PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 74, 1 April 1929, Page 11

PERSONAL MATTERS

On the motion of Mr. H. Buxton, Mr. Stanley B. Childs was on Wednesday last admitted as n solicitor,of the Supreme Court by his Honour Mr. Justice Hcrdmau, Acting-Chief Justice.

Major Fritz Henningsen, vice-consul for Denmark in Australia and New Zealand, is paying his first visit to the Dominion. Ho has boon stationed in Australia for the past three years, and will return to Copenhagen in May to rejoin the Danish Foreign OJHco there.

Major 0. It. Mead, D.5.0., New Zealand Staff Corps, has graduated at Die Staff College, C'amberlcy, states. "The Post's" London correspondent. It is officially announced that Brevet Lieut.Colonel B. C. Frcyberg, V.C., C.M.C., D.5.0., LL.D., Grenadier Guards, G.S.O. 2nd grade, Eastern Commurd, has relinquished his appointment, , and ho lias been gazetted from the Grenadier Guards to be Lieutenant-Colonel, Ist Battalion, the Manchester llegiment. It is interesting to note that this battalion is stationed at Shorncliffe, and that the Manchester llegiment is allied with tho Southland Regiment (Bth .Southland) and 14th (South Otago) Regiments, -■Invercargill. . . . The Rev. C. C. Harper, M.A., Rector of Ford, Berwiek-on-Tweed, has been appointed Chaplain of Etal, Cornhill-on-Tweed.

References to the services rendered the Federated Justices' Association of New Zealand by its honorary registrar, Mr. I. Salek, of Wellington, were made at tho annual conference in JSTow Plymouth last week. Mr. H. Smith (Christchurch), a past president, said the work performed by tho registrar required some recognition on the part of the federation, and moved that tho executive bo authorised to ■make some suitable recognition. Mr. Rosser, in seconding the proposal, said that no association could be better served. The motion was supported by Messrs. Gee, Lloyd, Robertson, Donaldson, Kcesing, and Keir, all of whom spoke in tho highest terms of Mr. Salek's work and:eiithusiasm for 1 tho federation. Mr. Salek thanked the delegates for their vote of appreciation, which he said was sufficient recognition for him, and he hoped they would leave it at that, especially as they had made him a. presentation during the year. He did not desire any monetary recognition of his services.

Mr. Fredorick Wilkinson, grand secretary of the Independent Order of Oddfellows, diedsuddenly, telegraphs "The Post's" Dunedin'correspondent. He returned to his home at Bellcknowcs on Monday week from, tho biennial session of the order at Nelson and at the time .seemed to bo in normal health, but on Wednesday he became so ill that immediate attention by "a surgeon was necessary. 1 He died on Saturday at about 1 p.m. • The announcement will be road by his many friends''and brethren with surprise arid deep concern, for Mr. Wilkinson was not merely an exceptionally capable accountant but a great worker with' a keen sense of duty, and personally a most likeable man. He .was born in London, and arrived in Auckland thirty years ago. He came to Dunedin in 1914, having been appointed accountant in the office of the Grand Lodge, 1.0.0. F. Tho lato Mr. William Eeid was then grand secretary. When Mr. lleid resignod in 1922'" Mr. Wilkinson was elected to the position. He was also a member of the Masonic Order and of tho M.U.1.0.0.F.,. and the Loyal Orange Society, and lion, auditor of the Dunedin Shakespeare Club. Mrs. Wilkinson survives her husband, and there are three married, daughters and one son, Mr. Alfred Wilkinson, of tlui Dunedin Telegraph Office. The eldest son, Frederick George, died in Auckland in 191 S.