Personal

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 203, 29 August 1942, Page 4

Personal

Commissioner J. Evan Smith, Salvation Army, left for the south yesterday to conduct anniversary celebrations at Oamaru and to attend a Youth Council in Dunedin. Mr. E. W. E. Cordingley, licensee of the Imperial Hotel, Wanganui, leaves to-morrow to enter the Navy. Mr. Cordingley was a member of the R.N.R. in England during the four years of the Great War. The Rev. V. C. Venimore, formerly of Wanganui, has been transferred as chaplain, from the Army to th.i Air Force. He is revisiting Wanganui, and will preach in St. Peter’s Church, Gonville, to-morrow. Mr. Hector Christie, Dominion Chief Commissioner of Boy Scouts, is visiting Wellington. On Thursday he had an audience with the GovernorGeneral, Sir Cyril Newall. Mr. Christie will not be returning to Wanganui until late next week. The death has occurred of Mr. William Henary Burd, of Murupara. He was foreman of the native development scheme in the district. He was well known as a rifleman, athlete and footballer, and was for a time connected with the Rotorua Brass Band. Leiutenant C. S. Pepper, M.C., of Auckland, a former All Black footballer, who was invalided back to New Zealand from the Middle East some months ago as the result of wounds suffered in Libya, has been promoted to the rank of captain on the New Zealand Temporary Staff. The death has occurrel following a long illness of Lieutenant-Colonel James Armstrong, Dannevirke. He was educated at the Bishop’s School, Nelson, and also at Nelson College, from where he went to Otago University to study medicine, and later to University College, London. On his return to New Zealand in 1905 he took up a sheep farm at Glengarry, and afterward acquired Maungatanlwha station, Wairoa, which he owned at the time of his death.