PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 5, 1 October 1929, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir James Allen is visiting Christchurch.

Major W. E. S. Furby has been raised to the position of Metropolitan Commissioner of Boy Scouts for Canterbury. The same title is held by the Commissioners in Auckland and Wellington, as each has twenty or more troops under his command. The Christchurch Commissioner’s district has been enlarged by the inclusion of Ashburton and Methven.

Brigadier H. R. Potter, commandant of the Northern Command, who has been ill for some months, is now progressing satisfactorily. He has been attending at the Defence Office for a few hours daily. Mr. E. O. Thornton, president of the Miramar Progressive Association, was last night unanimously elected president of the Eastern Suburbs League for the ensuing year. Mr. Thornton succeeds Mr. A. C. Blake, who intimated that he could not accept re-elec-tion owing to the amount of other work he had to attend to. It was decided to place on record the services which had been rendered to the league by Mr. Blake as president since its inception.

The Education Department has approved the appointment of Mr. W. L. S. Britton, assistant master at the Brooklyn School, as English and mathematics master in the Wellington Technical College. Mr. Britton holds the degree of 8.A., and the Diploma of Education. He has had 12J years' teaching experience, and has coached in cricket, football, swimming, life-sav-ing, hockey, and tennis. He has also assisted in dramatic work.

Judge C. E. MacCormick, of the Native Land Court, returned to Wellington by the Limited express yesterday. Commissioner James Hay, of the Salvation Army, will arrive back from the South this morning. He and Mrs. Hay are to leave for Canada towards the end of the month.

Mr. W. Waddel, Superintendent of State Advances, will leave by this morning's Limited express for the north.

Hearty appreciation was expressed last night by the Eastern Suburbs League of the services rendered over a long period of years by Mr. A. G. Jorgenson. The death occurred at Greymouth on Saturday of Captain Percy Clunies Ross, Union Company wharfinger at that port. The late Captain Ross suffered from pernicious anaemia, and had been on sick leave for some time before his death. Born at Hobart, Tasmania, on December 2S, 1873, Captain Ross first joined the Union Company as fourth officer of the W’aikane in January, 1901, his first command being the steamer Squall, to which he was appointed in February, 1909. He later commanded the Flora, Haupiri, Hauroto,. Navua, and Talune. In April, 1914, he was appointed the company’s wharfinger at Dunedin, and later to the same position at Greymouth, which position he held until his death. Captain Ross was well kniiwn in New Zealand shipping circles, and leaves a widow and one adopted son. Dr. H. S. Billcliff, who has been absent from New Zealand for the past two years, will take over his duties as superintendent of the Ashburton Hospital to-day. The death occurred suddenly at Eastbourne, on Sunday, of Mr. Clifford James Flewellyn, a single man, 41 years of age. Mr. Flewellyn, who was employed by Mr. A. E. Kitchen, chemist, of Wangantii, came to Wellington on Saturday on a visit to his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Pollock, of Eastbourne. He was well known in football and boxing circles some years ago. He was a member of the Seventh Reinforcement of the N.Z.E.F., serving as a tunneller in Egypt and France. .. Dr. G. F. Rich, of Havelock North, who recently passed the examination for the F.R.C.S., Edinburgh, has returned from post-graduate study ,of surgery in Great Britain, and has left for New Plymouth, where he is to relieve Dr. Clarke, medical superintendent of the New Plymouth Hospital. Dr. Clarke will leave shortly for England for further post-graduate study.