PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 219, 16 August 1937, Page 6

PERSONAL.

1-lon. Rangi Mawhete. M.L.C., of Palmerston North, left Wellington for the south by the steamer express on Saturday night.

Mr W. Mouldey, who is at present indisposed, showed, his friends will be pleased to learn, an improvement at the week-end.

His Grace Archbishop O’Shea, who officially' dedicated and opened St. Columba’s Church at Ashhurst yesterday, returned to Wellington to-day. The friends of Mr W. Hunter, who has been indisposed for several weeks, will be pleased to learn that he has enjoyed a distinct improvement and is progressing towards a satisfactory recovery.

Dr. P. T. Putnam is to be absent from Palmerston North for three or four months for rest and a holiday, beginning about the middle of September. At to-day’s meeting of the Hospital Board lie was granted leave of absence from the honorary medical staff. The Taihape correspondent of the Wanganui Chronicle states that Rev. J. C. Abbott, vicar of St. Margaret’s, and formerly of St. Peter’s, Terrace End, is at present an inmate of a private hospital. Mr Abbott took a bad turn early last week, and is seriously ill. His many friends in Palmerston North wilL regret to learn of the recurrence of his illness.

Mr A. H. Cockayne, Director-Gen-eral of Agriculture, returned to Wellington on Saturday after attending the Grassland Conference in Dunedin. Others in the party were Mr R. B- Tennent, Director of the Fields Division of the department; Mr N. Fov and Mr C. 0. Hyde, of the Seed Testing Station, Palmerston North: Mr A. Jacques, Massey College; and .Mr J. W. Woodcock, crop experimentalist, Wellington.

Mr W. C. Collier, managing-secre-tary of the Waihi Hospital Board, and a former resident, has been granted leave of absence to attend the annual meeting of the Royal Life-saving Society at Auckland on August 25, when he is to be presented with a bronze star, the distinguished service medal of the society. The presentation is to be made by the Mayor of Auckland, Sir Ernest Davis. There are only three decorations of the kind in existence —one in Toronto (Canada), one in Birmingham (England) and the third in Waihi.

Among the passengers who arrived at Auckland from Southampton on Saturday was Mr S. G. Owen, a former Oxford Don and a grandson of the early New Zealand statesman, Mr Henrv Sewell, who led the first Ministry'formed after the establishment of a responsible Government in 1856. Mr Owen, who is making a round trip in the Mataroa for health reasons, is nearly 79 years of age, and was born in England only five years after his grandfather arrived in New Zealand in 1853 to assume the local charge of affairs of the Canterbury Association.