PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 117, 18 April 1931, Page 8

PERSONAL

Mr Justice Ostler, who was operated upon in Wellington a week ago, is progressing steadily.

Mr A. L. Haddon, M.A., is the guest of Mr and Mrs Frank Pullyn during his stay in Palmerston North.

Tho condition of Senior-Sergeant O’Grady, who is seriously ill in a private hospital in Christchurch, now shows a slight improvement. It is understood that Mr A. F. Wimsett will be a candidate for the Palmerston North City Council at the forthcoming municipal election.

A Sydney cable message announces the death of Mr Charles A. Jeffries, aged 62. Mr Jeffries at one time was in the New Zealand railway service. Later he became a well-known writer. Archdeacon R. Creed-Meredith, of Wanganui, loft for Sydney yesterday afternoon. Accompanied by his wife, he will go on to England by the Otranto. He is making the trip for the benefit of his health.

A London cable message says that the Archbishop of Canterbury, who has been on a health cruise in the Mediterranean with his friend Mr Pierpont Morgan, arrived in Jerusalem on Wednesday. The special committee of the Senate of the New Zealand University which met yesterday at Wellington awarded tho Macmillan-Brown research scholarship for agriculture to Mr L. Corkill, of Massey College. Mr Maurice Ralph, concert director for Messrs J. and . Tait, is at present in town making arrangements for the forthcoming visit of Joseph Hislop, the famous English tenor, to the Opera House on May 9.

Brother of the Minister of Labour, Hon. S. G. Smith, Mr S. J. Smith, of Devonport, Auckland, died recently. Born in Wellington, he was a son of the late Mr E. M. Smith, for many years member for Taranaki. He was formerly a member of the Permanent Forces.

Mr E. F. W. Cooke died suddenly at the New Plymouth Hospital after several weeks of indifferent health. The late Mr Cooke was 77 years of age, and earlier in his life was a well-known master at Nelson College, while his wife was art mistress at the girls'’ college. Leaving Nelson in 1904, Air Cooke joined the Lands and Survey Department and was stationed at New Plymouth for many years.

Mr L. J. Mullins, a member of a well-known Palmerston North sporting family, was a passenger by the Sydney boat yesterday, it being his intention to take up his residence in Australia. Mr Mullins is a splendid all-round athlete, having represented Manawhenua and Manawatu at Rugby and Manawatu at cricket, while he was a track runner and jumper of more than average merit a few years back. The death of Mr Thomas Kite at Nelson recently marked the severing of a link with the early days of the southern cathedral city, the family being all well-known identities, while the deceased was a native born resident of 80 years’ standing. The deceased’s mother had the distinction of being the first white woman to erect a building at Richmond. Mr C. J. Roberts, of Palmerston North, is a grandson. The late Mr William Kite, of Main Street East, was a nephew of deceased. Mr William Watson, a director of the Bank of New Zealand, was yesterday appointed chairman of the bank at a meeting of directors. Ho succeeds Sir George Elliot, who was a director of the bank for 12 years, for nine of which lie was chairman, and who is now visiting England. Mr Watson was actingchairman of the Bank of New Zealand in 1924. Formerly he was the first State president of the bank before that office was abolished. Mr R. M. Watson, S.M., of Feilding, is a son of Mr W. Watson.

The late Air Thomas Stagpoole, headmaster of tho Ohinewai School, whose death was announced in tho “Standard” yesterday, was for a number of years' head teacher at the Whakarongo School, where he enjoyed the esteem and respect of the scholars and parents. Air Stagpoole resided at Terrace End where lie organised and was Scoutmaster of the first troop of Boy Scouts to be formed in that suburb. Air Stagpoole was keenly interested in tho movement’s welfare and devoted his energies to the boys’ interests.

Leaving Invercargill after an almost life-long association, Air John E. Lillicrap, who for thirty years was a solicitor practising in the southern town, and formerly Mayor, has taken up his residence in Palmerston North. Early in his career Air Lillicrap entered the Land Transfer Office and he was also on the staff of the Supreme Court and Stamp Office. He left Invercargill for Dunedin where he was in the Land Transfer Office until 1894, when he retired from the public service, having qualified as a solicitor. He commenced practice in Invercargill in 1595, later entering into a partnership. For 22 years Air Lillicrap was a member of the Borough Council and was Alayor from 1921 to 1923. He was the first president of the reconstituted Southland Alotor Association. A keen lover of golf, he was connected with the Invercargill Golf Club for many years and was a vice-president for a considerable period. The members of the Southland District Law Society gathered to bid farewell to Air Lillicrap prior to his departure, and several speakers paid sincere tributes to liis excellent qualities as a legal practitioner and as a valuable public-minded citizen. The Invercargill Golf Club also farewelled Air Lillicrap.