PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 20322, 2 November 1929, Page 15

PERSONAL

Mr Harold Arch bold returned !asß night from a business visit to Sydney and Melbourne. Mr Robert Sutherland MacKenzie, who died at Dunedin on Monday of this week, at the age of ninety-two., was a Satherlandshire man who mined on _ the Victorian Goldfields in the fifties and was in the Gabriel’s rusk of 1861. In later years he farmed at Gatlins and at Puerna, and for the last twelve years resided at Caversham. His wife died nine years ago. In his old age Sir MacKenzie was stone deaf,One of his sons was Mr Robert Mackenzie, of St. Clair, who died recently.

The Returned Soldier’s Commission, has concluded its sitting in Dunedin, and this morning Sir John Luke, and Messrs J,. S. Barton (chairman) and “‘•»r ~? rrlsoll travelled to Wellington. Air \\. Alexander, of Messrs Kempthorno, Prosser’s left for Auckland this morning. M" Alexander, until recenty, w a s chairman ot the Southland i rogresm-e League, his headquarters now being in Dunedin. Mr J. p. Walls went north ibis monimg to meet his son. Father John Walls, who has been studying in Paris tor the last four years. Dr J. R. Elder, of Dunedin, has been appointed, president of the Austialasian Association for the Advancement of Science, Historical Section. Xne conference of the association will ‘ Je held m Brisbane next June. The office and sales staff of Messrs ml Ra , ttra y Son Dtd., met on Ibnrsday to say good-bye to Mr W. J. M Innes, who was leaving the employ at the company after seven years’ serxfCe‘i 9, n hehalf of his fellow-employees Mr Anderson wished Mr M‘Junes ’ success m Jus career as an accountant, and presented him with a set of smoker s requisites to mark the good relations that had existed between them.

Mr Harry Duke, of the wool department of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile -Agency Company, Ltd., who has been for some time in England in the factory of Sir James Hill and Co., at Bradford, studying the English process of sorting, scouring, and costing i\ool, and who also spent several months /n the factory of Messrs Henri Caulnaz and Co., at Roubaix, Franco, studying hrench methods, is on his way to ?sew Zealand. The knowledge gamed during his stay abroad will be or value to the company's wool department. r

C . r ®- r j,h to the memory of the late bir George Fenwick and''the late Mr J. Lmhbndgo wore paid at a meeting ot the Executive Committee of the Dunedin Town Planning and Amenities. Society yesterday afternoon. The chairman (Mr Crosby Morris) said that the society had suffered a very severe loss through the deaths of two suck valued members of the committee, iioth had been of great assistance to the society in its work, and had always placed their wide knowledge of horticultural matters at the society’s disposal Their counsel would be sorely missed. .Members stood in silence as a. mark of respect to the memorv of the deceased.

„ British official wireless mess a "ft irom Hug by states that Carson has resigned his office as Lord of Appeal.

I he death is announced of Mrs Selina. Cossgrove, relict of Lieutenant-colonel D. ■ Cossgrove, V.D., the lirst Chief Scout of New Zealand. Mrs Cossgrove was_ well known throughout the dominion for her interest in the Boy Scouts, Girl Peace Scouts, and military affairs through her husband’s long and close association with these movements. Born m 18-19 at Ciarney Hill, Perthslure, Scotland, Mrs Cossgrove arrived with her parents in the Silistria at Dunedin in 1860, and with the other women of those early pioneering days did much useful work in establishing the little colony in Otago. She was the third daughter of Mr William Robertson, of Otago Peninsula. She was married in 1873 to Mr- David Cossgrove, of the Education Department. While at Westport she initiated a scouting scheme for boys and girls, and did much towards the establishing of the Gladstone Memorial Ward for women in Westport Hospital; and later, at Tuahiwi, was active in training the women and girls of the Maori pa in home science and hygiene. Among her sons are Captain D. C. Cossgrove, J.P., of Christchurch, and Staff Sergeant-major W. W. C. Cossgrove, of Auckland.—Christchurch correspondent. Visitors to the Grand Hotel include Mr H. G. Scott (England), Mr E. W. Finch (Sydney), Mrs G. S. Kent, Miss Kent, Mr A. W. Israel (Auckland), Mr and Mrs B. Kelly, Mr Ivan Holmes (Wellington), Messrs J. A. East and Cecil W. Smith (Christchurch ). The latest arrivals at the Excelsior Hotel include Mr George Hewitt (Marten), Mr C, Williams (Wellington). Miss J. Oldbury, Mr N, R. Johnston (Christchurch), Mr J. T. Dundas (Invercargill).

City Hotel guests include Mr and Mrs R. L. ifeeve, Dr P, Marshall (Wellington), Miss E. Beardsmqre (Oamnrn), Mr R. Johnstone (Gore). Mrs P. Campbell (Wyndham), Mr and Mrs TL M. Strang, Miss Strang (Invercargill) .