PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 210, 5 August 1937, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr W. S. Carter is at present on a health recruiting trip to Honolulu, and at to-day’s meeting of the Manawatu-Oroua River Board he was granted three.months’ leave of absence, the hope being expressed that he would enjoy a quick recovery.

Mr G. McNamara, Director-General of the Post and Telegraph Department, who represented New Zealand at the Imperial Cable Conference in London, is a passanger in the Mataroa, which is due to arrive at Auckland on Thursday of next week.

A Hamilton correspondent, who is a frequent visitor to the Waikato Hospital, writes to say that the Palmerston North friends of Mr Harry Knowles and Miss Paynter, of Palmerston North, who were involved in a serious motor accident some five months ago, will be interested to learn of their progress. Mr Knowles, who was a popular member of the Palmerston North Fire Brigade staff, suffered the amputation of a leg and after undergoing his' third operation last week is now making good progress. The friends of Miss Paynter, Mr Knowles’s fiancee, will regret to learn that she is to undergo a further operation. Miss Paynter was a Manawatu representative hockey player. The Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, will leave Wellington for Auckland next Thursday night to meet the Minister of Finance and Marketing. Hon. W. Nash, on his arrival from abroad the following day. The Mataroa, by which Mr Nash is returning to New Zealand, was originally expected to .reach Auckland on the Thursday, but advice was received in Wellington yesterday that the ship would not arrive until Friday. Mr Nash will be accorded a civic reception by the Auckland City Council on the Friday night. Mr Savage will return to Wellington from Auckland by the Limited express on the Sunday night (August 15), but Mr Nash’s arrangements are at present indefinite.

Among the visitors to the annual conference of the New Zealand Dairy Research Association, now being held at the Dairy Research Institute, there are Messrs G. M. Valentine, AssistantDirector of the Dairy Division, M. H. Wallace and E. Beatson, members of the Dairy Division of the Department of Agriculture, and Dr. W. J. Wiley, of Australia, who is a research officer attached to the Council of Scientifiic and Industrial Research in Australia. He is visiting New Zealand to secure information of the research operations here which may be applied to work being done in Australia. Of those attending from various parts of New Zealand, one is Mr J. Vinten, Midhirst, Taranaki. The death has occurred at Whangarei of Mr William Percival Delamore, a well-known personality of that town. He was born at Rangitikei in 1864. With his parents he moved to Kakaramea, Taranaki, where he was engaged in farming. He later went to Normanby, where he spent several years in business and farming. Twenty-five years ago he purchased a property at Whatitiri, later retiring to Mains Avenue, Whangarei. He was a prominent bowler, and until two years ago was the Superintendent of the Whangarei Club. He is survived by his widow, two brothers, Mr Frank Delamore (Melbourne) and Mr F. C. Delamore, (Mount Eden), and one one sister, Mrs Armstrong (Hawera). ; The Bishop of Wellington (Rt. Rev. H. St. B. Holland) announced yesterday that Rev. Gordon Melville McKenzie, 8.A., acting vicar of St. Paul’s, Wellington, has been appointed vicar of St. Michael and All Angels’ parish, Kelburn. Mr McKenzie, who belongs to a well-known North Canterbury family, was born at Rangiora, took a course at the Teachers’ Training College, and later taught at the Greymouth and the West Christchurch District High Schools. He holds the degree of 8.A., New Zealand. He left the teaching profession' temporarily and took a position with the Young Men’s Christian Association, Christchurch, being in charge of the boys’ department. At the beginning of 1927 he was appointed first assistant and resident master at the Cathedral Grammar School, where he remained until his ordination in 1931. He was particularly interested in swimming and lifehaving. He then went to Wellington as curate at St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral, and later was appointed vicar of Taihape. Mr McKenzie was for .some years Dominion secretary of Toe H, and chairman of the New Zealand Student Christian Movement. In January, 1935, Mr McKenzie was appointed headmaster of the Cathedral Grammar School, Christchurch, a.nd held that appointment until the end of last year, when lie : took up his present position at St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Wellington. I