mayor of Palmerston North, will regret to learn that he recently suffered a fall in South Street, while returning from a visit to the railway station. Mr Park received a cut in the vicinity of an eye, but although he has been obliged to remain at his home in Batt Street, he is making a good recovery.

Professor F. L. W. Wood, of X ictoria University College, who is president of the League of Nations Union of New Zealand, left last night for Auckland on the first stage of his journey to Geneva. Professor Wood is to be temporay collaborateur on the secretariat during the meeting of the League Assembly, and he intends to spend about three months studying current affairs in England, France, Germany and Italy.