PERSONAL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 1778, 1 March 1923, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Miss Queenie Haselden, daughter of Canon Haselden, of Mount Albert, is the guest of Mr and Mrs R. Car-

nachan.

Archdeacon R. A. Woodthorpe, of Dunedin, has been appointed Professor of Economics by the Otago University Council,

Ratana, with a following of 78 believers, arrived in Te Kuiti on Thursday for the purpose of opening the new Ratana Church at Te Kumi.

Mr ,W. S. Milburn, who, for the last fifteen months, has been acting as assistant Town Clerk, Te Kuiti, has been appointed Town Clerk of Cambridge.

Mr A. Paterson, of the legal staff of Messrs Broadfoot and Finlay, has been appointed manager at Pukekohe for Messrs Thorne and Thome, of Auckland, and leaves on Saturday to take up his duties.

The Public Service Commissioner, Mr W. R. Morris, will shortly retire from public service on superannuation. It is understood that, at his own request, he will relinquish office as from the end of this month.

Mr J. A. Young, M.P. for Hamilton, and for many years member for the Waikato, is to be entertained at a picnic at Ruakura Farm on Saturday next, when he will be made the recipient of a presentation.

The death of Mr W. T. Jennings was referred to at a meeting of directors of the New Plymouth Gas Company last Monday, and the following motion was passed: “That the directors of the New Plymouth Gas Company wish to express their sincere regret at the death of their colleague, Mr W. T. Jennings, and to place on record their appreciation of his services to the company, and that a letter be forwarded to the bereaved family expressing sympathy and condolence.”

The wreck of the steamer Wairarapa on the Great Barrier Reef in October, 1894, has been recalled by the death of Mr J. W. Dunlop, second engineer of the ill-fated steamer. Mr A. J. Lumley, of Howe Street, who was a passenger on the Wairarapa,' was with Mr Dunlop during the fearful night of the wreck and landed with him on the beach on the following morning, and he writes to us to correct the statement that it was to Mr Dunlop that the Royal Humane Society’s medal was awarded, and that other gifts were made, for carrying a life-line ashore from the steamer. “This honour,” Mr Lumley writes, “belongs to Mr Ben Kendall, who succeeded in getting the line ashore at the risk of his own life. He was rewarded by a few survivors with a gold watch and chain on arrival in Wellington. These, along with the other honours bestowed upon him, he entrusted to me for safe keeping. Like all true heroes he thought very little of what he did, and Mr Dunlop would have been one of the first to yield honour where honour was due.”