PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 118, 17 April 1940, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Tho Governor-General. Lord Galway, has been pleased to accept the office ol patron of the Manawatu and V est Coast A. and P. Association, according to advice received at a meeting of tlie committee of the association to-day. LI is Excellency, attended by Captain Lord Dormer, A.D.0.. paid _ a visit of inspection to the Royal New Zealand Air Force Station at Levin yesterday. Dr W. B. High it, a graduate of Otago "University, has been awarded the Lord Nuffield Scholarship in Orthopaedic Surgery at the "Wingfield Morris Orthopaedic Hospital, Oxford.

Mr W. G. Shannon, of Newbury Line, has returned after a visit of seven weeks to Australia on business. He visited Melbourne and Sydney and also took the opportunity of attending the Royal Show.

Rev. H. L. Fiebig, 8.A., of Christchurch, wlio has been appointed superintendent minister of the Cuba Street Methodist Church, arrived in Palmerston North to-day, accompanied by Mrs Fiebig and family. A motion of sympathy with Mr H. B. Stuckey, of Daunevirke, the wellknown stock broader, who is ill, was passed at a meeting of the general committee of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association to-day. Sir Harry Batterbee (High Commissioner in New Zealand for the United Kingdom, who has been visiting Dunedin, was the guest of honour at a Mayoral reception last evening. He left for the North to-day.

The newly appointed treasurer (Air A. G. Lawson) and Afessrs AY. J. Slack, N. AYilson, and G. M. AYhiteloek, new members of the committee, were welcomed at a meeting of the Manawatu and AYest Coast A. and P. Association to-day.

Captain AY. AA’. Dove, Af.C., assist-ant-adjutant and quartermaster-gen-eral Northern Military District, and Captain J. G. C. AYales, AL.C., deputyassistant adjutant and quartermastergeneral, have both been promoted to the rank of major. Lieutenant-Commissioner J. Evan Smith, tlie new Territorial Commissioner of tlie Salvation Ariny in New Zealand, who has been visiting Palmerston North, returned to AA'elhngton by car with Airs Smith and tucir son, Mr D. Smith, this morning.

Mr A. E. E. Clark lias started duty as relieving assistant of the Palmerston North Bovs’ High School in place of Mr ,T. J. Stevenson, who recently ceased duties as a member of the staff to take up ail appointment with the Wellington Education Board. Captain J. Corbett-Scott, of Alaniikau Road. Auckland, celebrated his 102nd birthday on Monday. Captain Corbett-Scott is the only survivor of the band of Europeans who held the Pukekohc East Church against an assault by the Waikato Maoris in 1803. Mr A. Mcß. Walker, a former Wanganui representative in Association football, who' suffered an injury while plaving eight years ago, has passed away, at the early age of 29 years, as a result of the accident. Because of the injury lie had to have a leg amputated and never recovered from the trouble.