PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10717, 11 October 1920, Page 3

PERSONALIA

The Governor-General, Viscount Jellieoe, will present the prizes won at the Sunday School examinations. Air W. R. Douglas, Senior Inspector of Alachinory, has retired on superannuation. Sergeant McGregor, of the Cen. tral Police Station, has been transferred to Timaru. , Air G. W. Barltrop, accountant in the head office of the Government Insurance Department, has been appointed secretary to the department. A Press Association! cable "message states that Air J. AY. Swanson has been appointed Lord Mayor of Alelbourne. Air R. Culver, Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute, and a representative of the British Dominions Etnigration Society, is in Wellington. The Rev. John Bell, of the Baptist Alissionary Society, Sainfu Shensi, North China, is one of the delegates to the Baptist Conference. Air Norman T. Williams has retired, owing to ill-health, from the position of manager in Auckland- for the National Insurance Company) ’'which ho has occupied for over 20 years. General regret was expressed at the competitions on Saturday night that the Rev. A. E. Hunt, president of the society, could not ho present at the final Another pioneer of Thames, in the person of Mr Edward Simpson, has passed away, aged 77 years. Mr Simpson was a miner, and in the early days of the Thames goldfields worked in most of the famous claims. He leaves two daughters, one of whom is Mrs R. Keating, of Wellington. The death has occurred at Wellington of Air Donald AlcKenzie, youngest son of the late Air Alurdpch Ale- , Kenzie, of Burnside, Alasterton. The deceased leaves a widow and two sons (Air Hughie AlcKenzie, of Berhampore, and Mr Harry McKenzie, of Sidey street). Hia Excellency Sir Cecil Rodwell, High Commissioner of the Western. Pacific, has made his first tour of part of his dominions. He left by the'yacht Pioneer on September 16th for Vila, New Hebrides, and 1 after a short stay there proceeded 1 to the Solomons. He visited the chief centres of that group and returned to Suva during the first week of October. Air' J. W. Card, of Wairarapa, who is in England, made a month’s tour of France and the battlefields, travelling across the Ohrtnnol by the Instone air Line. He is spending a month in London and the provinces, and was to leave for New Zealand last week, travelling via Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy, picking up the Olrontes at Na- • pies, on October 26th. Air C. 'Leyden has retired from the Government Printing Office after twen-ty-six years’ service, in order to take up the position of Inspector of Factories at Auckland.. Before leaving the printing office Mr Leyddn was pre. seated by the Government Printer (Mr Alarcus Alarks), on behalf of the staff, with a suitcase, and on behalf of “The Old Identities” of the office with a smoker’s outfit. At a meeting of the Wellington members of the New Zealand Society of Accountants, Messrs James Alclntosh, J. L. Arcus, ,J. L. Griffin, and T. Auton were elected members of the committee, and together with Alessrs O. AI. Bowden, E. R. Dymock and E. W. Hunt, the Wellington representatives on the New _ Zealand Council, 'will form tile committee for the ensuing year. Air R:' Carroll, of Auckland, i has been elected president of the Grand Council of the Locomotive Engineers’. Firemen, and Cleaners’ Association, , Messrs J. Ewart (Dunedin), and J. Veitch (Christchurch), Dominion councillors for the South Island, and Messrs J. Batt (Wanganui), and M. Dennehy (Wellington), Dominion councillors, for the North Island. The general -secretary (Air W. AlcArlcy] was granted ihree months’ holiday. Air J. P. .Key, librarian to 7the Working Alan’s Club and Literary- In. stitute, passed .away yesterday at-the Wellington Hospital. Air Key. who was 69 years of age, had a very genial personality, and served for 21 years in the New Zealand permanent forcest By all who knew him he was a very highly respected, and much sympathy is exnressed to hie widow and family. As librarian to the Wellington Working Men’s Club, his courteous manner and gonial personality endeared him to allDr J. Bronte Gatenby, a New Ze& lander, has just had entrusted to him the task of editing the standard text on biological technique. Oxford has lately created a new degree of Doctor of f’hilosopby, and Dr Gatenby was the first to qualify himself by three years original research to obtain this diploma. To New Zealand, therefore, belongs the honour of heading the' roll of Doctors of Philosophy (Oxon). Ho holds the position of lecturer on cytology and senior assistant in zoology at University College, London, and has been appointed to the new Readorship in cytology, which it is proposed to set up. ,

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