PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 137, 7 December 1922, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Sir Francis Bell will be the chief gnest at the Juncheon of the New Zealand Club on 14th Deoember. Mr. R. I. Allan, of the Otago district telegraph engineer's staff, has been pro. moted to the position of assistant-super-visor in the Wellington district office. Captain Herbert Sydney Cox has been appointed harbourmaster at Oamaru in succession to Captain Ramsay, who is retiring after twenty-six years' service. The death is announced at Pukekohe of Mr. Alexander Russell, who was formerly well known in the Police Force at Auckland. Deceased was superannuated from the force some time ago owing to ill-health. He is survived by a widow. ■1 Captain T. C. Fulton, M.C./Omcer-in-Charge of His Majesty's Trade Commissioner's Office, leaves Wellington on Thursday on an official visit to Auckland, and expects to return to Wellington early next week. Dr. Garnet Harty, who has been visiting England and the Continent for several months, is returning by the lonic, which arrives on Sunday, Mrs. Harty and their little daughter accompanying him. Mr. John Goulston, Deputy Grand .Master, and Mr 1. H. D. Christenson, Junior Grand Warden\ of the Masonic Grand Lodge of New South Wales, who came to New Zealand to attend the installation of His Excellency Viscount Jellicoe as Grand Master, toetuMied to Wellington from Christchurch this morning. After the: installation the party motored through the ,Otira> Gorge to Hokitika, where Mr. Goulston was born. The West Coasters are very proud of the fact that their one-time townsman has risen to such a high position in Masonry in Australia. Mr. GouLston is a brother of Mrs. Sol. Myers, of Wei-. lington. ,

The funeral,'of the late Thomas Edwin Jackson, who met his death by a shoofc ing accident at Westport last week, took place at Karori Cemetery on Monday, and was attended by representatives of the Good Templar, Orange, Freemason, and Oddfellows' Lodges. Mr. Jackson was; a native of Yorkshire, England, and went to sea at an early age.' On his arrival in New Zealand, about thirty years ago, he entered the coastal service, and for the last eighteen Years was em,r on the Westport Harbour dredges. fHe held a master mariner's certificate. Much sympathy is felt for Mrs. Jackson, who recently lost her mother (the late Mrs. Goodger, of Newtown), and who is left with two young children. The only other relative in New Zealand'is his sister, Mrs..W. Morris, of Westport.