PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 253, 24 September 1929, Page 6

PERSONAL

A London cable message announces the death of Cardinal Duscis, Archbishop of Paris.

Dr. French E. Oliver arrived in Palmerston North yesterday from IT.S.A., and is the guest of Mr R. R. Bycroft, Albert Street. Mr W. W. Bird, Chief Inspector of Primary Schools, is carrying out an inspection of Fiji schools, and is at present at Suva.

Mr John Porteous, senior inspector of Native schools, arrived in Wellington yesterday by the Maunganui after a tour of inspection of the schools of the Cook Group. The engagement is announced of Alys Marjorie, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs W. L. Fitzherbert, Palmerston North, to William Edward, elder son of Mr J. Mills and Dr Platts-Mills, Karori, Wellington. The New Zealand Methodist Times states , that Rev. H. L. Blamires, of Stratford, intends to become a supernumerary at the next conference, and will live in Merivale. He is suffering from increased nervous strain, the result mainly of his long and strenuous war experience. It is stated that he was the only Methodist chaplain who saw service in both Gallipoli and France.

A former Government bacteriologist, Mr John Alexander Hurley, died at his home, Rongotai, Wellington. He was an unmarried man. Mr Hurley, in his early days, was a medical student at Dunedin, but did not complete his course. He had special knowledge in bacteriological and pathological work, and joined the Health Department in 1903 as a sanitary inspector. In' 1905 Mr Hurley was appointed as an assistant at the bacteriological laboratory, Wellington, and in 1910 became Government bacteriologist, a position he held until his retirement on superannuation in June, 1925. Mr Hurley was for many years director of the Government vaccine station. The many friends in Palmerston North of Rev. H. G. Blackburne, formerly vicar of All Saints, will be interested to learn that he has accepted the appointment of the parish of Sandgate, between Folkestone and Hythe, England, and begins work there in October. In a letter to a local resident Mr Blackburne states that Mrs Blackburne has quite recovered from her recent illness. Recently, Mr Blackburne spent a holiday in Switzerland where he went bn a trip across a valley to Mt. Tiflis in a cage on a'wire rope. This aerial railway is 2£ miles in length and Mr Blackburne had the novel experience of being drawn up 1800 feet on to the mountain.