PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 18031, 27 July 1922, Page 7

PERSONAL

Mr W. Fels, managing director of Hallenstein Bros., Ltd., was seen off at the Dunedin railway station this morning by a large, party of personal and business friends. He is bound for a trip to Europe, proposing to return in a year's time. Mr R. Ferguson left to-day for Wellington to attend the dominion conference between employers and employed 1 in printing trades industry. This conference was asked for by the Arbitration Court during its sitting in Christchurch. 1 Mr W. Newton, Conciliation Commissioner, is to preside. Mr Howard James, South Island representative of Archibald Clark and Sons, left Duitedin fur Christchurch to-day. Mr T. Felton, railway station master at Greymouth, s spending a holiday in Dunedin. ' . t Mr Walter Monk went on to Christchurch to-day to make advance arrangements for the tour of Toscha Soidel, the Russian violinist. Mr A. Macpherson. of the Invercargill saw-milling firm, came to Dunedin to-day on business. , Captain and Mrs F. Ballinger and the-ir son William, of the Salvation Army (Roslyn Corps), left yesterday morning by the express for their new appointment in charge of the Workmen’s Home, Wellington. Mr W. H. Jackson, the head master of the Maslerton District. High School, has announced that ho intends to contest the election for the .Maslerton seat as a etrabdit-out supporter of the Government. Mr T. W. Tibbs, who has been head master of the Auckland Grammar School since 1895, and who was for eight yeais prior to that mathematical master, has resigned, from the end of January next. Ho tendered his resignation sonic time ago, but at the request of the Board of Governors agreed, to continue for the remainder of the year. Mr J. T. MacLeod Smith, who died this week, came to Christchurch with his parents in 1850, After finishing his schooling he was apprenticed to the proprietors of the ‘Evening Mail.’ and when that paper became defunct he, in conjunction with the late Rev. John Armitago (afterwards drowned in the wreck of the Tararua), purchased the plant of the ‘ Mail,’ and (being joined by his father and his brother) established the business now known as Smith and Anthony, Ltd. In the seventies ho abandoned a business life for the profession of teacher of music, and this ho followed for a period of nearly fifty years. Some of his_ choir appointments were;—Holy Trinity, Lyttelton; Durham -Street, Christchurch; St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral, D lined in ; Presbyterian Church, Invercargill; -, ' and Anglican Churches at Waimate, St. John’s (Christchurch), Addington, and Sydenham. lie was for a time conductor of the Christchurch Musical Society. —Christchurch correspondent. At the New Zealand Farmers’ Union Conference in Wellington to-day Mr W. J. Poison was re-elected president. The funeral -of Mr Joseph Edwards, who was for many years connected with this journal, took "place this morning. There was a representative gathering of bonders and his business associates. The cortege left the residence in Main road, North-east Valley, and proceeded to the Anderson Bay Cemetery, where the -service was conducted by the Rev. L. G. Whitehead.