PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 17, 17 December 1932, Page 6

PERSONAL.

The Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, and the Lady Bledisloe returned to Wellington yesterday from an official visit to Dunedin. In the morning His Excellency presided over the first meeting of the recently-constitut-ed Waitangi National Trust Board. The Bishop of Waiapu, Rt. Rev. Dr. Williams, is the guest of Mr H. N. Watson, of Te Awe Awe Street.

A Melbourne message reports the death of Mr L. A. Adamson, who for thirty years was headmaster of Wesley College.

A London cablegram states that Sir Harold Gillies, the famous British plastic surgeon, is confined to his bed suffering from phlebitis of the foot. Hon. J. G. Cobbe, Minister of Justice, left Wellington for his home at Feilding by the Limited express last evening. Ho will return to Wellington on Monday morning.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Coy., Ltd., has received cable advice of the death, on December 9, of Mr Arthur Frederick Wood, who was one of the company’s directors in London. Th© many friends of Mr P. A. Meehan, of Newbury, will regret to learn that his son Ronald lies seriously ill in the Palmerston North Hospital. The friends of the family will wish for a speedy and complete recovery. Rev. M. W. P. Lascelles, secretary of the Baptist Union of New Zealand, arrived in Palmerston North to-day. During the week-end he will be the guest of Dr. and Mrs Lascelles, "V ictoria Avenue. He will preach at the local Baptist Church on Sunday evening. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst, of Macclesfield, England, is expected to arrive at Auckland by the Rangitata on December 21. _ Sir Philip was a member of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907, and served in the Great War with the Ist Life Guards. Ho was later in the Egyptian Army, from which he retired in 1920. He will be accompanied by Lady Brocklehurst.

The Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, in paying a tribute to Sir Charles Statham, Speaker of the House of Representatives, as an old hoy at the Otago High School break-up, said there was no man in any part of the British Empire, including the Old. Country, occupying the extremely difficult and delicate position of Chairman of the House, who carried out his duty with greater dignity and With greater efficiency than did Sir Charles.