PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 241, 10 September 1929, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr A. J. Palmer left by the Limited on Sunday night on a business trip to Auckland. A Press Association telegram from Christchurch announces tire death, at the age of 65 years of Mr Robert Malcolm, head of the firm of Messrs R. Malcolm and Coy., warehousemen, who was well-known throughout the Dominion. A Sydney cable message states that enthusiastic parties of friends farewelled Mr Fletcher,*of New Zealand, and Instructor-Commander Moyes, who sailed by the liner Nestor yesterday to join "the Mawson Expedition. A cable message from London announces the death of Mr Malcolm Scott, the comedian. For the greater part of liis 1 career he appeared as “The Woman Who Knows.” ' Mr Scott was a brother of Admiral Sir Percy Scott. A London cable message announces the death of Major General Joseph Maria. Gordon, formerly Commandant of Military Forces in Victoria and New South Wales, and afterwards Cnief of the General Staff of the Commouwealth Section of the Imperial General Staff. Major-General Gordon, who was aged 73, wrote in 1921 “The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon.”

Mr Douglas Standage, for twentyseven years on tlio staff of the Bank of New Zealand and for the past three and a half years manager of the Timaru branch of that institution, has this month taken # up his new position as general manager of the Mount Cook Motor Coy., Ltd., and !he Tongariro Tourist Coy., Ltd. Mr Standage is at present at the head office in Timaru, but at the end of September he will take up liis residence at the Chateau and remain there for the next few months.

On the Aorangi, which arrived at Auckland on Sunday were a number of local residents, all of whom returned to Palmerston North to-day. They included Mr and Mrs 11. E. Pacey, of Russell Street, who with Miss Jean Pacey and Miss Georgina Laurenson, have been on an eight months’ trip to England, Scotland, Wales, the Continent, Canada and the United StatesMr D. Buchanan, the well-known breeder of Tiakitahuna, who with Mrs Buchanan has been on a trip to Canada, U.S.A. and Scotland; Mr and Mrs M. A. Eliott and Mr and Mrs N. H. Nash and Misses K. and N. -Naslij who spent a most enjoyable holiday in Honolulu. Mr and Mrs Pacev were met at Auckland by two of their sons who returned to Palmerston North with them.