PERSONALITIES

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 49, 28 February 1938, Page 6

PERSONALITIES

Hon. W. E. Parry and party sailed from Sydney by the Awatea on Saturdy for Wellington.—Press Assn. Acting-Lieutenant-Commander F. E. Taylor has been appointed acting-com-mander in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (New Zealand Division).

Mr. C. A. Burgess has been elected by the council of the New Zealand Gold Association to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. C. H. Andrews.

Mr. A. W. Mulligan, private secretary to the Minister of Lauds, Hon. F. Langstone, has been appointed general secretary to the centennial branch of the Department of Internal Affairs. Mr. M. Buddie, late of the Me Master Laboratory, Sydney, has taken up work at the Government veterinary laboratories, Wallaceville. Mr. J. F. Filmer, Victoria, lately of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, has also joined the staff.

Mr. R. N. K. Swanston, of Takapuna, has been appointed a director of the Guardian Trust and Executors Company of New Zealand, Limited. For 45 years Mr. Swanston was in the service of tiie Bank of Australasia in both Australia and New Zealand, and during nine years before his retirement in 1935 was manager of the Auckland branch of the bank.

Mr. G. W. D. Mulgan, accompanied by Mrs. Mulgan and their youngest son, is at present visiting New Zealand. Mr. Mulgan, who was born in Auckland, was a son of the late Air. E. K. Mulgan, chief inspector of schools, and brother of Mr. A. E. Mulgan, of the National Broadcasting Service. After an absence of 22 years Mr. Mulgan has re turned to New Zealand for a tew weeks’ visit. He will sail by the Awatea on March 15 on his way to England. The death is announced from Auckland of Mr. Thomas Wareham-Smith aged 63, of London, formerly a director of the Daily Mail. He arrived in Wellington on November 5 on a health trip and visited various health resorts. He proposed leaving by the Awatea on Wednesday last for Sydney and London but took ill on February 16 and cancelled his passage. He entered a private hospital in a feeble state and phneumonia intervened despite skilled medical and nuTsing care. Mr. Ware-ham-Smith was of high standing in the newspaper advertising world and had been described as the brains behind some of the late Lord Northcliff's greatest revenue producing ventures. —Press Assn. The death has occurred in Wellington of Mr. William Barton, of Featherston and White Rock Station, aged 80. He was the third son of the late Richard Barton who arrived by the “Oriental” in 1840. His mother was a daughter of Rev. John Butler who was in the Bay of Islands in 1818 and built the first church at Kerikeri. The late Mr. Barton was educated at Wellington College and Cambridge for the legal profession from which he retired to take over the management of White Rock Station which was taken up by the widow and five daughters, namely Marie Barton (England), Mrs. B. Quinn (South Africa), Mrs. E. Lutyens (England), Mrs. R. M. Johnston (Mount Torlesse, Canterbury), and Miss Elspeth Barton (Wellington). The widow was formerly Miss Lucy Studholme, of Canterbury.