PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10950, 12 July 1921, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Sii Edwin Mitchekson, M.L.C., im 0* V •i \isit Wellington. The Rev. A. Grant, of Danner irke, hi' been granted three months leave ct absence owing to ill-health. The Rev. W. Grigs, president oi the . New Zealand Metaouist -Conxerenoe, woe Marlon on Sunday. The death is announced by cable from u>ndon of M r Charles Dawson, tlie biltiardist. Mr Maishall, principal of Wanganui Oollpgc*. was a visitor to Ha'vera at the week-end. - * Co’onel W. Meldrum, C. 8., C.M.G., D. 5.0., of New Plymouth, has been iwarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces J filters’ Decoration. Mr A. G. Paßot has been appointed represent the Napier land agents at. die Dominion conference tv be held is iVel'.ington on July 2lst. Owing to indifferent health, the Rev. J Cocker, of Masterton, ha# resigned irs position as editor of the **Vauixudrd.” Preiescor D. 8. H. Flora nee, of the Hongkong University, who is at present touring New Zealand, is a brother of Mr R. H. iTlbfance, o i Pukahb, Uuwke’s Bay. » Sir Wm. Fraser, M.L.C., who is at iies nt in the Bowen street Private Hospital, suffering f»om pneumonia, is xe.►orted to ha\e got over the crisis, and . j b,: steadily improving. The Rev. Daniel Dutton has been nominated by the Dunedin Presbytery tV the* Moderator of «ihe General Assembly, the Rev. Professor Hewit&on Having withdrawn from the position of Moderator-designate. The death took place last week of Mr Reginald Arthur Shrunpton, sixty-eignt years of age, an old ana respec&td. resident of Lyttelton, where he had been Lor inanv years in the employ of too Railway 'Department. On the retirement of Mr A. P. Hopkins. works superintendent of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company, to reside iu Auckland, the board, of dixectur expressed their appreciation of the long service and. regret at the severance of a connection which had extended over Lhiity-two years. Mr E. H. Andrews (chairman of the Oa liter bury Education Board), At the uist of the board xeterxed to the death of Mr C. S. Howard, who, he said, xuul been an old servant oi the North Car-ter bury Damnation Board, and A member of the couth Canterbury Board «uiu of th« piesaiu. Canterbury Board. Mr H. G- Rhodes, clerk of the Court, tYuipawa, who hap been transferred ** ( Wellington, was btiiciaLy fareweiled by '.he tvaipawa Bar at \the dose of_ the business on Thursday. Mr Wedde, peaking for the Bai, congratulated Mr rtnodes on his promotion to the position .i c.erk and deputy-registrar at Welling-Senior-Sergeant S. Till, of the Central Police Station, has been promoted to sub-inspector ancT transferred to Auckland to fill a vacancy caused by the promotion of Sub-Inspector E&les to the ox inspector gt Auckland. Senior•ergeant Till came to Wellington three months ago from Hamilton, and is re garded as a very efficient police officer. Mr D. P. Garrick, manager of the Fairfield Freezing Works, has received notxob of his transfer on - promotion to t a*; management of the Belfast works ot the Canterbury Frozgn Meat and Dairy Produce Export (.oinpany. hr Breeze, formerly of now in the Christchurch office of the company, lias* been appointed manager at Pa.rfield. # After managing 4he Northern Steam* ship Company for a perioc- of thirtytour years, Mr Charles Ranson has tei*» dered his resignation on account of age health, and will relinquish has office at the end of this month. At a meeting directors, the chairman, Mr <?„ Rhodes, said that the*- accepted Mr Ran son’s resignation with the greatest He had joined the company in its early days of small things, and And helped to build up an important and useful fleet, valuable to the d&y and the coastal -trade of the province, while paying constant dividends o*er his whole I term of management. Dr Charles Chilton, M.A., D.Sc. (N.Z.), M.B. C.M. (Edin.), F. 1.5.. professor of bio orgy at Canterbury College who wee recently offered the position of rector of hue college, has notified the Boafi of Governor# hie acceptance of the office. Dr Chilton was one of the earliest students of Canterbury College, end attended lectures in a' room of the pnblio library, before any off the present oolelige buildings had been erected. Ha was born at Leominster, Herefordshire, in 1860, and came to New Zealand as a child. He attended the Eyreton. Papenui and'West Christchurch Schools, end afterwards studied at Canterbury College, Otago University, and EdinlAirgh, al>? ' taking course# in medicine at Heidelberg, Vienna, and London. Before returning to Canterbury* College as a processor Dr Chilton was a master at the Christchurch Boy#* High School, and rector of Port Chalmers District High School. He has been a member 'of the Canterbury Education Board and chairman of the West Christchurch District High School Committee. 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