Personal Items.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16847, 29 May 1920, Page 8

Personal Items.

Mr F. J. Rollcston has been elected chairman of the Timaru Harbour Board for the ninth consecutive term.

£ D. M. Haszard, Commissioner of Crown Lands, and officers of the Lands and Survey Department, Icavo for Timaru on Monday, to nttend a meeting of the Land Board tho following day, at which applicants for sections in tho Bankfield and Lambrook settlements will be examined; tho ballots will follow.

The employees of Booth, Macdonnld, StT 0- ' yesterday farewelled Mr ?-..j° rr y» u 'h° is taking an extended holiday on account of bad health and intends visiting England shortly. ' Th e foremr.n of tho patternmakers' shop Mr J. Paterson, on behalf of his workers, handed to Mr Derry a beautiful Ivaiapoi rug, as n token of the esteem in which ho is held. Mr Derry briefly responded, and was accorded three cheers.

Mr "William Fortescue. of Picton celebrated his 103 rd birthdny on Monday last. He was tho recipient of many felicitations on the record achieved, and upon being in such an excellent condition of health. Jlr Fortescue arrived in New Zealand in ISIO, landing at Petone, whero he acted as storekeeper for the New Z ; *.nland Land Company. Later on ho went to Marlborough, arriving just after the Wairau massacre He joined the throng at Gabriel's Cully at tho timo of the rush, and followed the golden vein, particularly at Mahakipawa, until recent years'. Upon beinn presented to 11.R.11. tho Princo of \\ ales at Picton recently, the lively old man remarked: "Yes. T* remember "your father, your grandfather, and vour s;reat-grandfathor, too : and I also lived in the reign of George 111. M