PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 247, 13 July 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

A Press Association cable message from London states that Mr. Massey has been offered the Freedom of Bath and Darlington.

At yesterday’s conference of trotting clubs it was decided to forward congratulations to Sir George Hunter, M.P.. who was recently knighted. Various speakers referred to Sir George Hunter’s good qualities, and mentioned that it was pleasing to see that sport turned out men worthy' of sucli high honours. A cable message received in Wellington yesterday records the death at Sydney, after a short illness, of Mr. Robert Wilson, well' known in connection with the Rhodes Estate, Heaton Park, near Marton, which he managed tor over 40 years.

Mr. F. H. Brittain, inspector of stock at Auckland, has retired from the Department of Agriculture after a service of 30 years. At a gathering of officers of the Department, Mr. J. Lyons, district superintendent, on behalf of the subscribers, presented Mr. Brittain with a gold albert and pendant, and Mrs. Brittain with a manicure set. Mr. Lyons said that Mr. Brittain had been a highly capable and zealous officer, who would be much missed in official circles. At last night’s meeting of the Wellington Presbytery tho Rev. W. Sliirer resigned the position of clerk of presbytery. His resignation was accepted with regret, and presbytery directed that its appreciation of Mr. Shirer’s services during tho past 31 years should bo recorded. The Rev. R. Inglis. M.A., was appointed to succeed Mr. Shiver.

“Since we last assembled,” remarked the president (Mr. John Rowe) at yesterday’s conference of New Zealand trotting clubs, “there have passed away, amongst other well-known sportsmen, three whose deaths we have to deplore. Manyers Burton Edwards, who was one of Ciinteibury’s early band of owner-trainers, was an active participator in the sport for 34 years. He was recognised as an exceedingly skilful handler of straight-out trotters, and his name will always be associated with some of New Zealand’s most famous winners. Mr. C. S. Howell had reached his 87th year, and up to the last was president of the Canterbury Park Trotting Club. He was a member of the original New Zealand I rotting Association, and when the present trative body was formed he ' vears of valuable service to it. He was convener of the Trotting Conference ni Wellington in 1895. and acted as its chairman Another ro ? - Z l was also one of ‘the promoters of the original Trotting k c ® 6 . was at one time president of the old Can terbury Trotting Club am a of its committee until it joined the - Zealand Metropolitan Club, in Ivhlcl ’ „ held important offices until his death. News has been received from Christchurch of the death of Mr. A. J. Wintie, proprietor of the MrSvtotte facturing Company. The late Mr. intio was born in Ross, and was 48 years of age- His fam ly -aero owners of a mill in Ross for met -09 yeara Deceased resided in the Dominion for about 18 years, and was in business in Wellington 'and Christchurch as a land agent until he acquired the Gerstena works a. few years ago. His charity was wide and his benefactions were not limited ’to any particular class. He was a member of the Civic Lodge of I'reemasons and the Christchurch Bowling Club and was known os a man of upright and sterling character Death was due to a second seizure following a stroke two weeks earlier. Me is sumived by a widow, but had no family. The Wellington Diocesan Synod yesterday passed a resolution recording its appreciation of the services of the lato Mr. John Martin, of Martinborough, and asking the president to assure Mrs. Martin of g its sympathy with her in her bereavement.

On Thursday last. July 7. there passed away at his residence, Epsom, an old and respected pioneer m the P clßon Air. Janies Lloyd Mandeno He was born at Shropshire, England, in 1834, mu! educated at Latin Grammar School. Newport and at JlollWay, near London. serving his apprenticeship in the building trade at Bedford, he sal i with his parents for ’ and riving in Auckland in. thu 3 nt partiripated in the shrnng emits at that time owing to the Al non AA . successfully carried out many buildin„ Contracts? and followed the pro ession of architect. Mr. Mandeno went t° Awamutu in 1873, carrying on his Hadand profession for many years.