PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 256, 13 July 1926, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. Justice Chapman will leave for the north this evening by the Limited express. A Press Association message from Auckland states that Sir John Hosking is Seriously ill in a private hospital there. The Leader of the Opposition, Mr. H. Holland, M.P., returned to Wellington from the north yesterday. The Rev. Robert Francis, Presbyterian minister at Bluff, and formerly of Cast, Canterbury, and Opotiki, died on Saturday after a brief illness, states a Press' Association message. He was 64 years of age, and is survived by a widow and grown-up family. A Press Association message from Christchurch announces the death of Mr. David Lumsden, aged 79, after 52 years’ service in the newsrooms of the “Lyttelton Times” and Christchurch “Star” The late Mr. Lumsden was born at Invercargill. Mr. T. W. Raplev, formerly general manager for New Zealand of the Australian Provincial Assurance Society, has been appointed to the position of managing director of that society (states the “Otago Daily Times”). Mr. Raplev’s first position was with the Post and Telegraph Department in Wellington, and later he joined other Government Departments. He served with the Equitable Assurance Society of the United States as district manager for Taranaki and Hawke’s Bay, and when that society ceased operations in New Zealand he' became a district manager for the National Mutual Life Association of Australasia In 1918 he joined the Australian Provincial Assurance Association as general manager for the South Island. Mr. Henrv R. Smith, who was Town ■ Clerk of Christchurch for 22 years, died last week, aged 70 years. Born at Doncaster, England, he was educated at the Doncaster Grammar School, and then entered the engineering profession. He came to New Zealand in 1880, and was employed on the West Coast. Two years later he was appointed clerk of the Town Board of Linwood. When the position of Town Clerk for Christchurch became vacant in 1901, Mr Smith was appointed, and for over years he held the office of lown Clerk 'and city treasurer. Mr. W. B. Brown has been appointed head-teacher at Roseneath School, and Mr. D. E. Forsyth head-teacher at Tokomaru School. Mr F. I. G. Fleming lias been appointed assistant at Grcvtown School; Mr. G. B. Pritchard assistant at Hutt School. Mr. E. J. Stanlev lias been appointed sole teacher at Kohiku School. Notification has been received that the Education Department has approved the appointment of Mr. Eric Cousins, M.A., as mathematical and science master at the Technical College. Mr. Cousins was educated at Auckland Grammar School and at Auckland and Victoria University Colleges, where, he took botanv, chemistry, mathematics, education, and English as degree subjects He is at present on the staff at Clvde Ouav School, and is instructor in botany'in the evening school of the Technical College. l\lr R. de R. Worker, the well-known Otago and New Zealand representative cricketer, will leave for Napier shortly-, having accepted a position on the staff of the Bovs’ School there, states a Press Association telegram from Dunedin.

Mr. Nolan, New Zealand manager of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, has been appointed to the directorate. He has been succeeded by Mr. H. D. Robertson, the Auckland manager.—Press Assn. The Rev. David Calder, 8.A., New Zealand secretary for the British and Foreign Bible Society, who has been laid aside by serious illness for some weeks, is now making satisfactory progress towards recovery, and hopes to resume duties next month.