PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10812, 31 January 1921, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Mr Georg© Warren, an old resident ©t Gisborne, is taking up his permanent residence in Wellington. Hr A. W. Averill, Anglican Bishop of Auckland, has returned from a visit to the northern part of the diote-*se-Captain C. 11. has left Auckland to take up his new duties as haroourmasler. at -Apia, Samoa. Mr J. B. Clarkson, formerly of Christchurch and now of Sydney, arriven a* Auckland by the Tofua. Mr D. Perry, prcees ©4 th© Grand diitctor of Dennis Bros., Ltd-, engineerin New Zealand. Sir Raymond Dennis, K.8.E., managing director-of Dennis jsios.’ Ltd., engineering works in Britain, has arrived irom Sydney. His Honour Mr Justice Stringer left on Saturday for Auckland, where he will preside over the coming quarterly criminal session of the Supreme Court. Sir Elliot Johnson, Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, has arrived at Auckland, and will be th© guest of Major Knutsford during his stay in. the northern city. Mr H. J. Bennett, senior supervisor of th© Wellington Telegraph Office, has „ beer, nominated for a seat on the Boat and Telegraph Appeal Board. The eleo- - tier* will be held on February 12th. Mr F. Raphael, chairman of the New Zealand Cricket Council, i s at present on a visit to Wellington in connection with tho arrangements for the forthcom* iug vis?:t of th£ Australian cricketer a. On Saturday Mr F_ H. Haigh* of Wellington, admitted a solicitor bv H» Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), on the application of Mr P. J. O’Began. The Hon. Ratu J. A. Ratoer, 0.8. E., of tne liji Legislative Council, who has been, visiting the Wellington district, is greatly struck with the resources of th© Dominion. .Mr E. E. Muir, honorary secretary of lhe National Deijgnce League, has been Masterton, where.Uo met prominent citizens to di**cues the question of forming a branch of the league there. Mr T. A. Dolamore, general inanngev of the New Zealand Pajier Mills. Ltd., has'been visiting the Manawahi district in connection with the supply vT stripper slips from the Manawatu flax millers. % The new Registrar of the Arbitration Court is Mr B. L. Hammond, who has been appointed to succeed Mr John B. Salmon, recently appointed a magistrate. Mr Hantntond is at present attached to legal division of the Public Trust Office. Mr Joshua Tucker, aged i-eventy-iive. died at his residence at A Hen ton, burton, on Saturday. Born in Devonshire. he arrived in New Zealand m 1371 in the Zealandia. going to Ashburton in 1875, where had been a prominent figure in public commercial life ever since. H© leaves an adult family of six sons and two daughters. Mr M. H. Cobbald, a well-known settler and pioueer of the Northern Wairoa. Gied recently in Auckland. Mr. Cobbald arrived at Auckland in the ship Devonshire on February 7th, 18K3. Alter fighting in the Maori war he went to tho Northern Wairoa, and lived at Kaipara for about fifty years, when he ’went to Auckland, and retired. Mr Cobbald was a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity. Mr C- T. Salmon, secretary to th© Science Congress was presented with a’ pipe and case as an apreci&tion of the excellent services he had rendered. Pro* fessor Easterfield said Mr Salmon had undoubtedly borne the heat and burden of the day. An returning thank©. Mr Salmon Spoke of the valuable work of the section secretaries (Messrs Stevenson*. Lomas, Olliver and Colquhoun and Dr A. Thomson) in making the scientific side of the congress a success, i)r B. Morris Miller, JIJL, professor of psychology in the University’ of Tasmania, arrived at Auckland by the ' Tofua, and proceeded to Wellington, whence he will sail by the Tahiti for San Francisco. He has the sanction of the Premier of Tasmania, Sir Walter Lee* to make inquiries into the working of the psychological clinics of the American universities, especially those at San Francisco, St. Louis, Cincinnatti, Philadelphia, Harvard, and Chicago. He will also investigate the methods in vogue in jlie United States of treating the feebleminded. One of the most respected "padres'* during th© war was the Rev. J. A. Luxford, C.M.G., whose death has taken place at Auckland. Th© late Colonel Luxford, who was a son of the late Mr G. H. Luxford, one of the early pioneers of Wellington, was ordained to th© ministry in 1876. He served as + chaplain with the New Zealanders in the South African War in 1902, and vat awarded the Queen’s Medal, with clasp. When the Main Body of the Expeditionary Force left for Egvpt. the deceased accompanied it. and he went subsequently to Gallipoli, where he was badly wounded, and. as a result, had to have one of his legs amputated. After thi? th© deceased remained at the Wal-ton-on Thames Hospital, first as patient and then as chaplain, and hi© cheery greeting and warm handshake will be -remembered by all the men who passed through that institution.

The new Italian 1920 four-seatet FIAT, five wheels, Palmer Cord tyres, self-starter, electric light, now on view at the garage, Stanton I,td., 15, Molesworth- street (opposite Parliamentary Buildings). •