PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 1 June 1928, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr J. A. Matheson arrived in Hawera yesterday to make arrangements for the opening of the local season of tiie Royal Australian Sunbeams on Monday week.

The present chairman or the Hawera School Committee, Mr J. W. J. Harding, has held that office longer than any other chairman —a period of seven years.

J)r. Mecredy, district- health officer, arrived in Hawera district yesterday. He wa-s a guest at the Central Hotel and left to-day for New Plymouth. Among the recent visitors to Hawera, staying at the White Hart Hotel, was Mr S. Bridges, of Wellington. Mr Heeney, of head office of the National Provident Fund Department, arrived on a visit to Hawera yesterday and is staying at the Commercial Hotel.

A Press Association message from Wellington states that Mr. A. W. Morris, accountant at the Chief Post Office, Dunedin, died suddenly at Wellington yesterday when passing through en route to Dunedin.

Mr C. E. Falkner, who lias been a popular host of the E'gmont Hotel for the past four years, is leaving for Wellington next week. Mr Falkner is being succeeded hv Mr Ei. Constance, of the Club Hotel, Blenheim, who is to take over the Egmont Hotel this week end. !

“That this- committee place on record their hearty appreciation of the very enthusiastic and efficient services rendered by Mr O. H. Brough during a Jong term on the committee for 6 years as secretary, and that a letter conveying this be sent to him,” was the text of a motion carried at last night’s meeting of the Hawera- School Committee. The chairman remarked thatMr Brough’s service had been good and painstaking.

A tribute to the late Sir John Hosking was paid by Bench and Bar at the Supreme Court at Palmerston North yesterday, Mr Justice Ostler referring to the deceased as a man with singular charm of manner, the product of a warm heart. He had made himself universally beloved by those who knew him. He had the highest sense of the great traditions of the Bench, those traditions were always safe in his hands. His reputation was firmly established as a great equity judge, and he would always, be remembered as a kind-hearted, courteous, modest English gentleman. Born at Penzance, Cornwall, in 1854, the Jate Sir John Hosking, who died at Wellington on Wednesday, came to New Zealand with his parents- as a child, and -received his education in Auckland. At sixteen years of age he was articled to the late Mr Samuel Jackson, of Messrs Jackson and Russell, and he was admitted as a barrister and solicitor by Mr Justice Gillies in 1875. Shortly afterwards he removed to Dunedin, where, in 1877, he became a member of the firm of Kenyon and Hosking, which was carried on until 1898. Eor the next ten years lie practised alone, at the end of which period he and Mr John Cook, head of a well-known Dunedin practice, amalgamated. In 1907 the late Sir John Ho-sking was appointed King’s Counsel, and in 1914 he was elevated to the Supreme Court Bench. In 1924 he took a long holiday, and visited England, and on his return announced his impending retirement. from the Bench. He was prevailed upon, however. to continue on the Supreme Court Bench in order to deal with applications arising out of the Mortgages Final Extension Act. He retired early in 1925, and his long record of service op the Bench was recognised by the King in conferring on him a knighthood in the birthday honours list of that year. >