PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 52, 24 November 1928, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

Major-General Sir Frederick Sykes, Governor-designate of Bombay, and Lady Sykes, have left England for India. Sir Frederick will take over the post from the retiring Governor, Colonel Leslie Wilson, on December 8, states a British official wireless message.

Mr. T. L. Darby, clerk in the Chief Post Office, Wellington, has been promoted to the position of assistant supervisor of the stamps, delivery, and registration branch in the Dunedin Post Office. Mr. G. F. Jackson, assistant supervisor of the money order and savings bank branch, Wellington Post Office, has been promoted to the position of supervisor of the same department in the Dunedin Post Office.

Captain W. J. Wade, representative at Sydney for the Manchester Ship Canal Company, is at present visiting Dunedin.

The appointment of Mr. Justice Frazer as a Judge of the Supreme. Court, “to hold office during pleasure,” has been gazetted. Colonel H. R. Potter, C.M.G., officer commanding the Northern Command, has returned to Auckland from Wellington. The Earl and Countess of Liverpool are coming to New Zealand in the Remuera, which was to leave London yesterday (states an Australian Press Association-United Service message from London). Mr. W. Russell-Wood, of Auckland, has been appointed adjudicator iu the elocutionary and oratory-debating sections by the Christchurch Competitions Society for their festival in May next

Mr. F. P. Hanna, of the New Zealand inspectors’ staff of the Bank of Australasia, has been appointed a subinspector of the Bank with headquarters in Melbourne and will leave here early in December. Mr. J. M. Samson, of Dunedin, who has the distinction of owning probably the largest string of racehor. ;-s in New Zealand, will leave on a visit to England and America in April next, and may remain away for about 12 months. In consequence (states a Special Service message) Mr. Samson Intends before his departure to sell all his horses, gallopers as well as pacers. As showing the extent to which Mr. Samson supports the Turf, it is stated that he has on occasions had as many as 30 horses in training at one time. Captain Charles Mac Lean, who died in a private hospital in Melbourne on November 13, was well known in Australian shipping circles. After' service with the Union Steamship Company for nearly 20 years during which he rose from the rank of junior officer to the command of several of the company’s vessels, including that of the steamer Maitai, he joined the firm of Burns, Philp and Company, in which he held master’s rank, and was for a time in command of the steamer Mataram. Six years ago he was offered the position of supervisor of stevedores with the Victorian Stevedoring Company, Ltd., and it was while on duty with this company that he had the accident which resulted in his death. Recently he slipped from the gangway of the steamer City of Birmingham, berthed in Victoria Dock, and fell 14ft. to the wharf. His condition was improving when pneumonia developed. Captain Mac Lean leaves a widow, a son and a daughter. He was aged 55 years.

The Rev. W. S. Rollings, who will resign his charge'of the Brooklyn Baptist Church in January, after a pastorate of twelve and a half years, was born in Victoria. He was trained for the ministry in the Baptist College of Victoria, and Queen’s College, Melbourne, and graduated in 1900. After a pastorate of five years in Salo (Gippsland) he accepted a call to the Goodwood Church, Adelaide. While in South Australia he was editor of the denominational paper, and in 1910-11 was elected president of the Baptist Union of that State. In 1913 Mr. Rollings came to New Zealand, and since 1916 has resided in Brooklyn. During this period he has taken a leading part in the work of the Baptist Union, serving as president in 1922-23, and for two periods acting as secretary. He has also identified himself with public affairs. Mrs. Rollings, who before her marriage was matron of the Gippsland Hospital, Victoria, has been actively associated with her husband in his public work.