PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 230, 23 June 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Public Works (the Hon. J. G. Coates) left for the Kawhia and Raglan districts last night. He is due back in Wellington on Monday next. The Mayor of Waipukurau, Mr. E. A. Goodger, and the town clerk, Mr. G. E. Fowler, are at present in Wellington on municipal business. Mr. J. V. Wilson, M.A., a former student of the Christchurch Boys' High School and graduate of Canterbury College. has won yet another success in his brilliant career’ at Cambridge University. Notification has just been received that he has been awarded the Person Prine. This prize, established in honour of the famous classical scholar, Person, is awarded for excellence in Greek verse composition. Mr. Wilson, who was an officer in the 2nd Battalion Canterbury Regiment. is a holder of a N.Z.E.F. Scholarship at Trinity College. In addition to college prizes, Mr. Wilson has won a college scholarship, a first-class in Part I, Classical Tripos, and the Craven Scholarship. The death occurred at Carterton on Tuesday of Mr. Alexander Hughan, one of the earliest settlers of the Wairarapa district. Deceased, who was eighty-five years of age, was born at Kirkcudbright. Scotland, and came out to Victoria with hie parents when an infant. Later they came to Now Zealand, and settled in Otago. The deceased was one of the pioneers of the sawmilling industry in the Wellington province, and for a period had a sawmill at Upper Hutt. A widow and family of two sons and ten daughters are left. While nothing is quite settled, an exchange of districts is in contemplation between Mr. Justice Herdman and Mr. Justice Adams, the former going to Auckland and the latter to Christchurch. The exchange, if the arrangement should bo fixed, will not take plaoo for some little time to come. — Lyttelton “Times." Mr. J. M. A. Hott has returned to Wallington after a three months’ business trip to New South Wales.