PERSONAL

Northern Advocate, 15 January 1926, Page 4

PERSONAL

■The death has occurred of Mr John Lewis, vice-president of the British Football Association.

A London, cable announces that Sir Austen Chamberlain is convalescing at Eapallo, on the Gulf of Genoa. , Air W. Jones, M.P., left by train today for Wellington on Parliamentary business.

Mr W. J. Gow, Chief Postmaster at Auckland, paid an official visit to Whangarci on Wednesday and Thursday.

The Eev S. Nixon, of Pukokohe, is an inmate of a private hospital in Auckland, having been operated on for appendicitis.

A Press message from Sydney states that the Niagara's passengers include Sir Ivor Phillips and Sir Eichard and Lady Gall.

Sir Maui Pomare, Minister of Health, will this week perform the ceremony of officially opening" the Eathboiic Maternity Home at Waipawa, and also lay the foundation stone of the new £.10,000 nurses' homo at Waipukurau.

Mr G. W. Mclntosh has been confirmed in his appointment as general manager of the National Bank of New Zealand. Mr Mclntosh was appointed acting-general manager on the death of Mr A. Jolly.

'Mr H. H. Sterling’s resignation from the railway service has been 'tendered to the Government. Mr Sterling was a member of the Railways Board, and has accepted the position of general manager of .the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company.

Mr Frank Oswald Foddy, .late of Regents Park College, London, England, and formerly of Rugby School, England, is shortly expected to join his brothers in New Zealand. This will make the fifth brother to enter. New Zealand, four of whom will reside here permanently.

Mr. W. F. C. Balham, 8.A., has been appointed and has accepted the position of French instructor on the staff of flic Whangarei Junior High School. Mr. Balham has an intimate knowledge of the French language, having been born a'nd brought up in France. He is at present on the staff of the Victoria University College, Wellington.

Among the guests staying at the Commercial Hotel is Mr A. McGregor, at one time headmaster of the Whangarei School, and now of Richmond Road, Auckland. He is accompanied by Messrs J.' Vuglar, headmaster of the Fllerslie School, J. Armstrong, late headmaster of the Devonport School, and W. H. Bartlett, who are also guests at the Commercial Hotel,

The Prihee of Wales was installed recently as Master of the St. Mary Magdalen Lodge, on the occasion for its jubilee meeting. The lodge was founded in 1875 by members of Magdalen College, Oxford, where the Prince was in residence from 1912 to 1914, and it has always been recruited from old members of the college. The death is announced at the early age of thirty-seven years, of Mr W. M. (Bob) Winks, of Hawera. He was a son of the late Mr and Mrs John Winks and was born in Hawera. He went to the Argentine some time ago and was there for about twelve months, leaving afterwards, owing to. illness, on a tour of the world and travelling to the United Kingdom. He returned to New Zealand and was for some years buyer for the Patea Freezing 'Company. ’ Amongst those at present staying at the Settlers’ Hotel are the following: —Mr and Mrs A. B. Downing, of Auckland; Mr and Mrs M. o Nolan, of Sydney, accompanied by Mr J. Sinclair, of 'Sydney; Mr M. Barclay, Inspector of Mines; Mr P. Farnworth, of New Plymouth; Mr. and Mrs W. J. Gow and son, of Auckland; Mr E. W. Marriuer, of Avondale; Mr J. Harrington, of Auckland; Miss E. R. Comer, of Christchurch, and Mr A. N. Thorne, of New South Wales.

Mr J. D. Roberts, a well known business man of Auckland, passed away yesterday at the age of 69 years. The deceased, who was born in Leicester, came to Auckland about thirty years ago. Mr Roberts was a fine type of the English gentleman of the old school, and apart from the wide respect he earned in the business world, he had many personal friends; who held him in the highest esteem. He was a keen sportsman, and was one of the best shots in the district, while he was also an active member of the Auckland Bowling Club, and a member of the Auckland Automobile Association. He was a staunch churchman, being a member of the congregation of St } Pe pulehrc’s, ami latterly of St. Andrew’s, Epsom, when he v went to live in the latter district.

A record of more than CO years’ continuous service in one office is a very uncommon achievement. Mr James Henderson, late publisher of the “Sydney Morning Herald,’’ has that distinction. Now 83 years of ago, he attended the “Herald’’ picnic on a recent Saturday, being on that occasion the oldest of the band of retired employees —all of them hale and hearty —who have served the “Herald’’ all their working days, and grown old in its service. The “Herald,’’ almost within five years of its centenary, has always been notable for the length of service of its employees, and for its successive generations of employees. There are many among those employed today with 30 years and 40 years of unbroken service, and several with records of 50 years in the office, but in the “Herald’s’’ long career there have boon only two or three records that have equalled Mr Henderson’s.