PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10639, 12 July 1920, Page 3

PERSONALIA

The Hon. R. L. D. Rankine, CM.G-., arrived by the Tahiti from Vancouver, en route to Britain.

Mr Harold G. Miller, M.A., New Zealand Rhodee scholar, expects to leave for England next month..

The Rev. B. A. Macdonald, after eight years' charge of the Warkworth Anglican parish, has taken up duty as vicar at Paparoa.

Mr Justice Salmond sat in Auckland ais judge for the first time on Saturday, when he heard undefended divorce petitions at the Supreme Court.

Major-General Sir A. H. Ruesell, president of the National Defence League of New Zealand, returned to Hastings on Saturday.

The Rev. R. H. Catherwood, of Feathereton, has received a unanimous call from the Evans Bay Presbyterian congregation.

Mr G. B. Bullock, Dominion Superintendent of the New Zealand Shipping Company, who has been eeriously ill, was reported to be improving yesterday.

Mr J. F. Hosking was re-elected unopposed ae the representative on the Auckland University College Council of the members of the General Assembly.

Messrs A. L. Perfect and S. R. Little, Admiralty Surveyors, who have recently made a naval survej of Fanning Island, have arrived in New Zealand.

Mr H. A. Parker, of Sydney, and formerly.of Wellington, ex-tennis champion of New Zealand, arrived from Lyttelton by the ferry steamer Wahine yesterday.

Councillor F. H. Futter, who wan recently elected a member of the Makara County Council, was welcomed by the chairman (Mr E. Windley) and other councillors on taking his seat for the first time.

Captain M. Huggett, for many years 'a Customs nightwatebman, and earlier master of the mission eteamer Southern Cross, wh» recently retired on superannuation was presented with an armchair by h'.s colleagues.

Mr Walter V. Hobbs, representing Chappell and Co., Ltd., arrived by the Maheno on Wednesday, and is now arranging the itinerary of the. forthcom-,' ing tour of New Zealand of Miss Amy Evans and Mr Fraser. Gauge.

The Right Rev. Dr Listen, for a number of years rector of the Holy Cross College, Mosgiel, who has been appointed coadjutor to the Bishop of Auckland, was entertained by the Roman Catholic community of Dunedin, and presented with an address and cheque for £6lO.

The vacancy in the "Hansard" 6taS caused by the death of Mr Robert Thomson has been filled by the appointment of Mr J. T. Watkins, who was for several years in the Mines Department, and subsequently acted ae secretary of the National Efficiency Board. •

The Hon..P. J.' Nerheny, M.L.C 4 was congratulated ■by the Auckland City Council (of which he is a member) upon his - appointment to the Upper House. The Mayor (Mr J. H. Gunßon) said Mr Nerheny had peculiar qualifications to serve his country, for he had served the citizens long and faithfully.

I The Government) has decided to appoint Mr A. JT. Ellis (of the Pacific I Phosphate Company), Auckland, to be the New Zealand Commissioner of Nauru Island, under the agreement made in 1919, by which three Commissioners are to be appointed to represent Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand.

News was received by mail of tha death in London of Mr William McCutcheon, a former resident of Ponsbnby, who was for some years with .the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., and subsequently accountant and secretary to T. and S. Morrin, Ltd. He left for England prior to the war to start business there on his own account, and he was in business when he died.

Mr L. Heyward, who died at the residence of his son, in South street, Petone," was born in Guernsey, and came to New Zealand by the Inchiman sixty-four years ago. He resided in Wellington up to five years ago, when he'went to stay with his eons in Petone. He leaves a widow, two sons (Messrs W. L. and H. G. Heyward, of Petone), and a daughter, Mrs Ward, of Koro Koro. The deceased was seventy-three years of age.

Regular auction sales of motor-cars by Stanton's, Ltd., 15, Molesworth street, will be held at their garige. Entries are now being taken. 'Phone 2240