PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 258, 28 September 1940, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Rev. E. W. Hancock, vicar of Te Kuiti, has entered camp as a military chaplain. Mr Clifford Huntsman, the wellknown English pianist, is the guest of Hon. AY. Moifatt and Mrs Moffatt, of Chaytor Street. Dr. J. F. Staton, examiner for the Royal Schools of Music (London), who was to have conducted examinations in AVanganui this week, has been compelled to remain in Hawera because of illness. Rev. J, G. Heath, of Christchurch, has been appointed vicar of Papakura in 'succession to Rev. H. Sinclair, who was recently appointed to Takapuna. Mr Heath was educated at King s College, took his theological course ar St. John’s College, and later spent five years in Melanesia. Mr J. C. AVliibley, principal of the Palmerston North Intermediate School, is visiting the city on matters in connection with the school, which opens next year. Yesterday he attended a meeting of the provisional committee, and in the evening met the headmasters of the primary schools. This morning he addressed 13 members of the new staff.

Mr James Lockie Stewart, a member of the legal firm of Sladden and Stewart, of AVellington, has been appointed Grand Secretary of the Manchester Unity, Independent Order of Oddfellows (New Zealand), in succession to the late Mr A. G. Shrimpton. Mr Stewart has had a wide association with the Manchester Unity, 1.0.0. F. He was District Grand Master in 1936 and is now the district treasurer.

The death occuried suddenly yesterday of Constable A. King, who has been stationed in Timaru for 10 years, states a Press Association message from Timaru. At one time he was a footman in the service of King George V. He served in the Great AVar and was a member of the Metropolitan Police Force, London, for seven years. He leaves a widow and nine children. One son is in the Army, one in the Navy, and one in the. Air Force. Advice has been received of the death at Aden of Squadron-Leader Alan C. Mitchell, R.A.F., while in hospital under treatment for, peritonitis. He was the eldest son of the late Colonel George Mitchell. He joined the R.A.F. in 1926. serving for some years in Egypt and Iraq and afterwards at several stations in the British Isles. Two years ago he was transferred to headquarters_ in Aden. He leaves a wife and infant daughter, who are in Bombay. A pioneer of Hawke’s Bay commercial, activity and a man who'had taken a prominent part in public and semipublic affairs in Hawke’s Bay, Mr Nathaniel Kettle died yesterday afternoon in Napier, aged 86. Mr Kettle, who was born in Dunedin in 1854, thirty years later joined Mr F. AAL Williams in, a business which he had founded three or four years earlier, and which subsequently became known as Williams, and . Kettle. Ltd. He was interested in military affairs and commanded the Hawke’s Bay and East Coast Volunteers. On the outbreak of the Boer AA’ar he took charge of the Napier Guards, and then commanded the East Coast Battalion as lieutenantcolonel. In 1880 Mr Kettle married a daughter of Major von Tempslcy, commander of the Bushranger Corps during the Maori AA r ars. His wife predeceased him two years ago. and he leaves two sons. Messrs F. V. Kettle and R. D. Kettle, of Napier, and two daughters, Airs J. Flatten, of London, and Airs S. A. Alolfatt, of New Y 7 ork.