Personals.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 239, 22 September 1922, Page 4

Personals.

Mr. “Pussyfoot” Johnson, is due at Dunedin on Saturday, 30th Sep tomber. Mr. H. P. West, station master at Napier, has received notice of his transfer to Dunedin as chief clerk in the district traffic manager’s office. Mr. H. N. Benson, at present headmaster of the Makotuku School, is to be recommended to the Education Department for appointment of organising teacher in the Povertv Bay district in place of Mr. A. Bullians, who has resigned. Captain John Collingwood Mac Lean, at present master of the Union Steam Ship Company’s steamer Kaitoke, was yesterday appointed harbourmaster and chief pilot of the port of Otago. A large number of applications was received from all parts of the Dominion. The Rev. Monro, Jate of Rotorua, who has been appointed to minister to the Maoris at Wairoa, leaves Hastings on Saturday by motor to take up duties in his new district. He will be accompanied by Mrs Monro, who later proceeds to Rotorua, where she will continue to reside until a clergy house is built at Wairoa. The Rev. J. H. Datson Loxton. South Australia, has been appointed pastor of the Masterton Congregational Church, which, owing to the loss of its former pastor (the Rev. W Russell) during the influenza epidemic, has been closed for the last four years. He is expected to take up his pastorate Romo time next month. In a recent issue of the “Advertising World” there appeared a photograph and a personal sketcji of Mr. J. M. A. Hott, who was described as an outstanding figure in the advertising world of Australia and New Zealand. In an interview he gave his impressions of American advertising. Mr. Hott was one of the speakers at the June dinner of the Thirty Club, in London. Major G. Crawshaw, at one f secretary of the H.B. Education Board, was yesterday welcomed back to the board as a member representing Poverty Bay area. The present secretary (Mr. W. L. Dunn) speaking on liehalf of the staff, said it spoke well for the administration that in spite of “digs” frpm school committees and disagreements the school committees had realised the past secretary’s worth and sent him hack to represent them. At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Employers’ Federation in Wellington yesterday the election of officers resulted as follows: —President, Mr T. S. Weston; vice-president, Mr A. C. Mitchell; treasurer, Mr H. Coull; trustees, Messrs T. Ballinger, W. H. Bennett, A. H. Miles, Dr. C. Prendergast ami Knight; auditor, Mr W. C. Stephens; advisory board, presidents of affiliated associations and bodies, together with officers of the ’federation. The English new’spa per “Nature” refers with regret to the death of Mr. S. Percy Smith, at New’ Plymouth, father of Mr. Compton Smith, of Havelock North, describing him as probably more widely known than any other among students of Polynesian ethnology, and adding: “His ability in affairs was recognised and made use of by the New Zealand Government on several occasions, perhaps most notably when he was despatched to Niue, where he drew up the Constitution under which that island has prospered ever since. In spite of his varied services to the State, it is in another capacity that he will lie best remembered, namely, as the leadin' authority on Polynesian traditions. A service to ethnology almost as important as the publication of his own works was performed by Percy Smith in the capacity of president of the Polynesian Society and editor of its Journal. By thus providing a means for the rapid publication of ethnological research in New Zealand and the Pacific, he performed a service for anthropology in that part of the globe probably greater than has been rendered by any other worker in the field. No one could meet Percy Smith without recognising the strength and range of his intellect, irfe rendered readv help alike to great and small. His loss will lie felt not only by the who knew him personally and experienced his generous help, but also every student who begins research in the field of which was was the unchallenged master.’ 1