PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 245, 14 September 1929, Page 8

PERSONAL.

According to a cable message from London, Lord Craigavon, Premier of Ulster, and party are sailing to-day for New Zealand. Mr W. G. Wliitehouse, of tire staff of the National Bank in Wellington, has been transferred to Palmerston North and takes up his duties at this centre on October 1.

Rev. George Budd, moderatordesignate of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, will make an extended tour of the South Island in connection with homo mission activities.

A cable message from Sydney states that Sir Louis Barnett, Emeritus Professor of Surgery of Utago University, is a passenger by the Ulimaroa, which left Sydney for Wellington yesterday. •Rev. H. Van Staveren, of Wellington, who has passed through a severe illness, is now convalescent. He has been able to take a few motor rides in line weather, and is regaining his strength satisfactorily. Rev. K. A. Karawa, who has been Maori mission priest at Morrinsville for the past twenty years, has been appointed a canon of St. Peter’s Cathedral, Hamilton, in place of Rev. E. S. Wayne, of Waihi, who resigned the post at the last Diocesan-Synod.

Rev. Robert Evans Davies, Professor of New Testament Studies at Knox College, Dunedin, who passed away this week, was born at Mold, Wales, being the son of Mr Evan Davies. He was educated at the University of Wales and Christ’s College, Cambridge. From 1903 to 1909 he was minister of the Petersham Presbyterian Church, Sydney, and from 1909 till 1919 minister at Knox Church, Dunedin. In 1919 he was appointed Professor of Greek at Knox College. The death occurred at Dunedin on Thursday at the age of 61 years of Mr R. H. Simons, who was well known in the railway service in both the North and South Islands. After serving in various departments at Dunedin, Oamaru and Port Chalmers, he became stationmaster at several places in the North Island, including Petone and Wellington. He returned to Dunedin in 1920 as a stationmaster and retired five years later. He conceived many new devices to facilitate the working of the railway service. A varied career closed when Captain Joseph Rodgers passed away at Devon-port,-Auckland. Born in 1862 in Melbourne, he went as a child to Falmouth, England, with his parents, and when 15 he joined the Navy. At the age of 17, when in H.M.S. Shah, lie was one of a naval detachment that saw service ashore during the Zulu War of 1879. Two years later he came to New Zealand, and in H.M.S. Lark he took part in the survey work that vessel did in the Islands. Leaving the Navy, lie decided to settle in Auckland, and ever since then up to 1920 he was engaged in the coastal trade. A great swimmer, he on several occasions saved life, notably when he rescued two Maoris from drowning at Warkworth, and later in Auckland Harbour when lie rescued a number of people who were thrown into the water when there was a collision in the harbour, and the coastal boat Kapanui was sunk.