PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 143, 17 May 1940, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Mayor (Mr A. E. Mansford) is now well on the way to recovery after being confined to bed for several days. Mr C. Andrews, of Otago University, is spending the vacation with his parents. Mr and Mrs F. N. Andrews, of Alan Street.

Colonel J. J. Ess on, J.P., formerly Secretary to the Treasury, is undergoing treatment in a private hospital is Wellington.

Dr. W. R. B. Oliver and Mr B. C. Aston have been reappointed members of the council of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

A Hamilton message reports the death of Mr W. W. Fulton, aged 85, one of the Rangitikei pioneers. His wife was Miss Bett, of Mnrton, who predeceased him several years ago.

Air Marshal Sir Robert Hamilton Clark-Hall (retired list) has relinquished at his own request the rank of Air Marshal, while re-employed with the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and is granted the temporary rank of WingCommander.

The reorganisation of the child welfare activities of the Department of Health, following the recent retirement of Dr. Elizabeth Gunn, and the appointment of Dr. H. B. Turbott, medical officer of health, Hamilton, as director of the whole of these activities, 1 were announced yesterday by the Minister of Health (Hon. H. T. Armstrong). Dr. Turbott will be designated Director, Division of Schools Hygiene, in the meantime.

Hon. F. Langstone, Minister of Native Affairs, passed through Palmerston North to-day by car on liis way to Gisborne to attend the funeral, on Sunday, of the late Mr H. R. H. Balneavis, for many years private secretary to the Native Ministers. Mr Langstone was accompanied by Mr 11. N. Jones, formerly Chief Judge of. the Native Land Court, and Mr Campbell, Under-Secretarv of the Native Department. They were welcomed at Palmerston North by Hon. W. Moffatt. Colonel Alexander Edward Stewart, C. D. 5.0., died at his home at Anderson’s Bay, Dunedin, on Tuesday, at the age of 73. He was a prominent soldier of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War, going overseas in the command of the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd New Zealand Rifle Brigade. For some time in France he commanded the brigade with the temporary rank of brigadier-general. As a soldier ho won high honours, his awards including the C.M.G., the D. and the French Croix de Guerre, and he was mentioned three times in dispatches. Rev. Percival William Stephenson, M.A., 8.D., Sydney, who has been, appointed Bishop of Nelson, in succession to Bishop Hilliard, is an Australian with a distinguished record of service with the Church of England in India and Canada as well as in his own country. He was born in Victoria and educated at the Caulfield Grammar School, Melbourne. and later at Trinity College, and he took the degree of master of arts, with honours, at Melbourne University in 1910. To become a missionary he entered Ridley College as a theological student and he was ordained in 1912. He spent two years in a country parish before being sent by the Church Missionary Society to Peshawar on the NorthWest Frontier of India. There he served on the. staff of the Edwardes College, first as tutor and-later as principal, and while in India he studied for and obtained the degree, of bachelor of divinity of London University. Hcaltli reasons caused him to relinquish missionary service after ten years, and lie was appointed by the C.M.S. to be professor of exegesis at St. John’s College, Winnipeg, where he was elected canon of-Winnipeg Cathedral. Four years later he returned to Australia as Federal . secretary for the Church Missionary Society in Australia and Tasmania. He then became headmaster of Trinity Grammar School; 1 in Sydney, and" in 1938 took up his 'duties as Commonwealth secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society.