PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24531, 13 March 1943, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. .Rupert Worley returned from '! Wellington yesterday. .Mr. H. T. Morton, Mayor of fa Kuiti, is visiting Auckland. The Hon. H. G. 11. Mason, Minister of Education, returned to last night. — —~ Captain M. W. Vaumund, of the Norwegian Shipping and Trade His.' sion, is at the Station Hotel. Mr. J. W. Heenan, Under-Secretary % of the Department of Internal#Affairs and Mr. C. A. Furlong, of the same - department, returned south last night, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Friday ' j The Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall. and Lady Newall left Wellington, this morning for New Plymouth, Their Excellencies will return to Well, ington on Sunday afternoon. RETURNED SOLDIERS PRESIDENT TO RETIRE ' . Re-election as president of the Auckland Returned Services Association will not be sought by .Mr. J. y Kendall, who has served for a long term and whose health is now indifferent. A motion of app'rbciation of his services was passed at an executive meeting. Two candidates for the posi- 4 tion so far announced are Messrs/ A. P. Postlewaite and 1). \Y. Rutledg e , The former is a vice-president and has had many years oi executive service, Mr. Rutledge, formerly well known ie the K.S.A. affairs of the Mangoniii County, has been a member of the Auckland executive for .several year*, OBITUARY MR. H. J. CLIFTON The death has occurred iu Auckland in his 72nd year of Mr. Herbert James Clifton, who was believed to be the oldest commercial traveller in the province. He was a past president of the Auckland Commercial Travellers and Warehousemen's Association and for 4o years ho had represented business houses. Mr. Clifton is survived by his wife, two eons and three daughters, and there are seven grandchildren. MR. T. McFARLANE

The death lias occurred at the age of 69 years of Mr. Thomas McFarlane, a well-known engineer and surveyor. Horn and educated in Scotland, Mr. McFarlane followed his profession in the Auckland Province* He first joined the maintenance division of the railways in 1890, resigning in 1896 to take up private practice us a mirw and land surveyor. In ,1907 he joined the engineering sitaff of the Auckland City Council and assumed charge of its survey work. Two years later he tran»ferred to the Auckland and Suburban Drainage Board. Subsequently he was again in private practice and acted for a period as engineer to the Coromaudel and Bay of Islands County Councils. After joining the Public Works Department in 1920. Mr. McFarlane supervised the construction of many important works. He retired from the department in 1940 and for a time acted as assistant-engineer t0... the Franklin County Council. He is survived by three sorts and one daughter. MR. T. DOBSON (0.C.) WHANGAREI, Friday A resident in Whangarei since 1908, Mr. Thomas Dobson died yesterday at the age of 77. He came from Cumberland with his wife and five children (o Whangarei. He was organist and choir- , master for 17 years at C'arrigill Church, England, and held a similar position for a long period at the Whangarei Methodist Church." Three sons and a daughter survive him. MRS. P. LITTLE WO OI) (0.C.) HUNTLY, tridaj

The death has occurred at the Wai« kato Hospital, Hamilton, of a former old resident of Himtly, .Mrs, Agnei Caldwell Littlewood, wife of llr. Frederick Littlewood. Mrs. Littlewood was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, 56 years ago and was the second daughter of the late -Mr. and Mrs. John Shaw. With her parents, she came to New Zealand in 1898 and resided at Himtly. She w« married to Mr. Littlewood in 1909, and tilth' lived at Taupiri for a number years. Mr. and Mrs. Littlewood then resided at Tuakau for 18 years befoff coining to Huntly a ; , vear ago. Mn. Littlewood is survived ov her husband, three sons and one daughter. There &R seven grandchildren. ENGINEERS' INSTITUTE For 25 years secretary of the AucV land branch of the New Zealand Institute of Marine and Power Engineer Mr. D. H. Sturrock has retired. For many years he was principal of t« Sturrock Engineering School. H& has been succeeded by Mr. A. R. Dotiglu. formerly in the service of' the Unwt Steam Ship Company, and in recenJ years a senior engineer on the staff C; the Westfield Freezing Company. AUCKLANDER IN TOKIO News of her brother, Captain Stanley Cottrill, has been received by M fS - f 11. Lundon, of Mount Hoskill, ior tM first time for nearly 13 months. Captain Cottrill had sent a brief message by radio from Tokio to his wife in Australia, saving that he was well. At the fall of Singapore, CaptMj Cottrill was officer in charge ot to Singapore Boys' Home, which ** under the care of the Salvation ArmfHe was also conducting a mobile cmteen. His wife and young son w evacuated to Sydney, out Captain Wt trill felt ho should remain. He was * one time emploved on the clerical sta of Thompson and Hills. Limited. ho is the onlv son of Colonel Cottrill. a former divisional commander of the Salvation Army in Aucklan • WAIPOUA NATIVE LANDS Tho boundaries of the small portions of the Wnipoua State forest area sp! remaining in native ownership hat been determined as tho result ot recent sitting of the Native Court in a -Maori settlement thel' • Other outstanding matters relating the lands, including consolidation, w®, also dealt with. The settlement is one, the most isolated in North Auckland ami has never had a school. As t . are now nearly 20 children of sim-aM a"'o, ihe •Maoris are most anxious obtain one. While the Court Ava ;.. ting, they expressed a wish to proi, site for a native village schoo «nd > section of three acres was selectic , set apart by Court order.