PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 211, 6 August 1937, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr J. Wallace Smith, dairy factory manager at Massey College, who has been ill for some time; left last evening for Auckland on a two months’ health recruiting holiday. Sir Robert Craigie, Ambassador Designate to Japan, and Lady Craigie have sailed for Canada and America on the way to Tokio, which they hope to reach on September 3.—British Official Wireless.

Mr J. C. Neill, mycologist at the Plant Research Bureau, Palmerston North, left, yesterday on a visit to Australia. Although it i 6 mainly a holiday visit, Mr Neill will take the opportunity of inspecting the various plant research institutions in the Comomnwealth. He is accompanied by Mrs Neill. The fact that Rev. Alexander Greig, of St. Clair, Dunedin, would attain his ninety-ninth birthday next Tuesday was referred to at a meeting of the Dunedin Presbytery this week. It was agreed to send the heartiest greetings of the presbytery to Mr Greig. It is 70 years ago that Mr Greig was ordained minister of the Peninsula. Hon. J. A. Hanan, M.L.C., Chancellor of the University of New Zealand, who has teen visiting Britain and Europe, is returning to the Dominion by way of Canada. He conferred with university representatives in Montreal, Ottawa, and Vancouver, and joined the Niagara for Auckland, where he'is due on August 23.,

According to the Gazette last night the following have been appointed members of the Council of Legal Education : Sir Michael Myere and Mr Justice Ostler, representing the Chief Justice of New Zealand. Messrs P. Levi and A. H. Johnstone, representing the council of the New Zealand Law Society; Professor J. Adamson and Professor R. Macmillan, representing the University Senate.

Appreciation of the services given by Mr W. L. Grice as a member of the executive for a long period was expressed at a meeting of the Feilding brancli of the Farmers’ Union today, when it was reported that, prior to his departure to take up his residence in the Waikato, a presentation had been made to him. Both Messrs H. D. Richardson (chairman) and J. H. Mason eulogised his good work. Mr C. E. Panting, who until recently was organist at St. Matthew’s Church, Auckland, was admitted as a lay-reader at All Saints’, Palmerston North before Evensong on Sunday. July 18, states the All Saints’ Parish Magazine. Mr Panting, who is now a member of the choir, is the New Zealand representative of the School of English Church Music, and has been given permission by the Bishop to speak in any of the churches in the diocese. Mr A. M. Robertson, of Hawke’s Bay, who is retiring from the New Zealand Fruit Export Control Board, was presented with a leather attache case in recognition of his services to the industry at the annual conference of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation, in Wellington, yesterday. The presentation was made by the chairman (Mr H. E. Stephens), who referred appreciatively to Mr Robertson’s services as a member of the board since its establishment eleven years ago. Mr T. C. Brash, president of the federation, also eulogised Mr Robertson’s long and valuable services in the interests of the industry.

A vice-president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and an honorary member of the Academy of Surgery of Paris, Professor G. Grey Turner, M.S., F.R.C.S., England, will pay a brief visit to New Zealand shortly. He is due to reach “Wellington on September 13, and to depart from Auckland on ' September 20. The object of Professor Turner’s tour is to preside at the surgical section of the 4 u6tr.il asian Medical Association conference in Adelaide. He will open the Prince Henry Hospital in Melbourne as a post-gradua.te centre, and deliver lectures before the Australasian College of Surgeons in Melbourne and Sydney.