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Taranaki Daily News, 25 March 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. nnd Mrs. C. Carter, Who have been on a tour in the northern portion of the island, retuned to New Plymouth by the Rarawa yesterday.

Messrs. M. Forde and F. Hunt have been elected delegates from the Wellington Railway Officers’ Institute to the Dominion conference in May. —Press

Miss C. Leatham, who has been in Christchurch for the last six weeks, is to give a solo pianoforte recital in the Choral Hall in that city on the 30th instant. She expects to return to New Plymouth on about the 10th proximo. Mr. Percy Leggatt, of Sommerson and Sons, Dunbarton, is expected in New Plymouth on Wednesday and Thursday next. On Thursday he will be the guest of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce at luncheon.

Rev. C. Aker, of Okato, is being transferred to Rehia, the Northern Waiioa, and Rev. T. Flower, of that place takes charge of Okato. The transference is being made early in April. Rev. Aker is to be farewelled on Sunday at Okato aftd Tataraimaka. and the following Sunday at Opunake and Rahotu.

Mr. J. M. Adams, formerly of the staff of the Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch, who is to take up the position of Clerk of the Court at New Plymouth, vice Mr. J. Jordan, who retires, arrived in New Plymouth on Thursday night. Mr. Adams will take up his duties at the beginning of next month.

Canon Percival Stacy Waddy, whose appointment as Anglican Archdeacon of Palestine, was announced last week, is an Australian, and was born at Carcoar (N.S.W.) in 1875. He is a grandson of the last commandant of the Imperial troops in Australia, and was educated at the King’s School, Parramatta, and Balliol College, Oxford. Prior, to proceeding to England, Canon Waddy was headmaster of his old school, the King’s School. Canon Waddy is a fine cricketer, and while at Oxford represented Australia against England, and last year played against the Australian eleven tonring England. He also got his “blue” for Oxford in 1898-97. The death occurred at a private hospital in New Plymouth last night of Mr. Alexander C. Leslie, of Inglewood. Mr. Leslie has carried on business as a hairdresser and tobacconist at Inglewood for a number of years, and was a well-known figure on the bowling green. Deceased, who was 47 years of age, passed away after a very short illness.

Sir (Ernest Rutherford, says the Dominion, on all considerations, is probably the most distinguished New Zealander alive to-day, and has well earned his nomination as president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for 1922. He was born in Nelson, where his father, if I remember rightly, was farming up the Aniseed Valley —the family later removed to Pungarehu, Taranaki. Mr. Littlejohn, headmaster at Nelson College in those days, formed a very high opinion of his perseverance and ability as a youth, and declared young Rutherford even then could do almost anything in mathematics in his head without the least difficulty. After only three years at Nelson College he gained a Junior Scholarship and went to Canterbury College, and his first big chance came when he won an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship in 1894, and went to the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, of which he is now head. ,In 1896 Baequerel made his great discovery of radio-activity in radium, and the subject at once attracted Professor Rutherford, so much so that he is to day perhaps the world’s greatest authority on radio-activity. Despite his studious application Canterbury College, young Rutherford found time to fall in love with a fellow student, Miss Mary Newton, of Chriatchurch, and married her six years after he went to Britain with his ExhibitioJi Scholarship. Curiously enough, Lady Rutherford had Sir Isaac Newton for her uncle —not the discoverer of gravitation, but for many jfears curator the British MifMlun.