PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 133, 6 May 1940, Page 6

PERSONAL.

The appointment of Mr. Ft. Patterson as Superintendent of Mercantile Marine at Foxton is gazetted.

The Chief Justice, lit. Hon. ‘ Sir Michael Myers, is a visitor to Palmerston North, where he is presiding at the current sessions of the Supreme Court.

Veil. Archdeacon W. Bullock (Archdeacon of Wellington), who entered a private hospital in March for an eye operation, is reported to be making very good progress. Canon D. B. Malcolm (vicar of Hawera) has not yet recovered from the illness which overtook h’m on his return to liaivera from Wellington, where for two years he was organising secretary of the Diocesan Centenary Appeal. Though he is progressing, it is expected that lie will have to take three months’ rest.

The staff of College Street School, at the e.nd of the term, 6a.d farewell to Mr N. H. Tunnicliffe, who is leaving to take charge of the Foxton District High School. They extended him good wishes and presented him with a pipe. Guests for the occasion were Mrs Tunnicliffe and Mr and Mrs A. H. McLean, the former being the College Street School’s new headmaster. Mr J. T. McDonald, secretary of the Manawatu Badminton Association and also of the Palmerston North Badminton Club, has been nominated as a vice-president of the New Zealand Badminton Federation, there being three nominations for two vacancies. He has also been nominated for the management committee of the New Zealand Federation, on which he. will be automatically elected as the number of nominations does not exceed the vacancies. The death occurred on Saturday m Marton of Mr P. M. Wood, a wellknown and highly-respected resident of the town, aged Go years. Mr Wood was a .member of a well-known North Canterbury family, and was himself among the first settlers on the Cheviot estate. In later years he had been associated with a land and estate agency business in Marton. Mr Wood leaves a. widow and three daughters. Misses Helen, Margaret and Tui Wood, and one son, Mr John Wood, a Hawke’s Bay farmer. Pilot-Officer Kenneth Neil Gray, D.F.C., whose deatli was officially announced by the Air Ministry, was a former master at St. George’s School, Wanganui. He joined the Royal Air Force two years ago. He won the D.F.C. last January for gallantry against the enemy. Born at Papanui. he was educated a.t Christ’s College. Christchurch, Wellesley Boys’ School Wellington, and the Napier Bovs’ High School. He served in the Territorial Armv of New Zealand, and in 1937 obtained a commission in the R.A.F. Mr William Yates, of Wellington, has been appointed secretary of the National Broadcasting Service. He has had long experience in accountancy, departmental administration, and the arrangement and presentation of broadcast programmes. Coming to New Zealand from England in 1912, he joined the Education Department in 1914. He was appointed accountant to the first Unemployment Board in 1930. and in 1934 joined the Broadcasting Board as supervisor of plays. Since 1929 he has broadcast as an artist in concerts and plays, and has written a number of scripts for presentation by the national stations.