PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10687, 6 September 1920, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Mr R. Northie, of Auckland, passed through Wellington last week pn his way to Christchurch.

Mr ,J, M: Cameron (Wellington) and Mr A. Pearson (Wellington) are visitors to Christchurch.

Mr W. Gordon of New York, who was in Wellington the other day,.is now visiting the South Island cities.

Mr J. P.'Ridings, Collector of Customs. Auckland, ■ and well known in Wellington, is confined • to his bed through influenza.

Messrs Joseph Barugh arid J. E. Makgill have been re-elected unopposed, to the directorate of the Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Company. Mr W. E. Gladstone, deputy-regis-trar of births, deaths, and marriages at Wellington, who has' been seriously ill at the Wellington Hospital, is reported to be improving. Colonel H. R. .Potter, formerly of Trentham Camp, officer commanding the Auckland military district, is at present, engaged upon an inspectional visit of sub-districts.

Colonel V. S. Smyth, at one time officer commanding the Canterbury military district, has taken up duty as a physical instructor in Canterbury.

• Mr J .C. Taylor, who has held the position of Waipawa district coroner for the past sixteen years, has resigned his position owing to failing eyesight Mr W. Hutchens. Mus.B., who has been associated with musical matters in Hawera for many years, left with his wife arid family recently, en route to England. • . ,

Captain M. 0. Grainger, Mabarahara, -who for the past nine weeks has been,. a.patient of Trentham Military Hospital for the treatment of old active service wounds, has returned to his home.

The many friends in Wellington _of Lieut.-Cdlonel D. Cossgrove, Dominion Chief Scout, will regret to, learn that he has suffered a relapse during the past two or three davs, and his condition is-' reported to be very low.

- Mr R, W. de Montalk has been elected by the New Zealand Institute of Architects (Wellington branch) as representative to the Board of Xfade in the matters of building permits and supplies. ■, • ■ .

' Major H. D. Gillies (late R.A.M.C.), has beeni in the United States lecturing on ‘facial surgery. It will be remembered that he did very valuable work at (Sidcup; Hospital, where a speciality Was made 'Of treating Jaw cases. ‘

Mr W. G. Sutton, who has been manager of the Crystal Palace, Christ; church, and who has accepted an engagement in South Africa, has left for Sydney. It-is reported that the new manager of Crystal Palace will be an ex-member of Parliament—Mr J. Robertson, 'fornlcrly of Otaki.

Mr M. Mirfin, who was a member of the staff of-the Palmerston'Northbranch of the Bank of New South Wales for, some time prior to the war, and who. on his return _ from a lengthy period •of active service, was again stationed in Palmerston North,' has been transferred to the Oamaru branch.

The commercial staff of the Christchurch ‘‘Press” presented Mr J. A. Jewell, one of its members, with a case of pipes, as a token of their , esteem, and as an expression of “good wishes. Mr .Jewell is joining the Goldberg Advertising Agency, as manager of that agency, s activities in the South Island.

Mr H. G. Watson was met by the staff and a number of clients of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., in Napier, and presented with a purse of money, the occasion being his resignation' from the position- of accountant to the company to take up. a position with the Nation, ol Mutual Life Association at Napier.

A very largo gathering of Post and Telegraph officials met at the New Plymouth Post Office to bid farewell to Mr C. H. Burton, chief postmaster, who is retiring, and a presentation was made by Mr H. E. Foofces, superintendent, on behalf of the whole of the district, of a gold chain ond pendant as a token of respect and good wishes.

Dr. Clifford 51. Stubbs,, a graduate of Canterbury College, is revisiting Christchurch, after an absence of tpn years, six- of which, he has spent ,as professor of chemistry at the Christian University of . Western China. Dr. Stubbs graduated M.A. at Canterbury College in 1910, afterwards proceeding to Liverpool University, where he obtained the degree of D.Sc. Dr. Cohn C. Anderson, Napier, who graduated at Otago University in February, 1919, loft for England by, the Port Denison as' ship’s surgeon last week. He proposes to take the re-rocehtly-instituted diploma in medical radiology and electro-therapeutics at Cambridge,, and afterwards to do postgraduate work in X-ray and dermatology at Liverpool and Manchester.

Mr George Andrews, ox-member of the Christchurch City Council, who died the other day, was'born at Fownhope, Herefordshire, on March 9th, 1862. He arrived in the Dominion by the Geraldine P.iget in 1874, having missed his passage in the ill-fated ship Cospatrick, which was burned at sea. Mr Andrea’s was well known in commercial circles throughout the Dominion. • ' ' '

At the Chief Post Office,_ Christchurch, tho staff of the Chief Post Office end the permanent postmasters and staff of the offices in the Canterbury district, presented Mr J. G. Rule, assistant-chief postmaster, who is retiring on ' superannuation after 44 years’ service, with two fine Morris chairs. Mr R. D. Kelly, the new_ chief postmaster, made the presentation.

Lieut Hugh B. Anderson. R& T ., the youngest son of Mr and Mrs Andrew* Anderson, St. Martins, Christchurch, is returning home by the lonic, due in a fortnight. Lieut. Anderson _ left New Zealand to enter Osborne in 1907, and was on H.M.S. New Zealand in the Heligoland fight during tho great war. Soon after, he was appointed to the Lowestoft, a fast light cruiser, and was in her in the Dogger Bank fight;

Let Stanton, Ltd., show you round tho city and suburbs. Open and closed-in cars; ' reliable chauffeurs. Use 'phone 2240. Under Vice-Regal patronage. i *

Mr J. Clarke, Mayor of New Ply* mouth, is a visitor to Wellington.

Mr Brewster, of Franklin, has been appointed engineer to the Akitio County Council.

Mr W. Noble, of Masterton, has been admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

Mr Alexander Macintosh, who has been absent for the past 12 months m Australia, has returned to Welling, ton on a visit.

Mr A. B. Wanty, Christchurch, advertising manager for Gordon' and Gotch, Ltd., is relinquishing his position to join the merchandise department of Armour and C0.,-of Australasia, Ltd.

Sir Arnold Gridley, K.8.E., is leaving Wellington on Monday night foe Invercargill, Queenstown, Dunedin, etc. He returns to Wellington on September loth, and sails for Australia and England on September 23rd.

The Rev. D. McCosh, M.A., T.C.D., who has just arrived from Ireland, is on© of the ministers brought to New Zealand under the auspices of tho Presbyterian Church, and is the second minister to arrive in of the scheme which the Rev. Dr Gibb went'Ho.ae to carry out. j ,

News has been received by cable of the death in England of Mr Edward Noel Barraud, formerly-senior partner in the firm of Barraud and Abraham,, of Palmerston North, a noted artist in water colours, and one of the foupdeM of the Wellington Art Society. The late Mr Barraud was the son of the late Mr C. D. Barraud, one of the host-known figures in early Wellington! ■society. He was born in 1857 in Wei-’ lington, and in his younger days waal prominent in athletics, a member of: the Star Boating Club and of D.Bat-; tery (New Zealand Artillery). ■ During the war he was engaged in war Work in London, and was contemplating return to New Zealand by the Rimutakai when<illness seized him, ending fatally. He leaves a widow, who was with him at the time of his death, a son, Mr Arnold Barraud, of Palmerston Ncith, and a daughter, Mrs Fran# Rochefort, of Te Kuiti.