PERSONAL.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2463, 3 October 1914, Page 2

PERSONAL.

The Hon. J. A. JVlillar has been granted seven days'" leave of absence from the House of Representatives on account of illness. Mi6S L. Pemberton, 8.A., is to act ac third assistant in the secondary department of the Feilding District High School from October '12 until the end of the year. Dr W. S. Robertson, late house surgeon at tho Rotorua Sanatorium, has left the tourist resort Iα order to take up private practice in Hastings. Mr Wilfrid Sim, the third eon oi Mr Justice Sim, who went from Wellington to Samoa with the first Ex- | petitionary Force, found his opportunity there. When the German officials were compelled to leave, it became necessary to replace their administration, and Mr Sim, holding the qualifications of barrister .and solicitor, was appointed Commissioner of Police, Crown Prosecutor, and Administrator of Native Affaire. The death has just occurred at his ,1-esidence, Murphy street, Wellington, of Mr John Newton, proprietor ofthe eoap works at Kaiwarra. Mr Newton, who was 77 j-ears of age, was a native of Glasgow, where he had long engaged in the soap trade, and he arrived in. Wellington in 1885 with a complete plant for that business. From Nelson comes word of the death of Mrs Jane Maria Atkinson, widow of Mr A. S. Atkinson, and mother of Mr A. R. Atkinson, exM.P. for Wellington, after an illness of some duration, at the advanced age of 90 years. She came to New Zealand iii the Sir Edward Paget, leaving Gravesend early in December, 1852, reaching Auckland in May, 1853. On hoard the ship were her brother (afterwards Mr Justice Richmond) and his wife, the future Sir Harry Atkinson (for years Premier of New Zealand), and his brother Arthur, w4iom Mrs Atkinson subsequently married. She had resided in Nelson since 1868. Mrs Atkinson leaves one married (Mrs C. Y. Fell) and two unmarried daughters. Miss Johnstone, who has been pianist at the Lyceum, for just over 12 months, leaves for Wellington on Monday next. She lias, been transferred to the Star Theatre, Newlown.. Mrs Barber, who is well-known in musical circles in the South Island, takes her place. Mrs Barber,' who comes from Christchurch, Eae sung in oratorio in Feilding.