PERSONAL

Northern Advocate, 16 February 1926, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Mayor, Mr. J. E. Holmes, left by train today for Invercargill and ho expects to be absent for about three weeks.

Mr. W. MeAra, from Auckland, has taken up his duties as secretary of the Whangarei Y.M;C.A., vice Mr, B. Whiting. The death is reported by cable from London of Mrs. Caffyn, the novelist who wrote under the name of “Tota. ” She lived years in Australia. An Australian cablegram reports the arrival in Fremantle of Bishop Thompson, -the New Zealand theosophist. He is a passenger on the Otranto.

A London cable states that Cambridge University has conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Science on Sir ' Edgeworth David, of Australia.

Mr. S. I. Crookes, consulting electrical engineer of Auckland, is in Whangarei. He waited upon the Borough Council, in committee, last evening relative to thc-borough electricity supply. A London message says that Mr. H. A. Fisher, member of the House of Commons, has resigned his seat owing to the calls on his time as Warden of New College, Oxford, a position to which he was recently appointed.

Mr. Edward Caradus, first assistant at Nelson College, and Mr William Tremere Foster, French master at the Auckland Grammar School, have been appointed inspectors of secondary schools.

t Mr. Fred Earl, of Auckland, has been appointed Arbitrator for the Whangarei Racing Club and Mr. R. H. Harrison for the Whangarei Borough Council in the assessment of rent for Kensington Park to be payable by the club.

‘ Mr. G. H. Scott, president of the New Zealand Association of British Manufacturers and Agents, left Wellington on Tuesday last on an extended visit to the Old Country. At the annual meeting of the association, - Mr. Scott was presented by members of the association with a Prince rug.

Dr. Tillyard, of Nelson, left for Vancouver by the Aorangi last Tuesday. l)Tc will be away about nine months, visiting America and Europe, where he intends to carry out certain researches on problem's affecting New Zealand, particularly the control of the blackberry earwig and the spruce aphis.

Sir. Francis Bell leaves New Zealand on March 16 for England.— He will go to Geneva to attend the League of Nations Assembly as representative for New Zealand. Mr J. S. Hunter, official secretary to the Minister ,of Railways, will accompany Sir Francis as his secretary.

A well known and respected resident of Wellington, in the person of Mr Richard Brown, died on Monday afternoon. Deceased, who had a # bookselling business in Willis street, was an elder in St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, and for a period clerk of session. He took a keen interest in histrionic art. ‘

There is a possibility that Mr. F. J. Ricketts, conductor of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders ’ -Band, and a noted composer under the name of Alford, will return after the Dunedin Exhibition to settle in New Zealand (says a Dunedin telegram). “The Dominion appeals to me very greatly,” he told a reporter, “and I think I will come back to live in some part of it. The baud is to go abroad on its return home; and I intended to leave its service in, any case.”

Lady 'Mcßobert, of Oawnpore, India, widow of the late Sir Alexander MaeEobert, who was for many years a member of the Legislative Council of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, arrived in Auckland by the Aorangi in company with her young son, Sir Alasdair Maeßobert. Lady MaeEobert who intends to remain a few weeks in the Dominion, pioneered the movement for providing sanitary dwellings for factory workers in India, and travelled extensively, including a triple New -Zealand.

The death of Mr Nicholas Meuli occurred at his home ,at Carlton Terrace, Wanganui, early on Friday morning. The deceased gentleman, who -had attained the age of 70 years, was a native of Switzerland, and arrived in Wanganui in the year he entered into business as a builder on his own account, and gradually became one of the foremost contractors in - the. district. Mf Meuli keenly interested himself in local affairs, and for many years was a member of the Licensing Committee and the Harbour Board.'

Hale and hearty, Mr Andrew McLean celebrated his <9Oth birthday at his home at Papakura. Mr McLean left Greenock on December 7th, 1864, by the ship Viola (Captain Alex Mitchell), reaching Auckland on March the following year. On arrival the passengers were taken to -Clevedon in cutters up the Wairoa river. Mr McLean relates that those were days when navigation was a little ''bit difficult, the cutter on which the family landed being stuck on the sandspit for two days. With others of the new arrivals, Mr McLean went to the Thames goldfields, but after four months in the rush returned to Clevedoh, where he followed his occupation of carpenter. After spending some years at Clevedon, Mr McLean went to Papakura, where for the last thirtysix years he has resided. Mr McLean tells some interesting stories of early colonial life before the railway went through Papakura, when, they often had to walk from the Wairoa to Auckland for provisions.