PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 206, 31 July 1937, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Dr. F. J. Gwynne, of Auckland, left this week for the United States, where he will attend the fifth annual International Congress of Radiology at Chicago. Hon. E. Dye, M.L.C., at a meeting of the Waihi Borough Council, was elected to a seat on the council rendered vacant by the recent resignation of a member.—Press Association. Mr H. Fenwick, headmaster of the Clive School, Hawke’s Bay, and formerly headmaster at Ashhurst, is to leave shortly to take over the headmastership of the South Thames School. Flying-Officer G. R. White, who is attached to Union Airways and has been residing in Palmerston North since the commencement of the Dunedin service, has been transferred to Auckland and will, in future, be connected with the Auckland-Wellington set vice. Last evening he was met by several friends and presented with a case of pipes as a token of esteem.

Mr W. N. Norwood, general manager of Dominion Motors, Ltd., who, with Mrs Norwood, is leaving shortly on a visit to England and America, was entertained by the branch managers of the company nt a dinner at Wellington this week. On behalf of the gathering, J*- W. D. Gordon presented Mr Norwood with a gold dress watch, and expressed the hope that he would have a pleasant and successful trip. The last of the 40th Foot Regiment, which landed in New Zealand in 1860, Mr Enos Holloway, of Morrinsville, reached the age of 100 years to-day. Mr' Holloway has not been beyond his gate for a year or so now, but he is still interested in the affairs of bis district and will talk readily on a variety of subjects. His hearing is perfectly good and, as befits an old soldier, his grip is firm and his back straight, says an exchange. After 43 years in banking, Mr A. E. Sandford, who has been manager df the Hamilton branch of the Union Bank of Australia for the last seven years, will retire on September 14. Mr Sandford will leave by. the Wanganella on September IC with Mrs Sandford for a holiday in' Australia, and on his return he intends to offer his services to the political party which he thinks most likely to serve the country best. Mr Sandford came to New Zealand from a position with the Commercial Bank of Australia in Victoria, and during his 34 years'with the bank lias held positions in Auckland, AVellington, Feifiling, and Hamilton, being branch manager at the last two towns. Mr Sandford will continue to live in Hamilton when he returns from Australia.