PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 December 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

—-♦ ; I.'---, ■■'■' A well-known pioneer and Greymouth citizen, William ©'Kaine, died yesterday. He had been over 50 years on the coast. Constable Hedgman has received no; tice of his transfer from Hawera to Wanganui, and leaves for Wanganui .tomorrow. A London cable states that the Australian Press Association understands that Mr J. B. Collins has been appointed acting Official Secretary to the Commonwealth in London. Mr William Anderson, M.A., of Glasgow, has been appointed' to the chair of philosophy at Auckland University College from eight applicants, and Mr P. W. Burbidge, M.Sc. (N.G.), B.A. (Cantab), fa> the chair of physics, from five applicants.—Press Assn. The following promotions and appointments in the Public Trust Office are announced: Mr P. A. Maeomish, divisional accountant,.,head office; Mr C. A. Carmine,, divisional accountant,, head" omce; Mr F. W. Browne, divisional accountant, head office; Mr K. J. Caverhill, divisional accountant', head office;; Mr A. It. McNeilly, districb accountant, Hawera; Mr K. C. Stockman, district accountant,, Gisborne; Mr B^ W. Banks, assitant accountant, head office. The late: Hon.. J. A. Tole,. Crovrn Prosecutor at Auckland, was- bom ia Yorkshire of' Irish parents, who> brought him out. to. New Zealand at an early age. He- was educated, at St. John's College, Auckland, dnd at, Sydaey, where he matriculated in 1865. Three, years later he graduated B.A. at the Sydney University, and entered the legal profession, being admitted to the 'New Sbuth Wales Bar in 1871, aad to the New, Zealand Bar in the following year. He entered public affairs, and after serving on various local bodies was elected in 1875 to the House of j Representatives as member for Eden. In 1884 he entered the Stout-Vogel Ministry as Minister of Justice, an &p----pointment which he held till 1887, when he was defeated at the general I elections. In 1893 he was appointed Crown Prosecutor at Auckland, a posi- ! tion which he has held ever since. • He was also latterly a member of the New Zealand University College Council, Governor of the Auckland Grammar. School, and a trustee of the. Jubilee Institute for the Blind. He was appointed a K.C. in 1907.