PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 75, 21 December 1928, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Education (Hon. H. Atmore) is visiting Nelson. He will probably return to Wellington after the holidays. Sir George Elliot will leave Wellington for Auckland to-day. . The Hon. W. D. .Stewart intends to spend two months m Rotorua. The Mayor (Mr. G. A. Troup) has left for the north, with the intention of spending the Christmas and New Year holidays in the Rotorua-Taupo district.

Viscount Hampden has arrived in Christchurch from Dunedin. Later he will proceed to Wellington, Rotorua, and Auckland, and will leave for England early in February. Lieutenant-Colonel G. C. Stubbs, D. 5.0., Assistant Comu’X.idant of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, Australia, arrived from Sydney by the Marama. With him is Captain C. A. Osborne, instructor in tactics at Duntroon. They are on a holiday in the Dominion.

Mr. A. E. Young, of Australia, who recently won the high jump at the Cambridge senior sports, is the son of Mr. Frank Young, formerly of Wellington, now residing in Adelaide. He is also a grandson of the late Mr. Andrew Young, one of New Zealand’s early pioneers. Mr. Young has been for a year at Cambridge, where he is studying architecture.

Mr. Julian Foster, American Trade Commissioner, leaves on a trip to America in February next. He will probably be absent for about six mouths.

Mr. E. Jenner, of the Wellington Training College staff, has received news from London that he has been elected an associate of the Royal Academy of Music. Mr. Jenner is in charge of the musical education of the students at the college. The Rev. Father Mahoney left for Sydney by the Maunganui yesterday. The death is announced by a Press Association message from Sydney of the Rev. Adin Parsons, at the age of 85 years, the oldest minister in point of service in the Methodist Church of New South Wales.

Mr. A. D. Carson is expected to return to New Zealand by the Aorangi on December 31, after an extensive tour of England and the United States. Mr. C. J. Ronaldson, who has retired from the position of manager of the National Bank in Christchurch, was met by clients of the bank yesterday, states a Press Association, message, and presented with a mahogany desk and a wallet containing a cheque for £3OO. Mr. Ronaldson joined the bank at Milton. Later he moved to Dunedin, and in 1898 was appointed manager at Invercargill. He remained there until 1917, when he was transferred to Christchurch as manager. Mr. Alfred Wyness, of E. J, Hyams, Ltd., who will leave next week for England on a business and holiday tour, was the guest of the Wellington gramophone dealers at 'afternoon tea on Wednesday. On behalf of the dealers, Mr. Ernest Dawson presented Mr. Wyness with a travelling rug, and representatives of the different firms also wished him a pleasant trip. Good wishes on behalf of the firm were expressed by Mr. E. J. Hyams.

Mr. A. C. Caughey, head of the Auckland firm of Smith and Caughey, drapers, Who died on Tuesday, was 79 years of age. Born at Fortaferry, County Down, Ireland, Mr. Caughey was for five years apprenticed to the firm of James Lindsay and Co., of Belfast. At the age of 21 he went to London, where he obtained an appointment in a firm in Westbourne Grove. After occupying further positions in the South of Ireland, Liverpool, and Belfast, Mr. Caughey migrated to Auckland. Mr. W. H. Smith, a brother-in-law, in 1880, also decided to come to New Zealand, and the following year the firm of Smith and Caughey was started in a small way in a shop at the corner of Upper Queen Street. In his younger days Mr. Caughey was an enthusiastic volunteer, and in 1898 enrolled amongst the employees of the firm a corps, known as the Auckland Rifles, of which he was appointed captain. He was a member of the Board of Governors of Prince Albert College, and served on the Mount Albert Road Board as well as on the school committee of that district. He was for a number of years president of the Auckland Y.M.C.A, Mr. Caughey is survived by his widow and the following children:—Messrs. Marsden, Patrick, Leonard, Stewart, and John Caughey, and Mrs. Hugh Blackwell, of Kaiapoi. Professor Riddet, of the Massey Agricultural College staff, Palmerston North, arrived in Auckland on Wednesday. Mr. .J. B. Henry, manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Auckland, entered a private hospital for treatment on Sunday last.

At the Wellington Gas Company’s offices yesterday afternoon a presentation Was made to Mr. A. M. Taylor, chief inspector, who is leaving the company’s employment at the end of the current year, after 14 years’ service, to take up bis duties as engineer and manager of the Timaru Gas Company, Ltd. The presentation took the form of a testimonial and a cheque from the directors of the company, and a prince and duchess rug to Mr. Taylor and his wife from the employees. Mr. M. J. Kennedy, general manager, presented the former, and Mr. J. T. Hungerford the latter. After the heads of the various departments, and Miss Scott representing the ladies, had spokeen in eulogistic terms of Mr. Taylor’s kindly disposition and sterling ability, Mr. Taylor, on behalf of Sirs. Taylor and himself, suitably replied. The gathering ended with the singing of “For They Are Jolly Good Fellows” and "Auld Lang Syne.” Mr. Taylor and family expect to leave Wellington for their new abode to-day week.