PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10811, 29 January 1921, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Sub-Lieu tenant TV. R. Fell, R.N., • Now Zealander, has been appointed to H.ZtI.S. Excellent for a torpedo coons. Mr E. Philpott Crowther left yesterday to spend a few days at Napier and Hastings before returning to Australia. Mr Raynor White, organist of St Paul’s Church (Christchurch) has been appointed the New Zealand representative of the London College of Music. Chaplain-Colonel J. A- Luxford, a veteran of the South African and the Great Wars, died at Auckland yesterday. Me Frank Hutchens, the New Zealand pianist, of the Faculty of the Sydney Conscrv a tor: urn, is at present on a visit to Christchurch. The Rev. John Dawson, organiser and general secretary of the New Zealand Alliance, has been seriously indisposed. Dr D. E. Hansen, director of the Christchurch Technical College, who lias been on a visit to the North Island, has returned south. The Rev. Father Cabin, who returned to Woipuwa this week after a trip to Ireland, has now been, appointed to the charge of the Patea parish - Mr R. R. Black, superintendent of the Eastern Extension telegraph Company, is taking a few months’ holiday. During his absence Mr R. L_ Wright will be in charge. Mr Henry Baldwin, formerly Mayo* of Lower Hutt, and ex-chairman of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, left for Sydney by the Moeraki yesterday cn route to Melbourne. Mr W. C. Thompson, Government Orchard Instructor, is paying Waihi a visit with a view to taking steps to stamp out fire blight, which has made its appearance in the district. Mr C. A. Sadler, D.Se., eeoomd sow of the late Mr and Mrs W. B. Sadler, of The' Lowlands, Featherston, died at Oxford, England, last month, at the age of thirty-eight. Mr F. Kibblewhite. has been approached with a request that he should allow himself to be nominated for the Mayoralty of - New Brighton (Christchurch). • Mr H. I. Bennett, senior smernM in the Wellington Telegraph Office, has been nominated as a czmdxtexe for election to the Poet and Telegraph Appeal Board. The election takes planes on February 12th. The Hon. G. J. Anderson (Minister for Internal Affairs) leaves WeUsng- - ton for Nelson on Monday next. He is to open the Tokaka show the following day, and expects to return to Wellingtan on Thursday morning. Mr J. G. L. Hewitt, for some time past a stipendiary magistrate in New Zealand, who has been appointed Government Residential Commissioner ait Rarotonga, will leave for the Cook Group by the Tahiti next week. Mr H. C. Lane, secretary of the Canerbury Education Board, nas returned to, Christchurch after attending the conference of education board representatives with the Minister in Wedlilngton. Mr Martin Duff, the well-known Scottish tenor, left Wellington by the Moe- ! raki for Sydney, and, after an Austrai lian tour, intends proceeding to t-n,--{land. He anticipates being away from New Zealand about two years in all. Mr J. W. Tibbs, headmaster wf the Auckland Grammar School, who has been in Wellington for some days as delegate to the annual conference of the New. Zealand University Senate, returned to Auckland by the Main Trunk express last evening. A Press Association telegram from Dargaville states that Mr Thomas Montgomery, aged 76 years, is dead. Deceased arrived in Auckland 56 yeans ago in the ship Dauntless. He was bora at InnisKiflen in 1645. In the early days he was engaged in gold mining in the North and- Booth Islands, and was in charge of a section of the railway between Christchurch and Dunedin when the line was being built. Mr Montgomery was a pioneer of Northern Wairoa, and for the past forty years had been farming at Mitaitai. ’He leaves a widftw and family of eleven, all living in the Dargaville district. He lost tw» sons in the war. . The new Italian 1920 fonr-seatei FIAT, five wheels, Palmer Cord tyres, self-starter, electric light, now on view at the garage, Stanton Ltd.) 15, Molesworth Btreet (opposite Parliamentary Buildings). *