PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 242, 10 September 1940, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr H. Milner, general superintendent of the New Zealand Alliance, is visiting the King Country this week He will be accompanied by Mr H. Grinstead, district secretary.

His Honour Mr Justice Smith is at present visiting Palmerst-on North, and is presiding at a special sitting of the Compensation Court to fix the price to be paid by the Crown for a block of land taken at Moutoa.-

Rt. Rev. H. Holland (Bishop of Wellington), who recently underwent an operation, has now returned to his home from hospital. After a short stay at Bishopscourt. His Lordship will gc away to continue his convalescence. Mr R. Allison, of Palmerston North, leaves shortly to join the Royal Navy, and at yesterday’6 meeting of the Rotary Club, of which he is a member, ,the president (Mr H. L. Cunninghame) extended the members’ best wishes to him.

Pilot-Officer F. AV. Hall-Jones, son of Mr E. G. Hall-Jones, of Invercargill, has received advice of his transfer to the Royal Air Force in England. He is at present in training at Blenheim air station and he will leave for England soon. Mr Bernard Allen, New Zealand manager of United Artists (Australasia) Pty., Ltd., died suddenly this morning at a private hospital in Wellington. Mr Allen was born in Brisbane 49 years ago and went to Wellington in 1929 as New Zealand manager. He was a keen golfer and fisherman, and had made a number of deep-sea fishing expeditions, being successful with swordfish off Cape Brett. —Press Association.

Well-known as a master mariner and a veteran of the Union Steam Ship Company’s service. Captain Richard Edward Smith, of Herne Bay, Auckland, died on Saturday at the age of 92. He joined the service in 1877, two years after the company was founded, and he remained continuously with it for 34 years. He commanded some 50 of the company’s vessels. In all. lie spent 66 years at sea, including the Great War period for services during which he was decorated by the Admiralty. .

The death has occurred of Rev. Charles Connor, of Napier, a wellknown minister of the Presbyterian Church in Hawke’s Bay, in his 85tl. year. He was licensed as a minister in 1879, and for M years held a charge in Old Meldrum, in Britain, also spending a short time ministering to English tourists in San Remo, Italy, and a year in South Africa. Later lie settled in Waikare, North Canterbury, and afterward spent nine years as minister of the Port AhuririMeeanee, combined charge. He also held a brief charge in Kelburn, AVellingtou.