PERSONAL.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 410, 17 April 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL.

i i Mr. B. A. Guise, treasurer of the ! Wellington Boxing Association, has ; retired after 24 years’ tervice. I i The. death ha s occurred »f Mr. Al- - lan McDonald, aged 93, the oldest ! pioneer of the Grty Valley. : Mr. Percy Lonergan, of California, ! United States, arrived in Stratford I Lo-day and is staying with his aunt, i Mrs. E. C Middleton. i Mr. P. Skoglund, No. 2 Transspbrt • , Licensing Authority, is visiting Strat- | j ford in conn c-Ugii with a si.ting of | | the Authority on Monday. * Prof Issor J>. Shelley. of ’ ; *he National Broadcasting Service, j who has been visiting Christchurch, j returned to Wellington yesterday. Rev. J. D. C. M. dill, of SH. Ar> dre .' a Presby’erian. Church, Blenheim, ha.s been appointed to the •barge of St. George’s Church, Lin- ! wood, Chris I church i ! Th i Misses T. and B. Stewart, of ' | Dunedin, who have been staying wi h | j their aunt, Mrs. C. Fenn, Portia | ! Street south, left to-day to spend a i ; few days with Miss Trimble, of In- ; j glewood. ! Dr. T. H. I’ullar, M.P., M.iR.C.P. ‘ (London), of M't. Vernon Hospital j North Middlesex, has been appointed j pathologist to the Palmerston North | Hospital at a salary of £9OO, rising j to £lOOO a year. He will commence j du'ies about July. i Mr. A. P. Thomson. B.For.Sc., only | son of the late Dr. Allan Thomson, * N iw Zealand’s first Rhodes scholar, j left this week .for Great Britain and ! the Con'inent to further his studies ■ in forestry. He has been on the staff j of the Forestry Department, Palmers. I ton North, for 19 months. j Sir Charles Fergusson, of Kilkeri ran, former Governor-General of New | Zealand, has been appointed lord- ; lieutenant of the County of Ayr, in I succession to the Marquess of Ails-a, i who ha s r tired, according to a mes- j ; rage' received in Dunedin. Sir 1 | Charles takes an ac'ive part in the; : work of he Church of Scotland, and j is well known as a speaker on the ! floor of the General Assembly. i Mr. W. O. Williams, qf Haw ra, left by the express last night on a holiday trip to Canada. For two years he had been presiden of the Aulomobila As- i sociation (South Taranaki), and at I Hawera on Thursday night he was j farewelled by members. At th? j. Stratford station last night, several : Stra.ford members of the association * I v.’.re present to convey their good | i wishes to Mr. Williams.