PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10523, 26 February 1920, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Mr Harold AV. Brown, of Wellington# is on a visit-to Auckland.

Mr Noel Storrier Johnson was admits ted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court yesterday.

Mr R.'B. Haybittle, an old resident of Wellington-,- celebrated his 96th birthday yesterday. He is still in excellent health. . ,

Mr Edward Eandell, who retired from, the Band Tax Department some years ago on account of his health, is lying very ill at his residence at Karori.

Mr I?. Sprague, assistant clerk to the Ohinemuri County Council, has been appointed clerk and treasurer to Thames Valley Power Board at .£4OO per annum.

Messrs S. E. Ridley (Port Chalmers) and A. N. Silcock (Ashburton) have been appointed first and second assistant engineers at the Ashburton powerhouse.

The AVellington Accountant Students* Society is losing the services of one of its committeemen, Mr W, L. Dunn, who is shortly leaving AYellington.

At a large and representative meeting of the Lansdowne Presbyterian congrega-, tion, it was decided by a large majority to extend a call to the Rev. J. Thom-’ son Mackay, of Auckland. i

On the motion of Mr H. K. Me-. Dougall, Mr A. S. Paterson was admit-i ted- as a barrister and solicitor of tier Supreme Court at Christchurch by hia Honour Mr Justice Herdman.

Mr B. C. Airey, senior draughtsman' in the_Auckiand Lands and Survey Office.) Fas been promoted to a similar position; in the head office of the department at Wellington.

Mrs A. M. Fraser has been appointed* matron, and Misses Comer and Miss Richardson sub-matrons, of the Christ-' church Girls’ High. School boarding 1 house. - .

After undergoing a serious operation) in the Christchurch Hospital about a month ago, the Rev, J. ■ Harris, of the Springston Methodist Circuit, is now; well enough to return home.

General regret will be expressed at tha news that Mr C. I. Harkness, son of Mr J. G. Harkness (chairman of the Web lington Harbour Board), is lying seriously ill pf tetanus. 1

The chairman (Sir George FenwiokX) and the manager (Mr W.. H. Atack) of) the "United Press' Association, have been.) appointed to represent that body at tha World Press Congress to be held in 6yd-v ney in October next. 1

Dr Louis D. Cohen, of Palmerston: North, has left en route for India, whori' he will spend some months in eye-worl( in a large ophthalmic clinic. He expect* to return to -New, Zealand in about sin mouths

Mr A- B. Sandford, who has been accountant of the Union Bank of 1 lia, Ltd., Auckland, for seven years, has been appointed manager at Feilding. Mr, J-. H., .Baxter, of. .Wanganui, . fills tW vacancy, in, Auckland. .

Mr C. Hobbs has temporarily assumed, the duties of secretary of tho Wellington Tramways Union, having taken the place of Mr J. Hutchison, who has resigned. It is understood applications are being invited for a now secretary.

At the meeting of the OtaKi Bulb Society (writes our. correspondent) the secretary was instructed to writ© to Major Addington thanking him for the great interest he had displayed in the society, and to wish him a pleasant trip l to England.

-Sir Joseph Ward and Lady Ward leave for Christchurch to-day (states a Press Association message from Invercargill) and proceed to Wellington on Friday. They will probably leave for Australia within a few day's to spend a month with friends in the Commonwealth.

Mr R.- J. F. Aldricli, secretary of the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association, was at an executive meeting of the N.Z, Returned Soldiery’ Association appointed as the association’s repreeenta-, live on the Gratuities Anomalies Com-, mittce.

Captain R. Sellar, who before the irafresided at Hawora, is at present in Auckland. He recently returned to, the Dominion after five years’ active service, the latter portion _of this tiine being spent in Mesopotamia as staff-captain, of the 18th Indian Divisional Artillery.

His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner (Mr R. W. Dalton), who has been on an ©facial visit to tho United Kingdom, and Airs Dalton have arrived in Sydney, and expect to reach Auckland about March 14th. Mr Tlal'ton is accompanied by Captain Baynes, his assistant, and Mr* Baynes. * ■

Mr L. D.. Cotterill was admitted at Christchurch ns a barrister and of the'Supreme Court, by his Honour Mr Justice Herdman, on the motion of Mr A. P. Wright. Mr J. A. Fraser, Assistant' - District Land Registrar at 'Chris'tcKurch, was admitted as a solicitor. :

In acknowledging the congratulation*, of the Red Gross Executive upon hi* knighthood, Sir Robert Heaton Rhodes,; in a letter, to the Red Cross Executive, ’ said that the honour was conferred upon; him as head of the New Zealand branch,! of the Red Cross in England, and must, be regarded as a recognition of the great' work of the vrhole of the New ZealandRed Gross throughout the period of th*\ War.

The Board of Governors of Canterbury College has reappointed the following lecturers and assistant ‘ lecturers for tha year 1920: —Messrs T. A. Murphy, Lecturer on Jurisprudence and Law; J. E. Purchase, Lecturer on Education; J. Morrison, Assistant Lecturer on Accountancy; T. IV. Rowe, Assistant Lecturer on Law; T. IV. Cane, Assistant to Professors of Classics and English; Dr J. C. Bradshaw, Lecturer on Music.

Several admissions to the Supreme Court of solicitors and barristers were made bv Mr Justice Cooper at Auckland on Tuesday. Messrs Israel Joseph Goldstine, Reginald Henry Qreville, Robert Mclntosh Grant/ Alfred T, O’Donnell, and Robert Hector Mackay were admitted as solicitors. Edgar Llewellyn Bartlett, Charles Jackson Garland, and Frederick Coles Jordan were admitted «s barristers. ,

Mr Arthur Fair, of Wellington, who was for- many years with Messrs Chapman, Skerrett, Tripp, and Blair, has resumed practice as a barrister and solicitor in 'tho King’s Chambers. Willis street, city. Mr Fair was in -England at the outbreak of the war, and joined •thV f Intis - of Court' 0.T.C., from which he was given - a commission in the Suffolk Regiment. Ho served with the sth Battalion for three and a half years in Egypt, Syria, - and Palestine, took_ part in all its engagements, and was with it during its advance from Kan'tara (on tho banks of the Suez Canal) to Beyreut, and. was awarded the- Military Cross, He returned to Xew Zealand last October by .the Adolph Woermann...

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