PERSONAL ITEMS

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 184, 7 August 1939, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. A. Crawford has been elected chairman of the trustees of the Wanganui Museum iu succession to Mr. Hone Gibbons, who had bold the office since 1933. Mr. W. H. Cocker was rc-elected president of Auckland University College, and Mr. A. H. Johnstone, K.C., was reelected vice-president, at a meeting of the college council. Dr. A. M. Finlay, of Dunedin, returned by the Monterey after two years’ post-graduate study abroad, including a period spent at the Harvard Law School, under a research fellowship.

Mr. E. J. Craigie, member for Flinders in the South Australian Parliament, will arrive from Sydney by the Aorangi to-day. He is travelling to the United States to attend the Henry George Centenary Conference at New York.

Sir Harry Oakes, of Nassau, in the Bahamas, accompanied by his wife and family, was a through passenger by the Monterey. He is on a holiday visit to Australia, but beforo rejoining the Monterey he paid a brief visit to Roto-

Dr. R. H. W. Strang, a prominont dental specialist, of Bridgeport, United States, passed through Auckland by the Monterey on Iris way to attend th« Australian Dental Congress at Melbourne. Ho was met by officials of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Dental Association.

Mr. H. W. Crawford, managing director of the Northern Publishing Co., Whangarei, expired without warning at 8 o'clock on Saturday morning. Tho late Mr. Crawford was born at Alaungakaramea 57 years ago. He was a schoolteacher for 20 years and was first assistant at the Whangarei primary school when he bought a controlling interest in the publishing company. He was one of the best-known public men in the Northland and one of the Dominion’s most popular newspapermen.

On a brief visit to New Zealand, Dr Roscoe Found, one of tho world’s leading jurists, arrived by the Monterey. Holder of degrees or honorary degrees in 17 universities in America, England and Europe, Dr. Pound retired iu 1930 after 20 years as Dean of the Harvard School of Law, and since then as a university professor has had the right to teach in any faculty as and when he chooses. In recent years he has lecturod in South America and at Oxford aud Cambridge.

The death occurred at Sydney on Saturday at the age of 75 of Mr. James Ashton, a notable figure in tho commercial and political life of New South Wales, lie was chairman of the Commercial Banking Company, Sydney, Limited, and until recently chairman of the Mutual Life Citizens' Assurance Company, Limited, also a member of the Legislative Council and a former Minister of Lands. He was the father of the four well-known international polo players.—Press Assn.

At the annual conference of tho New Zealand Federation of Cage Birds Cluos held on Saturday at New Plymouth, the following officers wero elected: Patron, Sir Ernest Davis (Auckland); president, Mr. R. Chambers (Auckland); vice-presidents, Mr. A. 11. Mansford (Palmerston North) aud Mr. J. T. Bryce (Palmerston North); treasurer, Mr. W. A. Binns (Auckland); secretary, Mr. W. A. Moore (Auckland); management committee, Messrs. C. Mahoney, C. R. Cooper, R. Newton, J. Grade, A. Barnes, A. W. White and W. V. Hart.—Press Assn.

Forty years ago on Friday, on Friday August 4, 1889, Mr. H. E. Vaughan was appointed “clerk and treasurer to the chairman, councillors and inhabitants of Clifton," to quote tho exact wording of tho resolution of appointment, the appointment to dato from September I, 1599. Air. Vaughau has held the position with distinct credit to the chairman, tho council aud the inhabitants of the county, as well as to himself, continuously since then. He has the distinction of having tho second longest service as a count ry clerk in the Dominion, the honour of the longest service going to the clerk of a West Coast county in the South Island, who has -IS r ears’ service to his credit.