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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11824, 29 November 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)

j It is with much regret that we have to ('announce the resignation of Mr. James Rusi sell of his position as a director of the New 1 Zealand Insurance Company, owing to his intended departure for London to take up /his residence there for a time. Mr. Russell has for a period of 13 years been a director of the company, and has rendered excellent service to the shareholders, who will join in the regret that has been expressed by his colleagues at his retirement. We understand that Mr. A. M. Myers, managing director of the Campbell and Ehrenfried Company, has accepted the vacant seat on the Board. His firm has long been associated with the New Zealand Insurance Company, as Dr. Campbell was for «i considerable period the chairman of the latter institution, but retired through advancing years about eighteen months ago. In Mr. A. M. Myers the company has secured the services of an excellent business man, who has large interests in Auckland and the colony. On Saturday, Nov. 16, a pleasing incideat transpired at Messrs. A. J. Entrican and L'o.'s warehouse, when Mr. Fred. Boyce, who has been associated with the firm's staff for some years past, was the recipient of a presentation from his fellow employees on the occasion of his approaching marriage. The table of New Zealand's .annual drink bill, compiled by the Rev. Edward Walker, and published in the Wellington papers, gives the ligures since the last return issued in 1896. The total amount has increased in the four intervening years from £2,265,900 to £2,747,170, and there has been an increase from £2 19s s£d to £3 8s 4-£ d per head of population. Mi-. Walker attributes the increase to continued general prosperity and effects inseparable from a period of war. Mr. W. P. Watson, the general manager of the New Zealand Coal and Oil Company, has received from the Government a bonus of £5000 for the,first 100,000 gallons of oil produced from shale. The oil was the result of operations at Orepuki. Messrs. A. Buckland and Sons held an important sale of pedigree stock on Nov. 18 at Bleak House, Howick, comprising the Maclean herd of pedigree shorthorn and Hereford cattle. Mr. J. S. Buckland acted as auctioneer, and the sale was a good one, high prices being realised. There was a large attendance of buyers, and the majority of the choice lots went to Northern breeders. Elaborate plans for the laying out of Cornwall Park are being prepared by Mr. Austin Strong, who has large experience of work of the kind. The desire of the trustees is to secure complete plans so that whenever funds are available a portion of the work can be carried out, but always to form part of a general scheme, so that no money can be frittered away on temporary improvements which are liable to be upset on the adoption of any subsequent improvement scheme. For this purpose they brought Mr. Strong from New York, and before he leaves the city he will hand to the trustees completed plans of his scheme, which will remain as a guide for the laying out of the park in future years, whoever may happen to be the trustees of this beautiful pleasureground so generously gifted by Dr. CampI bell to the people of New Zealand.