PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10822, 11 February 1921, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Mf J. A. Henderson hag returned to Christchurch after an extended LoIkW in Australia. Mr C. C*. Davis, managing director of the New Zealand Glue Company, ha* returned to t hristchurdi to-day from Sydney. Sir William Fraser has been in Dunedin for a day or two, and will leave there on hia return journey north to* day. Mr Ashley J. Hunter has been electee* president, and Mr Philip C. 0. Locki vice-president of the Auckland Club. Mr R. B. D. Byre, collector of cojtomj at New Plymouth, is on a visit to Ancle, land. An Order-in-Council irazetted yesterday declares Wiremu Kouko, of Toko* mam Bay, to he a European. Mr George Reid has been appointed au inspector of stock, and Mr Hannan an inspector under the NozioW Weeds and Rabbet Nuisance Acts. Mr Kenneth Douglas Duncan has been appointed Acting-Consul for Portugal at Wellington during the absence of the Acting-Consul, Mr A. D. S. Duncan. M. Henri Segaert. Consul-General for Belgium, arrived in Invercargill yeslerdav and was accorded a civic welcome (states a Press Association telegram). Mr R. M. Watson. LL.B., S-M., lately Chief Judge of the High Court of Western Samoa, has been appointed to the « Helensville-Pukekohe magisterial district as from March Ist. Messrs George Livingstone. Thomas Alexander Munro, and Robert Thomas Sadd have been appointed Commissioners to classify pastoral* rung in the Otago land district. Mr T. M. Wilford, M-P-. left for Auckland yestbrdnv by the Main Trunk train on legal business. He will return is time for the re-trial of the Livingston* case on Monday. Mr G. A. Warren, a director of ihe Portland Packing Company, ~of Oregon, who is at present touring the South Inland. will return to America by the neat direct steamer, Messrs A. G. .Mumby and F. H. Cooney were appointed by the Wellington District Poultry Farmers' Association yesterday as -its delegates the Poultry • Association's Conference to be held a* Auckland next month. Among bjr tho Mannka which left Wellington last night for « Sydney, were Mr J. R. Palmer, town clerk, and Mr Molyneanx. inspector for the Bank of New Boath Wales in Now Zealand. A Press Association telegram from Christchurch states that Mr Charles L Young, headmaster of the Christ's College Lower Schobl. died vesterday as the result of* haemorrhage, following on gaa poisoning sustained at the front. Mr G. Chirnside, of Warribee Park, Victoria, was a passenger from Sydney, by the Moana, and has left for Rotoma. He is a keen sportsman, and has more than once made reoord catches of trout in the Rotorua district. The Revs, G. Y. Roby, formerly of the Xorthoote Church, and G. B. Inglis, late of Mount Albert, have, been appointed ministers emeritus. Intimation to this effect has been received the Auckland Presbytery from the Aerk of the General Assembly. Mr C. B. Bevan Brown, late beadmaster of the Christchurch Boys* High School, will be the guest of the Old Boys' Association ou Monday evpniijgA February 21st. when a presentation wBl be made to him, to msuk the occasion of his - retirement from the school. m In the annual report land Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, feeling reference is made to the sudden, dfeath last year pf Mr Samuel Clarke Johnson, chief inspector for New Zealand, who had been in the service of the company i«r upwards of thirty-seven years. Mr James Mann, who has been on the staff of the Wellington branch of the Bank of New Zealand for some years, is leaving today for Sydney by the He has accepted a position a» accountant with the Davis Gelatine .Go., Ltd., . Sydney. The stall of the Btsk of New Zealand presented Mr Mann with a handsome silver teapot and entree dish. The Hon. J. *G. Coajes, Minister foi 1 Public Works, accompanied by Mr P. W. Furkert, Under-Secretary ana cfauf | engineer, JSIr L. Birfcs. chief- electrical engineer, ahd other departmental officers, arrived at Gore from the Lakes district , yesterday morning and subsequently i viMted Winton and Invercargill, ft- ■ ceiving deputations on provincial mutters at each- place. To-day the Minister will leave for Lake Monowai to inspect the works in connection with the Southland hydro-electric scheme. —Press. A» sociation. The Minister for Education (the Honk C. J. Parr) left Wellington by the Lyttelton ferry steamer last night foy the South Island to visit variousweentres on business connected with the Education and Public Health Departments. Today the Minister proceeds to Timam. and afterwards he will visit Temuka and Waitaki. He will spend several dayerin the Invercargill district and in Dunedin, and one day at Oamaru. Mr Parr, who has upwards of forty engagements with deputations and so forth booked, is to spend February 23th and £6th in Christchurch, and is expected back Jn Wellington on the 27th inst. * Mr H- R. Seddon, who is lecturer c-n pathology at the Veterinary College, Melbourne University, has been 'granted the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Science, largely as the outcome~of valuable original research. Dr Seddon is a native of the Bay of Plenty, where bis father was a well-known stock dealer. He joiliri the Agricultural Department as a cadet in Wanganui, and began his rientito training in the department's laboratory at Wailaceville. With tbs waytoa of service at the front. Dr Seddon has been on the teaching staff of the Melbourne University since he qualified in 1912. and has now obtained the highest degree ti his profession which the University can g^ant. The new Italian ; 1920 four-seater FIAT, five wheels. Palmer Cord tyres, self-starter, electric light, now on view at the garage, Stanton Ltd., 15, l|pleu worth street (opposite Parliamentary Buildings).