PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 261, 2 October 1940, Page 6

PERSONAL.

The death is reported from London of Sir Robert Hhdfield. the famous industrialist, metallurgist, and engineer, of Sheffield. Ho was aged 82. The death has occurred at Ngaio of Captain Henrv Guy Crawford O’Neill, formerly a well-known shipmaster, in his 78th year. Captain O’Neill was an authority on the Pacific Islands. Mr K. J. liolyoake, official National candidate for the Pahiatua electorate at the next flection, has left for Motueka after spending, a week making contact wit'll districts and individuals. Rev. R. W. Fursdon lias retired from Chenies Baptist Church, Bucks, after a pastorate' of 34 years, and intends coming to New Zealand, where he will join his son, who is noiv minister of Dunedin Baptist Church and president of the Baptist Union of New Zealand.

Rev. J. G. Heath, who recently arrived at Christchurch on furlough front Melanesia, has been appointed vicar of Papakura, iii succession to Itev. H. Sinclair, who was recently appointed to Takapuna. Mr Heatk was educated at King s College, took his theological course at St. John’s College, and later spent live years in Melanesia. The Wellington Presbytery yesterday received a largely signed call irom St. John’s Church m tuvour of ltev. P. Gladstone Hughes, 8.A., of St. Andrew's Church, Auckland. The call was sustained and sent on to the'Auckland Presbytery, to be dealt with next Tuesday. It is expected that 'Mr Hughes will not take up Ins duties in St. John’s till about the end of .November.

The Wanganui Education Board announces . that Mr Vivian Parson, headmaster of the Wairoa District High School, has been appointed headmaster of the Taihape District High School, and takes up his new appointment next February. He has had JO years’ experience, and has previously held the position of headmaster of the Eketahuna, Waipukurau, and Wairoa District High Schools. Mr J. C. Whibley-, the present headmaster at Taihape, has been appointed to the Palmerston North Intermediate School.

Having completed 41 years’ service with the Post and Telegraph Department, Mr F. G. Nind, chief postmaster, AVellington, retired on superannuation on Monday. Mr Nind was born in Dunedin, -where he began his career in the service as a message boy in 1899; He was subsequently promoted, and for a number of years remained in Dunedin as a telegraphist. Mr Nind has had a wide experience in all branches of the service, and has been transferred on no fewer than 16 occasions. Included in the important positions which-he has held are-those of superintendent (telegraph branch) at Palmerston North and Christchurch, and in later years, chief postmaster at Oamaru, Invercargill and Wellington. Mr Nind is to be succeeded by Mr F. AV. Mathews, who has been deputychief postmaster, AVellington, for the past six years. Flight-Lieutenant AA\ H. RhodesMoorliouse, D.F.C., who was reported killed in action in Monday’s Daventry broadcasts, was a son of the late William Barnard Ithodes-Moorhouse, the first airman to be awarded the Victoria Cross in the Great War. Flight-Lieutenant AV. H. llliodes-Moor-house, who was awarded the D.F.C. in July for bringing down 23 enemy machines, had many relatives in New Zealand. Born in March, 1914, he entered Eton College about 1928. Learning to fly while still a schoolboy, he gained his pilot’s certificate at the age of 16 while still at Eton. On leaving college he lived in London for some years, continuing to fly with the wellknown aviator, Mr T. Campbell-Black. Later he became a test pilot in a district near London and then a permanent member of the Royal Air Force just before the outbreak of war. In 1934 he inherited the entailed estate of his great-grandfather, the late Hon. AV. B. Rhodes, of Highland Park, AVellington. His grandfather was the late Mr Edward Moorhouse, brother of Mr Sefton Moorhouse. In 1936 lie married Miss Amalia Demetriadi, daughter of Sir Stephen Demetriada, at that time President of the London Chamber of Commerce.'