PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 21, 21 December 1932, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Rev. A. TV. Payne, former warden of St. John’s College, Auckland, returned yesterday from a visit to England and Scotland. Mr Payne will make his future home in Levin in his old diocese. Mr H. J. Geddes, M.Agric.Sc., assistant in agriculture at Lincoln College, will leave in March next to take up an appointment as district agricultural organiser in Tasmania under the Department of Agriculture of that State. The death occurred at Masterton on Monday night of Mr Charles Bentley, •aged 84 years, who was associated with numerous local organisations, and had been a bandsman for fifty-three years. He was a keen bowler, and in his younger days a good cricketer. Rt. Rev. H. W. Baddeley, the new Bishop of Melanesia, who leaves for the Islands on January 6, will arrive in Palmerston North early this evening from Wellington. His Lordship will be accompanied by Rev. F. C. Long, secretary of the Board of Missions. Major A. Ludbrook, of the Salvation Army, Bombay, India, arrived at Wellington by the Zealandia from Sydney yesterday. Major Ludbrook, who is on furlough, intends to spend about two months in the Dominion. He has been stationed in India since 1927, but prior to that served in China. The retirement of Colonel R. W. Tate, C.M.G., C.B.E.,.stipendiary magistrate for Taranaki, is announced. He will be succeeded by Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., of Wellington. Mr Tate reached the age for retirement last July, but his term was extended. Upon vacating office he will leave New Plymouth to live in the Wairarapa. Mr Herbert S. B. Fletcher, who has occupied the position of general secretary and controlling surveyor to the Council of Fire and Accident Underwriters’ Association of New Zealand for the past 27 years, and who is retiring at the end of the year, was farewelled by officers of insurance companies in Wellington yesterday afternoon.

Mr F. R. Bushell, who has been associated with the London office of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, for the past few years, latterly as wool and produce manager, has recently been appointed to the position of inspector of the company in New Zealand as from January 1 next. Mr Bushell is now en route to New Zealand per the Niagara which is expected to arrive in Auckland about December 26 instant. Ven. Archdeacon W. J. Hands, at present of Suva, Fiji, has been appointed to succeed Rev. Otho Fitzgerald as vicar of Avonside, Christchurch. Educated at Durham University Archdeacon Hands qualified for ’ n I®®?, an< l was ordained m 1910 by the Bishop of Manchester, tie came to New Zealand three years later. In the Wellington diocese ho was vicar first of Tinui, then of Waverlev, and then of Khandallah, where he built the present church. Eight years ago Arohdeacon Hands went to Suva to be vicar of the Pro-Cathedral.