PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10641, 14 July 1920, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Mi- F. Earl, K.C., of Auckland, h at present on a visit to Wellington.

Dr H. D. Bamford, of Auckland, has been on a visit to this city.

The Rev. John Watt, of Christchurch, has left to take charge of the Wanganui East Presbyterian Church.

Mr Ashly Atkinson,' of Kowhai Bush, North Canterbury, is visiting AVellington at present.

The death has occurred of Mr Albert Vine, a member of the Harbour Board staff, who,was prominent in Spiritualist circles in Wellington.

Mr George Hamilton Scott has been elected a member of tire Wellington Central Chamber of Commerce.

Mr Claude Oswald Pratt has beet appointed clerk of the Court at Marlon and Bulls, and Registrar of Elcc tors for the Rangitikci electorate.

The Hon B. Mitchelson, M.L.C., lias arrived in Wellington to take his seat in the Legislative Council, to which ho was recently appointed.

Mr K. G. Archer, accountant at the Auckland hiauch of the Standard Insurance Company, has been appointed manager of the New Plymouth branch.

At yesterday’s conference of the Dominion School Committees? Associa-'’ tion, Mr S. G. Smith, M.P., Taranaki, was elected president.

Messrs Albert Bruce and N. A. Ferguson, of Thames, are at present on a short visit to Wellington. Both are staying at the Empire Hotel.

Mr P. W. Lamb, who has been clerk to the Fohangina County Council for over four years, has resigned from his position. '

Mr Robert Archibald Elliott, whose pioneering work in .the Fortrose (Otago) district was largely responsible for the survival of tho little seaport township, has died at Fortrose.

Mr E. Prendcville has severed his connection with the Railway Department to join the staff of the Public Trust office. He has been the recipient of a suitcase from the staff ol the chief accountant’s department.

Mr Peter McLean, accountant at the National Bank,of New Zealand at Napier, has received notice of his promotion to tho managership of tho new branch of the bank opening up at Dannevirke.

Mr A. J. Foley, who has been acting as secretary pro. tem. of the Dunedin Investigation Tribunal, has resigned, and Mr D. Colquhoun has been appointed permanently to tho position.

The Rev. Dr Liston, Coadjutor Bishop of Auckland, has left on a trip to Sydney. Dr Liston will return to Dunedin nest month for the consecration ceremony in connection with his new appointment.

Mr E. R. Godward, who left Invergill close on four years ago in connection with an invention for economising in the use of petrol in motor-cars, etc., nas returned. During hio absence he visited England and America.

Mr R. H. Wynyard, of Auckland, is at present in Wellington. His many friends in this city will be pleased to learn that h© has recovered from_ hig recent accident by which ho sustained injuries to his knee. Mr Wynyard is staying at the Empire.

Mr D. R. Caldwell, a former resident of Wellington, who contemplates a rather lengthy absence from the Dominion, has resigned from the directorate of the Auckland. Farmers’ Cooperative Auctioneering Company, Ltd.

Mr ■ William Steedman, a wellknown resident of To Aroha, who has relations and friends in Wellington/ died the other day after a very short illness. Mr Steedman was at one time clerk to the Waitoa Drainage Board, and until a year ago was farming in th© Waihou district. Latterly he had resided in Te Aroha, and had contemplated returning to Scotland. He leave* a widow and two young children.

The New Zealand candidates su» cessful in the recent examination -oi the Royal .College of Edinburgh, were;—Cyril Victor Baigent, M. 8., Ch.B., University of New Zealand (Nelson); William Henry Johnston, M. 8., Ch.B., M.D., University of Edinburgh, Captain, R.AJVI.C. (Wellington); Frederick Montgomery Spencer, M. 8., Ch.B., University of New Zealand; Claude Bartley Tudehope, M. 8., Ch.B., University of Edinburgh (Auckland).

“I feci I cannot resume my seat without referring to the passing recently of an old and esteemed ' comrade whom we have for yeans past been accustomed to meet her© as a representative,” said tho president of the Trotting Conference, in his annual address yesterday. ‘T refer to the late Mr John Glen, whoso name was a. household word in Nelson, where ha acted for many years as secretary of both the Jockey Club and the Trotting Club, ns well as for other bodies in that district. I now move a resolution of sympathy with the relatives'of the deceased gentleman, and that it be recorded in the minutes of ' this conference.” At an early hour yesteTday morning the funeral took place, at Karori cemetery, of the late Sir G. B. Bullock, Dominion Superintendent for the New Zealand Shipping Company, Ltd. The interment was of a private nature, except for the pall-hearers, who were Messrs Eirio Bullock, son of the deceased,' G. Callender (secretary), C. Turrell (local manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company) W. A. Kennedy (local manager of the Union Steam Ship Company), J. Findlay (New Zealand representative of tho Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company), J R. Rooper (representing the Cunard Lino, N.Z.), W. Wallis (representing the Federal Line), and R. Tnggs (Public Trust). Messrs Tnggs, Hooper, Wallis, and Findlay, members of the New Zealand Overseas Shipowners’ Committee, represented that body, of which the late Mr Bullock was a .member A service at tho crematorium was conducted by the Rev. .1. Edwin Jones, vicar of St. Luke’s, Wades town. Regular auction sales of motor-cans bv Stanton’s, Ltd.. 15. Molesworth street, will bo hold at their garage. Entries are now being taken ’Phone 2240. " ,