PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

General Russell was waited on yesterday by a deputation of Napier,citizens requesting him to stand for tho Napier seat. He will reply later.

Mrs Norman has received advice that he,- son, Trooper B. A. Norman, is returning by the Ayrshire, due in Wellington about September 20th. On Thursday afternoon, Miss Lanyon was farewelled by the pupils of the Hawera District High School and presented with a bookcase and escritoire combined, made of New Zealand oak (taraire).

Mr. J. E. Hickey, of Kaponga, has announced his intention of contesting tho Egmont seat at the general election as a Liberal candidate, says the Eltham Argus.

The Very Her. Dean Binsfield, S.M., of Napier, has celebrated the diamond jubilee of his ordination to the priesthood. This fare event, unique in this country, was fittingly observed at St. Mary's, Greenweadows. A coble was received conveying congratulations and the apostolic blessing of HU Holiness Pope Benedict t. : Mrs R. Sawyer, of VogelWn, late matron of the Salvation Army Returned Soldiers' Hostel at Wellington, has received advice that her husband, Ser-geant-Major R. D. Sawyer, is returning by tho Hororata, due in Wellington about September 20th. The SergeantMajor is well known as 'Friday," of the Salvation Army Institute at Codford. He left with the 9th Reinforcements as a private in the medical corps. Four of the Liberal ex-Ministers have qualified, according to the customary requirement, to retain the title of "Honorable." Permission to retain this title is usually granted by the Governor-Gen-eral after three years' continuous service as a Minister of the Crown. The Hons. \V. D. S. MacPonald, A. M. Myers, G. W. Russell, and J. A- Hanan have been members of the National Ministry since its foundation "in 1915. Sir Joseph Ward, as a Privy Councillor, is Right Honorable.

Mr. Evan Parry, late hydro-electric engineer in New Zealand, arrived in England with Mrs. Parry on June 17, having travelled by way of America (reports an exchange). Landing at San Francisco, Mr. Parry visited a number of waterpower plants thero, and then proceeded to Chicago. He travelled on the electric railways between Chicago, Milwaukee, and San Paulo, and spent some days also, in Toronto. Mr. Parry is now engineer-in-chief of the English Electric Co., Ltd., a very large amalgamation of several older concerns embracing works in Rugby, Bradford, Coventry, Preston and Glasgow. The work of the company will he mainly in titbit Britain.

At the early age of •;>•:), Mr w. L, Bragg has been appointed In .succeed Sir Ernest Rutherford, formerly of New Zealand, in the Chair of Physics at Manchester. Mr Bragg became famous five years ago. His scientific ability is inherited, his father, Professor 'W. H. Bragg, being Professpr of Physics at University College, London, and first made his name by his studies in radioactivity some years ago. Shortly before the war. wheii the study of X-rays,, had received a new impetus from the work |of Lane and his collaborators, \V. L. Bragg hit on a brilliant but simple idea of. reflecting the rays from the faces of crystals, and so investigating both the nature of X-rays and the structure of crystals. In collaboration with his father he carried out an important series of researches >bji this subject, which led to father and Ron receiving jointly the Nobel prize ! in 1915, Mr Bragg was on active service in France from 1!)15 onwards, and rendered important services in connection with the location of hostile guns by sound.