PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 9 November 1933, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sympathy with the Leader of the Legislative Council (Sir James Parr) and family in the death of Lady Parr was expressed o'n the motion of the Hon. R. Masters in the Legislative Council yesterday, the Press Association reports.

Mr .J. W. Harvey, receiver of land revenue at Napier, has been appointed chief clerk at the New Plymouth. Lands and Survey Office. Mr Harvey was formerly a member of the New Plymouth staff.

The death of Mr Alexander Jobson, editor of “ Jobson’s Investment Digest” and deputy-chairman of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, is reported in a Sydney cable. He was also a director of several companies and was a brigadier-general in -the war and served in France. He was 58 years of age.

At a meeting of the standing committee of the Dunedin Anglican diocese the resignation of Bishop Richards was announced, states a Press Association message. The date was not fixed. The Right Rev. Isaac Richards was appointed Bishop of Dunedin in 1920. He was born in Devonshire in 1859, and was educated at Wesleyan College and Oxford. He became curate of St. Paul’s, Truro, in 1882. He .then came to New Zealand, being first at Auckland. In 1595 he became warden, of Schvyn College, Dunedin, vicar of Tuapeka in 1900, and of St. Paul’s, Invercargill, in 1916. He was canon of St. Paul’s Cathedral, Dunedin, and Archdeacon successively in Queenstown and Invercargill.