PERSONALITIES

Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 217, 17 September 1934, Page 6

PERSONALITIES

MR, H. 11. CORNISH, Solicitor, General, who has been appointed a King's Counsel, and is to be “called Avithin the Bar” at Wellington to-day.

The King has been pleased to approve the appointment of BrigadierGeneral Sir Alexander Ilorc-Ruthvch to be Governor of the Statu of New South Wales, in succession to Air ViceMarshal Sir Philip Game, who will relinquish his appointment early in .19115.

Last week Mr B. Elsinore, who leaves Palmerston North to-day for an appointment at Alfredton, was honoured by members of the Palmerston North branch of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, of which he has been secretary for six years. A set of fishing gear was presented to him as a memento of appreciation.

Cabled advice has been received in Auckland from London of the death of Mr A. M. Mitehison, chairman of the Wailii Gold Mining Co. Ho was about S 3 years of age. He was elected a director in 1891 and became chairman in 1905. lie was also for many years a director of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., and was also on the London board of an insurance company.

Reference to the death of Mr. J. U. Whitehead, of Dannevirke, was made by Rev. Raymond Simpson at the Palmerston Congregational Church yesterday morning, when ho voiced the sympathy of the congregation with relatives of deceased. For many years, while a resident of Palmerston North, the .late Mr. Whitehead was organist and choirmaster at the church, while Mrs Whitehead (nee Dahl) was a member of the choir.

The extraordinary sympathy aroused through the death of Messrs S. \\. Green (pilot) and J. A. Austin in the air crash in tho Pouakai Ranges on Thursday was exemplified at the funerals at New Plymouth yesterday, pays a Press Association telegram. Both were popular young men. A cortege of cars half-a-mile long followed the hearse conveying the body of Green to tho cemetery. Austin’s funeral was of a more private nature. The death occurred at Christchurch on Saturday evening of Mr. Walcot Wood, aged 70, a retired merchant and company director. He was a director of Wood Brothers, mbrehants, and of New Zealand Newspapers, Ltd. Mr Wood took no part in public affairs, but he was interested in sport. He married in 1893 the second daughter of Sir Henry Brett. Two sons are Mr. Brett Wood, who is farming at Amberlcy, and Mr. Ivan W'ood, a solicitor, of Christchurch. —Press Association,