PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 31, 31 October 1929, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICE-REGAL. His Excellency the Governor-General (Sir Charles Fergusson) will be the chief guest and speaker at a luncheon to be tendered in his honour by the New Zealand Club to-morrow. Sir Alexander Herdman will arrive in Wellington from Auckland this morning to attend an investiture at Government House.

Commander C. E. Hotham, D.S.C., R.N., will arrive at Auckland by the Rangitiki to-morrow from England. Captain A. H. Prosser, was a passenger on the Limited express to Auckland last night. Mr. W. J. McCulloch, farm manager at Massey College, has been appointed superintendent of the Fields Division of the Department of Agriculture, to fill the vacancy created by the promotion of Mr. J. W. Deem to the directorship (states a Press Association telegram from Palmerston North. z.

Mr. H. S.‘Cantrell, of the Bank of New Zealand staff, Dunedin, who has received advice of his promotion to the position of accountant at the Apia (Samoa) branch of the bank, will be a passenger on the Tofua, leaving Auckland on Saturday. Mr. J. O. Christmas, of the Native Department, Samoa, was a passenger to Auckland this week by the Tofua, Lieut.-Colonel E. Turton, an experienced English angler and deep-sea fisherman, came to Auckland by the Tofua this week. He intends, to spend five months in the Dominion before returning to London. Mr. H. J. Jones, manager of the Yaitele Plantations, owned by New Zealand Reparations Estate, Samoa, arrived at Auckland by the Tofua this week.

Mr. H. G. Pilling, a former assistant to the High Commissioner to the Western Pacific, arrived at Auckland from the Islands this week. He is en route for British Honduras, where he will hold the post of Colonial Secretary.

The death occurred at Christchurch yesterday of Thomas Walter Cane, lecturer in English at Canterbury College, who had been suffering from an incurable illness for nine months (states a Press Association message). He was for sixteen years English master at the Boys’ High School, and was appointed to the lectureship in 1911.

Mr. H. G. Scott, formerly general manager of the Siamese Tin Syndicate, and now a director of the company, arrived at Auckland from Sydney by the Ulimaroa this week. He is to investigate the possibilities of dredging in New Zealand, as he has been doing in Australia and Tasmania.

Hutt Railway employees assembled the other day to bid farewell to Mr. W. H. Edwards, who, after 36 years, retired from the service on superannuation, and has gone to Sydney with his wife and son. 1 Eulogistic 1 references were made to the work done by Mr. Edwards during his term as secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, and of the Tradesmen’s Association, and be was presented with a handsome leather travelling case and a handbag for Mrs. Edwards. The flag at the Harbour Board offices was flown at half-mast as a token of respect to the late Mr. Charles Gell, engineer at the power station, who succumbed early yesterday morning. The deceased, who was 59 years of age, had been employed with the board during the past twenty years. He had been ailing for some time prior to his death. Many friends attended the funeral of the late Mr. Randall Thomas Huffam at Karori Cemetery on Sunday afternoon. Mr. Huffam gave of his best in several spheres of church and Sunday school work, being an old scholar of Wesley Sunday School, Taranaki Street, and an untiring teacher on the Staff of the Aro Street Methodist Mission Sunday School. He was prominent in Sunday School Union activities and a member of the A.O.F. Lodge Court Sir George Bowen. The Rev. T. R. Richards officiated .at. the funeral services. The death occurred at Dunedin, from a heart seizure yesterday afternoon, of Mr. R. W. Hall, Mayor of St. Kilda. at the age of 50 years (states a Special Service message). He was well known in connection with local body politics and also took a keen interest in the Prohibition movement, being president of the Otago Branch of the Temperance Reform Council. At the general election in November last he stood as Labour candidate against the Hon. W. B. Taverner (United), and Mr. C. Todd (Reform), and though he topped the list on the night of the election, he was defeated by 33 votes by Mr. Taverner on the final count. The appointment of (Miss Agnes 'N. Loudon, senior assistant at the Otago Girls’ High School, as headmistress of the Epsom Girls’ Grammar School was made at a special meeting of the Auckland Grammar School Board yesterday (states a Special Service message). The present mistress, Miss A. C. Morrison, will retire at the end of the year, and Miss Loudon will assume her new duties in February. A total of 12 applications was considered by the board, some of these being from Australia.