PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 153, 29 June 1914, Page 7

PERSONAL.

~ • J Mr. F. Prror returned to Auckland j i '..is! nigh: by ilx- Manuka, after npend-: in;: .1 holiday in Sydney nnd Melbourne. Mr, A. P>. ■'■ Irvine, manager of the Ol'nion Company at Auckland, returned from Australia by the Manuka last ; | night. i Mr. A. M. Myers. M.P.. left for Wel- , lington la.-t evening. Mr. A .K. tllover. ' | M.P.. will leave by ihis evening's i express. . | Tii" death is announce! 'from Cam- .' bridge of Mrs. (!. P>. Simpsvm. a highly -I rr,--po. te.i- resident in lire AVaikato for • I many years. I Mr. 11. Xeven. manager for Misch.i Elninu. i ho violinist, arr-vvd here from Wellington yesterday, lie returus. .' So,,i'i to-morrow. . ] Mr. C. J. Parr. CM.fi. Mayor rj . j Aucklan !. •■•'ii r> lias been mi a holiday r'. visit to Australia, was a passenger by i tiie Sydney boat owning. I Dr. A. Brewis. of llamiton. was a passenger by the Manuka last ovenirg. He j has been on a holiday trip, which in-' | chilled a to Australia and .lava. . I Mr. Wesley Spragg returned to AucJ:----i'lan-.l yesterday from Wellington, wbnre ijhe has boon attending the annual onn- • fetv-.tce of the .Xew Zealand Alliance. 11 Mr. William Whitfield, a'Bank's ftminI siila pioneer, din!- las: week, agort TO. "II" was- born in Bristol in 1835. and- was 'in the Navy at the time of the (nmran II war. Mr. I. P. Wikon. who for many years •j was clerk ami interpreter to Judge llol'i bind, has been appointed registrar of the Tukcrau Native Land Board. The j Board has jurisdiction over the North . ' Auckland district, aud ias headquarters , I are at Auckland. . Mr. V. White, of the "'Dominion,'" and ,JMr. T. Lindeay llub-k (Press Assoc iar - jtion). have been elected respectively -I chairman and vice-chairman of the Part j liamentary Press Gallery, Wellington. -j .Mr. .Tohn Wickliffo, of Ellfsra-ere. ' Canterbury, who died last week, had reached tlie advanced, age of R2. He ] w.is a well-known farmer, and was ¥. prominent member of the Presbytcriar a . I Church. i The Yon. Archdeacon Caldfir. 'who , .ame ba.-k to Auckland la=t nigW. by ■ ■the iManuka from Sydney, has been spending a holiday in Tonga ami J.amoa, " .for the benefit ol" bis health, -j-lv.-l, has I improved considerably. ! Among the officers of the. Territorial ' force who are retiring to tbr-j -reserve ot ' : officers arc Colonel R. ■). Co',Fins. C.M.0.. " | from the general list, aud Major K. <_'. ' | Kirk. from the garris/vn artillery. Colonel Collins has a record of fortyI five .tears' service with tl_« volunteer aud 1 j Territorial forces. [ i To mark tli-eir appreciation of tho , 'efforts of-Mr. Richards />n. chief inspeci/ir 5 of ;!>c Otago Educate .m Board's staff, in , I connection with the s/■■curing of the besie- . I His of tlie stiporair/ualion sdi-?me for i certain tea-oliers, a. number of the ; teachers undtrr the Board made him and t I Mrs. Richardson Ifltidsomp presentations j lost we-?k. i I Mr. AY. R- I'yCorris. the secretary ot 3 ; the Post and Telegraph Department, is cI to be cntert by the Telegraph 1 I Officers' Ass'jciation in Wellington this I ] evening. C/n Friday nest Mr. Morris s 1 will leave "by the Vancouver boat, en o I route to Madrid, where he will represent v New Zea'And at the International Postal i Confei'o'.<?e. 0 Mr. I). R. C'lough. superintendent ol " ' the Y«.M.C'.A. residential quarters, was 1 I presented with a puree of sovereign; iby /Vsidents and staff last night prim |to "his departure for England. Th< jg'iiernl secretary (Mr. J. B. McKiniirT) "'in making the pre.senta.tion, spoke in | warm term* of appreciation of all thai '' (Mr. and Mrs. dough had done foi r 'l members and staff. He wished then: n land their two boys all prosperity in the • I Homeland, from which they had ori j ginally come. Represenijatj?ve& of th< (Ivarious divisions o; "iiALGA. worli ie I spoke of the popularity of the Clougl ;e i family, and '.vi&hed th&m God speed j; Presentations were also -made to each o! ?r, the other members of the family, wht ■h i leave by t!i» Mamtka, this evening foi \Sydney, cv route ici-England.