PERSONAL ITEMS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 2 December 1927, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr , Victor Griffiths, Deputy-Mayor, was elect6d unopposed to the vacancy caused by the death of the late Mayor of New Plymouth, Mr Wilson. —Press Association.* Canon F. W. Young, - vicar of All Saints’ Parish, Ponsonby, Auckland, for the past nine years, was presented this week, with a'cheque, given by his parishioners on the occasion of his retirement,' He will be succeeded by the Rev. Walter Averill, son of Archbishop Averill. Professor E. J. Iddings, Dean of Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Experimental Station of the, University of Idaho, United States, arrived at Auckland by the Ulimnroa from Sydney this week. New Zealand is his last place of call in a world tour spent in the inspection of farming research institutions. A Reefton Press Association telegram reports the, death of Mr Richard Wills, head of the firm of J. Wills and Co., merchants, a prominent citizen and mining investor. Mr H. A. Gilbert, of the literary staff of the Christchurch “Sun,”' and Mrs Gilbert are on a short holiday to Nelson. They have motored up the East Coast and are returning via the West Coast route, including the Franz Josef Glacier. Mr P. J. Gallagher, of the Nelson office of the Public Trust, has been transferred to Hamilton. He has been succeeded by Mr R. W. Hope, of Palmerston North, the well-known cricketer. His Honour Mr Justice Fraser (President/ and Messrs J. Montioth and W. Scott (assessors), and J. A. Gilmcur (Registrar) of the Arbitration Court, arrived in Nelson from Westport last evening. ? Mr P. J. O’Regan rffid Mr C. H. Treadwell, of Wellington, were in Nelson to-day in connection with Arbitration Court business.