PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 248, 18 September 1929, Page 6

PERSONAL.

,Tlie Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) resumed his place in the House of Representatives yesterday.

A cable message from Sydney states that Dr. Edmund Gleeson has been consecrated Coadjutor Bishop of the Roman Catholic See of Maitland. A Press Association telegram from Wellington announces the death ol Captain John Bollons, master of the Tutanekai, who was taken ill at sea about a fortnight ago. Mr Justice Frazer, President of the Arbitration Court, who spent some weeks in Australia investigating the working of the industrial arbitration system, returned by the Ulimaroa from Sydney yesterday. Rev. Alfred F. Hall, vicar of Tauranga, has (states a Press Association telegram) been appointed vicar of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Evangelist at Napier, in succession to tho late Very Rev. Dean Mayne. Mr R. H. Eyre, of Chelwood Street, has sufficiently recovered from an operation he underwent recently to return to his home. Mr Eyre’s many friends will be pleased to learn of his progress toward normal health. Mr F. Bryant and his son, Dr. E. H. Bryant, of Tunbridge Wells, England, who have spent several weeks in New Zealand, leave Palmerston North to-day for Auckland, where they will join the Aorangi to return via America to the Old Country.

Sir Louis Barnett, Dr. P. E. Allison, Dr. R. A. Fulton, Dr. A. Josephs, Dr. H. Jellett, Dr. P. Lynch, Dr. E. Lynch, Dr. J. Moore, Dr. S. Moore and Dr. T. H. Usher, who attended the medical conference in Sydney, returned by the Ulimaroa yesterday. A letter of thanks and appreciation has been received by Major J. B. Whyte, D. 5.0., of Hamilton, from Lieut.-Colonel R. N. Smythe, Adjut-ant-General, writing on behalf of the general officer commanding the New Zealand Forces, on the occasion of Major Whyte being posted to the retired list after 44 years’ service. Major Whyte, who is now 72 years of age, was born in Scotland, and came to New Zealand when two years of age. He joined the volunteers in 1885, and served through the South African War, where he was awarded the D.S.O. and the Queen’s Medal. He also served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Egypt throughout the Great War.