PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 130, 2 May 1940, Page 8

PERSONAL.

The Chief Justice, Rt. Hon. Sir Michael Myers, will presid,e at the sessions of the (Supremo Court at Palmerston North to open on Monday next. Mr L. H. Goddard, organist of the Wollongong Presbyterian Church, New South Wales, has been appointed organist and pianoforte master to the Waitaki Boys’ High School, Oamaru. A Press Association message from Hastings announces the death of Mr G. S. Luttrell, who took a close interest in all sports and was the successful owner of several racehorses. He was aged 54. Messrs A. M. Ongley, president of the Manawatu Rugby Union, and H. Hands, a member of tho union’s management committee, are visitors to Wellington for the annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union. Mr L. A. Robb, C.M.G., president of the New South Wales branch of the Returned Sailors’ and Soldiers’ Imperial League of Australia, and representative of the Federal president of the league, Sir Gilbert Dyett, at the Centennial Anzac Day celebrations, left Wellington for the north today. Mr a.nd Mrs Robb will be the guests of Major-General Sir Andrew Russell.

The death is reported from London of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Frederic Tweed, M.C., chief of staff and political adviser to Mr D-avid Lloyd George. He was one of the founders of the Liberal summer schools and was chief organiser of the Liberal Party from 1927 to 1931. He was the author of several novels which emphasised political and social trends, including “Rinehard,” “Gabriel Over White House” and “Blind Mouths.”

An old resident of Kilbir.nie, Wellington, Mr William Kershaw, died recently in the Wairarapa. Born in Lancashire in 1848 Mr Kershaw arrived in New Zealand in 1874. He was one of the first residents of Kilbirnie, where he went to live about 1879. Subsequently he farmed in Eketahuna, and for some years was a member of the Eketahuna Borough Council. Mr Kershaw is survived by two of - four children, by his first wife, Mr J. Kershaw, of Hataitai, and Mrs W. Cittidinni. Mr G. Kershaw, of Pahiatua, is a son by his second wife. Mr and Mrs C. G. Bayliss, of Gisborne, have received advice that their second son," Noel, has been accepted as a pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force. Noel Bayliss wa6 educated at tile Mangapapa and Gisborne High Schools, and later attended the Massey Agricultural College. He left lor Australia nearly four years ago to further his training in the wool industry and has been engaged in the wool business in Newcastle for the past two years and a half. He is the second of his family to join the Royal Ausr tralian Air Force,’, an elder brother having joined three-years ago and is now a chief aircraftsman stationed at Laverton, near Melbourne.

At an executive meeting of the Employers’ Federation it was announced that Mr W. E. Anderson had been appointed to succeed Mr T. 0. Bishop as secretary Mr Bishop resigned to take over the full-time secretaryship of . the Coal Mine Owners’ Association. Mr Anderson has been connected with the Auckland Employers’ Association lor nearly 20 years. He was the employers’ representative with the New Zealand delegation to the Internationah Labour Office conference at Geneva in 1937 and served for a short period as employers’ representative , on the Second Court of Arbitration. He is at present relieving on the Court of Arbitration in the absence through illness of Mr W. Cecil Prime. It is expected he., wijl be. .able to take up his new position in about a month.