PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 230, 23 June 1920, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The I'rime Minister was at his office as usual yesterday, having, recovered completely from his slight indisposition of the previous day. Mr. Massey's sick-, ness was nothing worse than a moderately severe cold.

Yesterday was the twenty-first anniversary of the day upon which the Chiet Justice (Sir Robert Stout) first took his seat on the Supreme Court bench.

. On account of the serious illness of his father in Dunedin, Mr. T. Forsyth, chairman of the Wellington Education Board, left for the south last evening.

The death is announce*! of Mr. Ken* noth G. Hoby. second son of Mr. A, Hoby, of the Terrace, Wellington. Mr, Hoby, who had been in ill-health for some time, was on his way to Britain for treatment, and was accompanied by his fnther, but passed away in Boston oil June 12. The deceased had for some time practised as a dentist in Napier, but had relinquished l:is profession owing to, failing With.

Professor J. A. M'Clelland, who died at Dublin, Ireland, in April last, had iust finished his fourth year as examiner in physics for the New Zealand University. and was stnrting upon the papers of the fifth year. The late Mr. M'C elland was Professor of Experimental Physics at University College, Dublin, and was one of the most- -eminent men of science in Ireland. During the war ho did valuable work for the Government as a member of the Inventions .Committee and of the Committee for the Organisation of Industrial Research. He developed at University College, Dublin,- a school of research which has produced results of wide and lasting value. It is most probable that the examiner who will complete the work, left unfinished by the late Mr. M'Clelland will bo Professor- Bragg, of University College, London.

Mr. W. Domb, of tie Native Land Court, has severed liis connection with that branch of the public service in' order to begin business as a land agent at Whakatane. Before leaving ho was presented by the 6taff_ with a gift in token of the esteem in which ho waa held by his colleagues.

Mr. W. H. Earnshaw, who has been associated with the Vacuum Oil Company, Proprietary, Ltd.. for the past •fourteen years, and latterly has wen Wellington manager; lias been appointed manager of Messrs. Goldingham and Beckett, Ltd., Palmerston North.

Information has just come to hand (says the Christchurch "Press") regarding the fate of Mr. W. M. Morrison, an old Christchurch boy, and brother of Mr. A. F. Morrison, of.the School of Engineering, Canterbury College. He hail been missing since December, 1917, and the Federal Line of New York advise that he sailed in the s.a Halifax, which left the Azores during that month and that nothing whatever has since been heard of his steamer or of any of the crew. Before leaving New Zealand Mr. Morrison was in the Railway Department. Ho joined' Australia's first thousand as a private-in the infantry, which went to New Guinea. _ He was an engineer sub-lieutenant in tho Australian Naval Reserve, and was chief engineer of H.M.A.S. Una,''after the capture of that vessel from tho Germans m_ New Guinea, among whom it was previously known as tho Komet. He next joined the 13th Battalion of 4he Australian Fourth Brigade, proceeding to Gallipoli, >s where ho was wounded during the battle of Suvla Bay in August 1915, and after nine months in hospital was discharged. Ho then went back to sea and was an engineer on vessels doing transport work between America,_l;ng land, and Mediterranean ports. Beforo joining the Halifax he sailed in tho , Nicholson aud the Ortovia, both of which were torpedoed.