PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 33, 8 August 1919, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. ,G. D. Greenwood is leaving for Melbourne by the Port Nicholson to-day.

Dr. Valintine left for Sydney yester day by tlie steamer Prinzessih. / . .- ■'■

Mr. Paul Curtis, of .Napier, has resigned his appointment as a (Justice of the Peace. .■' .: ■ .-■, •■'■

Mr. 'Arthur Cookson, headmaster of Lincoln District High School,:, died on Tuesday, aged 55. "He was a prominent Mason'and a talented musician.

Mr. David. Jones, who erected some of the principal'public buildings in Whangaroi and took an active part in local affairs there, is dead; aged 79. . ' •. ■ ■'. "

Lieutenant-Colonel F. Symon, C.M.G., D.5.0., R.N.Z.A., has been appointed artillery staff' officer for the Canterbury military district. . .. ...

Mr.. J. Ruddell, of the Plasterers' Union, has been elected president of the Wellington Trades and Labour Council, vice Mr. M. J. Reardon. . ./ ;

Private advice has been received of the death of Captain. Winstbne Ingham,, late of the English forces, from throat trouble following on influenza. His widow resides in Wellington. , '..'.' i : •

Mr. J. Milne, who'was connected with the of the Wahganui Education district as Inspector for over 20 years, and recently retired, was the recipient of a smoker's outfit from the staff of the board. - ■• „ ' -' .; x

Messrs/, Crawford i and Adams/ from Nelson and Christchurch ■ respectively, who have been appointed Inspectors .of .Schools.'-in i the - Wanganui Education Board's.. district, :have taken : up'their hew;1 duties.,' '■':',','. .'■. '■[■ -....-,. !*!'.'

Lieutenant T. J. C. Hislop, formerly a member; of the Wellington City Coun cil (son of the Hon. T.,W.. Hislop), is still '.under treatment for the wound in his leg, .received while he ■ was on active service, but has been able to; resume his legal work. ;, ; ■■ .•. - :. ...

There was a large, attendance at' the funeral at Otaki yesterday Of th© late Mr. Wilfred Cleland/son of Mrs. J. M. Cleland, :of Tinakori-rpad; The Rev. G. F. Petrie, M.A., of All Saints' Church, Otaki, conducted the service, assisted by the Rev.; J. Edwin Jones, Vicar of Wadestpwn, formerly of Otaki.

Miss Evelyn May Rapley has been appointed - deputy-registrar of births deaths, and, marriages for .Wellington North;' Miss Annie G. Cooksey for l'aparoa; Mr. Gladstone Wilson for Ormoridville; and Mr. John T. Martin for Cartertori,. > •'.■■■ ;■■•■. ' ' • .- :'■'■ :/\

.Mr. A. E, Hobbs, who has been for some years in charge of the merchandise; department; of the Auckland branch of Dalgety's, Ltd., has been appointed manager, at Wellington for Messrs. Abraham ,and Williams, Ltd: /

. News has. been received in Welling-/ ton.that Captain S. Natusch, M.C., who1 was recently .awarded a New 'Zealand., ■Expeditionary FoTce Architectural •Scho-. larship, has "passed the .• asso'ciateship: examination of the Royal Instituts of Brit,ish. Architects., :. . ■ ' '■,''■ ' ,'■'

The death took place, at, Tikorangi (North Taranoki)'.. on Tuesday of ?Mr. George Jiipp, who was in his 91st year. He served f in the Maori War, and had resided ever since at Tikorangi. He leaves a family,-of three sons and. five daughters. . ■.',' ,;. : / -,'■.■■" ../.;' .. ;■ ' Dr. Adam Wyld Pairman, foimerly of. To Awamutu, died at the Auckland Hospitalon' Saturday' last . from' cerebral hemorrhage following on apoplexy, at tho age "of .65. Dr. Pairman was boi-n at Biggar, Lanarkshire,1 Scotland, and went to South Africa in'lßß9., After practising his profession at Pretoria' hrj came to New Zealand in 1892 and took up his residence at Te Awamutu. . .. . . ..

Mr. Robert Martin Wallis, who died in' Auckland on Monday, aged 76, was the son of,one of New Zealand's earliest settlers, ..the late Rev. James Wallis, a Methodist missionary,'who arrived in New Zealand.in 1834- .He was born at'Waingaroa and was married in 1874 to the youngest daughter of .Captain Thomas Wing, late harbourmaster at Onehnnga. One of his sons is Captain A. Wallis, of the steamer Fiona. . ;