PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 9900, 20 February 1918, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Among recent arrivals in New Ze» land from Australia were Messrs, Phil . Luckio (Auckland), Waiter Reid (Wellington!, Arthur Riley (Wellington) and Frank Graham (Christchurch). The Hon. J. A. Hamui (Minister for 1 ' Education) loft- Wellington for Napier by yesterday morning s train to inspect the site for the new Napier Main (school. Later ho will proceed to Gisborne to visit a- number of the native schools in tho Hast Coast. district. Tho following have been elected members of tho Council of the Now Zealand Society of Civil Engineers for the ensuing year:—Messrs S. A. U. Mair (president), A. J. Paterson (vicepresident), F. W. Burkett (hon. secretary) C. Banks, J. Blair Mason, and W. J. Roche.

At the annual meeting of the Now Zealand Society of Engineers yesterday reference was made to tho deaths of Messrs T. S. Miller (Invercargill), W. Widdowson (Nelson). H. Metcalf, junr. (Auckland), and Tomlinson, junr. (Creymouth). The two latter lost their lives at the front. On the motion of the chairman (Mr J. Blair Mason) votes of condolence with the relatives were passed. An old Wellington identity in the person of Mr James Mackay has passed away in Scotland, in tho earlier days Mr Mackay kept a.furniture shop in Brandon street, but for many years past ho bad -boon living a- retired life. He was a well-known member at one time of the Thorndon Bowling Club, and he spent most of bis time travelling between New Zealand and the Old Country. Scotland’ was the place of bis birth.

At a meeting of the directors of the Rahui Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd., a few days ago, tho chairman. (Mr C. Kilsby), on behalf of the directors, presented Mr Vv. Barton with a case of pipes, in recognition of his services to the company as secretary. Mr Kilsby referred to the good work done by Mr Barton in his capacity of secretary, and wished him good luck and a safe return. Mr Barton, who suitably replied, will enter camp in the near future.

Mr T. McElligott, Hawkesteno crescent, has received word that his eon. Private J. McElligott, has boon awarded the Croix de Guerre. Private McElligott is now twenty-one years of ago, and went away with tho 12th Reinforcements. A brother, Sergeant T. McElligott. who distinguished himself by winning the gold medal for champion signaller in Egypt, was wounded recently. Both wore educated at the Marist Brothers’ School, Boulcott street.

The many friends in Wanganui of Mr R. M. Gatenby (says tho “Herald”), at one timo in business here as a chemist, will be interested to hear that his youngest eon, -Mr James Bronte Gatenby, 8.A., of Jesus College, has been elected to a Senior Demj-ship at Magdalen College, Oxford, for four years, to carry on research work on embryologies! and cylological problems. Air Gatenby, ■who is connected with the Bronte family, is a New Zealander, and was educated at St. Patrick’s College, Wellington, aond won an exhibition in zoology at Jesus College. Ho 'was placed in the first class in the ; Final Honour School in Zoology in 1916, and has been acting as demonstrator in zoology and histology in the University laboratories for the University Medical School.

Tho Minister for Justice (tho Hon. T. M. Wilford) has appointed Mr Edvard D. • Mosley, barrister ■ and-.solici-tor, of Christchurch, to bo one of the two relieving stipendiary magistrates whom Cabinet recently authorised him to appoint. Mr Mosley joined the Justice Department as a cadet in 1803. Ho was then transferred to Dunedin, and served there, and afterwards at Christchurch. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1809, having qualified in 1897. He had charge of tho Police Court at Dunedin under Mr Carcw and Mr Graham. In 1 1002 ha was clerk of the Magistrate’s and Warden’s Courts at Cromwell, during the dredging boom., and also held the positions/ of mining registrar and receiver of gold revenue. In 1904, at West-' port, he was clerk of the District, Magistrate’s, and Warden’s Courts, receiver of gold and land revenue, and mining registrar. In 1907 ho retired from the Government service, and entered into practice as a barrister—his firm being known as Smithson andi Mosley—and has had considerable practice in the Supreme Court and the Magistrate’s Court in Christchurch for the last ton or eleven years. His experience of courts and practice during the last twenty-five years has. been one of the widest.

Mr William Chamberlain, a wellknown resident of the Ellesmere (Canterbury) district, who died on Thursday, was bom in Devonshire .in 1849. After some experience of farming in Englanr, Mr Chamberlain came- to New Zealand' in the ship Loch Fleet in 1877. Within a month of his-arri-val he purchased the first portion of “Hadstock,” Ellesmere, and gradually added to it. Mr Chamberlain took a ,

great interest in the export of frozen mutton, and as far back as 1883 exported a line of sheep on his own account. In 1878 he founded his shorthorn herd with a cow bred hy Mr John Deans, and for many years his animals occupied prominent positions at tile various shows. Mr Chamberlain waa always a strong supporter of modern agricultural machinery. In 1881 (reports the ‘“Press”) he was the first to drill turnips in the district, and in 1884 the first public trial of a manure, drill for mangolds, turnips, and manure was held on his farm. . That, drill was his own invention. In 1883 he introduced the first traction engine used in the Ellesmere district. Mr Chamberlain always took an active interest in educational and volunteer matters. He helped to form the Ellesmere Mounted Rifle*, and granted the Education Board an acre and a half of land whereon to build the local school and was chairman of the school committeo for many years.