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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 267, 9 October 1933, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr G. W. Brown, postmaster at Waimate, has received notification of his transfer and promotion to the position of postmaster at Marton. ' The friends of Mr E. W. Christian will learn with regret that he has again been compelled to enter hospital for treatment. He will be wished an early return to health. The many friends of Mr I. E. Griffiths, of College Street, will be pleased to learn that he is making a satisfactory recovery from his severe illness, and hopes to be about again in a few days. Rev. E. W. Hancock, who has been attached to the Hamilton Cathedral clergy staff, has been appointed to succeed Canon C. E. Newbould, vicar of Te Kuiti, who has left to take charge of Okato, Taranaki. Professor T. H. Easterfield will retire from the directorship of the Cawthron Institute a.t the end of the year. The first Cawthron lecture was given by Professor Easterfield 16 years ago, the subject being “The Aims and Ideals of the Cawthron Institute,” and this year, instead of the usual lecture, Professor Easterfield will review the work of the institute since its establishment. In a short statement made during the public church service at the Wellington City Mission yesterday evening, the missioner Rev. T. Fie,lden Taylor, announced his intention of retiring shortly. The announcement was the result of his doctor’s advice, as he is suffering from increasing illhealth. He will relinquish the position of city missioner from March next. On' Saturday morning the GovernorGeneral presented privately at Government House to Lady Gray, who was accompanied by Mr Sinclair Gray, the Royal Letters Patent appertaining to the recent bestowal by ilis Majesty the King of the honour of Knight Bachelor upon Sir Alexander Gray, K.C., whose death occurred prior to the receipt by His Excellency of the Letters Patent. A Napier Press Association message reports the death of Mr John William McDougall, aged 85 years. Mr McDougall, who was at one time editor of the Daily Telegraph, Napier, was born at Peterborough in 1849. He arrived in New .Zealand in 1874, and followed the occupation of a builder until 1881, when he became editor ot the Waipawa Mail. In 1883 he was appointed chief reporter of the Hawke’s Bay Herald, and he became editor of the Telegraph in 1894. He was a member of 'the Napier Borough Council for several years, and for many years Masonic Provincial Grand Master.