PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 28, 30 December 1932, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr F. P. Walkley, of Levin, is an inmate of a private hospital in Palmerston North, where he underwent an operation yesterday morning for an internal complaint. Mr C. H. Tarrant, of Sydney, who was a resident of Palmerston North and Awahuri about 30 years ago is at present visiting tlve district with Sirs Tarrant. This is their first trip to the Dominion for twenty years and they are travelling by road from Wellington to Auckland. The death occurred in England on November 28 of Mr James Old Hume, one of the most famous men in British brass band circles. He was a composer of some note, and several of his marches are included in the repertoire of most brass bands. The “8.8. and C.F.” march, by Mr Hume, was the A grade band march test at the last contest in Wellington. His “Twentieth Century” and “Brilliant” marches are also well known. Mr Hume visited New Zealand in 1903, when he acted as judge at a big contest held in Masterton. Mr Godfrey Holdsworth, M.C., who has been appointed a director of the New Zealand Shipping Company, is, says a London correspondent, one of the most popular shipping managers in the city. A son of Sir Charles Holdsworth (for many years managing director of the Union Steam Ship Company), he was educated at Wanganui Collegiate School and received his early business training with the Union Company. Mr Holdsworth is a member of several committees of _ the Shipping Federation and the National Maritime Board. He is one of the managing committee of the training ship Worcester, and has taken a great interest in the training of cadets in the New Zealand Shipping Company s vessels. He is a liveryman of the Shipwrights’ Company and a freeman of the city of London. He is also on the London board of the Union Steam Ship Company. In 1922 he married a daughter of Lord Inverforth.