PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 30 July 1937, Page 6

PERSONAL.

A London cable reports the death of Mr Thomas Herd, managing-director of the Distillers’ Co., Edinburgh. Mr D. F. Smillie, of Palmerston North, has been elected president of the New Zealand Motor Omnibus Proprietors’ Association.

Mr A. E. Flower, first assistant master at Christ’s College, is to retire at the end of the year. He lias been at the college for 51 years. Mr J. H. Mansel, of the’ accountancy branch of the General Post Office, Wellington, lias bsen appointed to succeed Mr C. F. A. Waters, relieving supervisor at the Palmerston North Post Office. At the monthly meeting of the Palmerston North branch of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society last evening a motion of sympathy was passed with the relatives of the late Mr C. Dasent, of Ivarori, who passed away yesterday. He had been for a number of years the secretary of the Wellington Society, rendering conspicuous service. Air YYTlliam Binet Brown, headmaster of the Johnsonville School, who had been promoted to take charge of the Britomart Street School after the mid-winter holidays, died yesterdav at the age of 48 years, states a Wellington message. Air Brown joined the service of the Wellington Education Board as a pupil-teacher at Island Bay in 1906. He next served as an assistant teacher at Worser Bay, and afterward at tlie Newtown, Te Aroand Clyde Quay Schools. He was promoted to be headmaster at Roseneath in 1926, and five years ago was transferred to similar duties at Jolinsonville. The death is announced of Air AY’. J. Holdswortli, aged 65, after a long illness, an Auckland Press Association message reports. He was man-aging-director of Alessrs AV. J. Holdsworth, Ltd., warehousemen, and had been chairman of the Auckland Power Board since 1922. He was a Rotarian, a local preacher for the Alethodist Church, Auckland president of the British-Israel Association, headquarters commissioner of the Boy Scouts’ Association, Auckland, a member of the Local Government Loans Board, and president of the New Zealand Land Settlement League. Air C. E. Twist, whose death was reported from Napier yesterday, was a well known settler and sportsman. Air Twist apparently had been in excellent health. He was attending to correspondence on AY’ednesday night and it is presumed that he collapsed when rising from his bed. Air Twist was born at Oriental Bay, AY’ellington, and was a son of the late Air and Airs J. Twist. His grandmother was one of the first residents of Oriental Bay. He went to the Hawke’s Bay district more than 53 years ago. In 1901 he married Aliss Christina Alacdonald. Oriental Bay. Air Twist was for many years a buyer for the North British and Hawke’s Bay Freezing Company and later was senior buyer for Borthwick’s at Pakipaki, a position he held for 25 years. Mr Twist was a keen sportsman and racehorse owner who liked to breed and train his own horses.