PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 17691, 18 June 1921, Page 6

PERSONAL

On Mr T. W. Kirk’s retirement from the Agricultural Department, where ho has served for forty-two years, ho was the recipient of a solid"silver' entree dish from the New Zealand Fruitgrowers' Conference, who eulogised his services. Mr J. A. Lockhart, 8.A., of Dunedin, has been appointed by the Hawke's Bay Education Board to the, positional! ths secondary department of the Waipawa District High School vacated by Mr A. J. Heron.

Mr Robert Mill, fonnerly accountant of the Bank of Now Zealand in Dunedin, :s to be appointed manager in London, vice Mr Alexander Kay, who will retire in September next. 'The directors of the bank have decided to appoint the latter an additional member of the London board.

There died recently at Roslyn Mr Lewis If. Marshall, who "was born at Falkirk in 1845, and who came out to New Zealand in the Cornwall in 1849. Deceased was a. prominent member of the Makati Rifle Volunteers, and became a lieutenant in 1869. He was a, crack rifle shot, winning many shooting prize,-; throughout the Dominion,

! Mr If. F. Von Haast and Mrs Von Haast have sailed by the Shropshire lor England. 1 Mr Alfred Smith, manager of Hie \V<d- : lington branch of the Bank oi New Zea- | land, will retire on pension on June 00. jMr Smith has given forty-eight years’ sendee to the ban!:, wbiilt he joined at Wanganui in 1875. He pi opuses to remain i a resident of Wellington. ! The Verv Lev. Hr J. 11. Hertz, t hief j llalibi of the United Hebrew Congregations : of the British Empire. Mr Albert M. ■ Won If, 0.8. K., and Me A. H. Valentino, secretary for (he Dominion visit, sailed by the Niagara- lor Fiji cn mute to Vancouver. The pa-rlv left England early last October, and by the tone the Canadian visit- is eonndeie and they are aboard the steamer at New V nrk for the run home across the Atlantic eleven months will have keen spout in inuring the British Empire. Mi' J. A Sinclair Wnv- on Monday on a hobdav visp, in Austral!;!. Mr Waller Raymond, ot rirnarn, is a. vislor to Dunedin for He week-end. The death at Port Chalmers to-day of Mr Hugh Cameron re-moves as link of association with rarly-day lowing in Otago Harbor. The laic Mr Cameron was associated with Anthony I’alamouiitain in tho days when dingily rowing was succeeded hv the use of rowing skids, and w;m amomber of the Union Rowing Club, which was succeeded hv the present- Queen s Drive Boating Club. Judge, OiJfcdder passed through Dunedin this morning on his way from Invercargill to Lyttelton, and will go on to I’icton for Native Land Court business. Mr G, A. Lamb, secretary of the South Island Dairy Association, and Messrs A. H. Templeton and W. Robertson (L. and XL Company) went by the 11.15 train today, bound for Palmerston North to attend the conference of the National Dairy Association.

The directors and staff of Messrs John Reid and Sons, Ltd., assembled yesterday for the purpose of making a. presentation to Mr John Knox, who is severing his eouneotion with the firm with a view to takintt up a position with a well-known manufacturing concern. In making the presentation Mr L. Deans ■ Ritchie, on behalf of the directors and stall’, voiced the opinion of all present in saying that Mr Knox during his stay with them had won the esteem and good-will ol them all. These sentiments were endorsed by Mr A. Kilpatrick and others, and in replying the recipient thanked the donors for their gift and reciprocated their good wishes. A New Plymouth message announces the death of Mr William Litchfield Newman, at one time local manager of the Union Steam, Ship Company.