PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 17545, 28 December 1920, Page 6

PERSONAL

A Suez despatch to London states that the Duke of Connaught, en route to India aboard the Malay, is ill. ,MrD. E. Theornin has returned.to Dunedin, after a four and a-half months' visit to Australia.

W. A. Bird, this year's' dux of the Napier Boys' High School, is a son of Mr W. W. Bird, M.A., chief inspector of schools, Hawke's Bay. and well known in Dunedin. Bird, who is seventeen of age, has won a junior national scholaf&ip, is at present a holder of a senior national scholarship, and recently sat for the university entrance examination. His special bent is languages, and it is probable that he will go in for medicine. This clever scholar is a grandson of the late Mr Arthur Morrison, M.P. for Caversham and a nephew of Mrs W. Orchard, David street.

The Hon. W. G. Bagnall, Minister of Finance and Treasurer to the Tonean Government, accompanied bv Mrs Bagnall, arrived at Auckland by the Navua. Mr Bagnall will remain in New Zealand for four or five months. Hr has been in Tonga for over sixteen years.' Mr Frederick Moyes. a member of the Courtneidge Comedy Company (now in New Zealand), served with distinction and was mentioned in despatches during the Great War. He gave up an engagement at £I,OOO a year in America to enlist in the ranks in England. Subsequently he gained a commission.

Sir Cecil Moon and Lieutenant-colonel F. B. Cresswell, Boy Scouts Commissioners in New Zealand, have been awarded the Medal of Merit, according to an announcement in a recent issue of ' The Scout,' the official organ of the Boy Scouts. Mr William Naughtoh, who was for many years president of the Wellington Bookbinders and Paper Rulers' Union, and a member and one-time president of the Trades Council, died in Wellington on Wednesday. Mr Naughton was born in Nelson fifty-two years ago, and was from early times until comparatively recently associated with the Labor movement (savs the Post'). He was essentially a sane worker in the cause of Labor, and enjoyed the friendship of the lat-e Right Hon. R J. Seddon, the Hon. C. W. Walker, and many members of the Liberal Cabinet.

Sub-inspector Cruikshank, who is retiring on superannuation after forty-two years' service in the police force, was farewelled at Greymouth last week. There was a large gathering of members of local bodies and citizens, and the Mayor (Mr J. D. Lynch) presided. On behalf of the public he presented Sub-inspector Cruikshank with a substantial cheque. Subinspector Cruikshank and his daughter are leaving on a visit to Scotland early in the new year. Captain Harold M'Kenzie has been appointed to Cliristchnrch city, and will be succeeded in Dunedin by Commandant Robert Simpson. Mr Penn, of the ' Otaki Mail,' takes charge of the ' Waikato Independent' as from the Ist pros. The death occurred in New Plymouth a few days ago of Mr H. C. Boyle, general manager »of the Eltham Dairy Company. About. eighteen months ago Mr Boyle went to the' United States on the dairy company's business, and when he returned appeared to be in perfect health. His death is not only a loss to the Eltham Dairy Company, but also to the dairy industry of the Dominion.

Messrs 1. "V. Hanning and R. Stuart Pollock arrived in Dunedin last evening from Sydney.