PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11195, 28 April 1922, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Mr George Petlierick, chairman of thf Social Welfare Committee, has refused from Auckland. Mr John Dick, a Pahiatua pioneer, is at present an inmate of the Pahiatua Hospital. Sir William Fraser, M.L.C., officiated at the unveiling of the memorial to returned soldiers at Queenstown. * Mr L. Macintosh Ellis, Director of Forestry, is visiting Auckland and Rotorua on official business. Mr Herbert Alley has been appointed deputy registrar of births, deaths and marriages at Wellington. The appointment of Mr James Alexander Roberts as Consular Agent for Italy at Dunedin has been provisionally recognised. * Mr Alister Brown, advertising' tnan. ager of the “Evening Post/’ return* ed to Wellington, after an extended holiday in , Australia and Tasmania. The Rev. O. M. Stent, vicar of Eastbourne, is visiting Auckland in connection with the Church of England Men's Society Conference. Messrs James Shiner Bond' and George William, Murray have been elected members of the Auckland Grammar School Board of Governors

The Minister for Lands and Repatriation (the Hon. D. H. Guthrie) returned to Wellington from Hunterville and Rata by yesterday's Main* Trunk express. Mr J. R. Mair has been transferred from the Defence Department to the Department of Public Health at Whangarei, and leaves immediately to take up hie duties as district clerk. Mr W. H. Walton has been appointed a member of the South Canterbury War Relief Society’s executive, in place of Mr J. Maling, who is about to remove to Christchurch. Mr G. London (a member of the board) was heartily thanked by the Education Board yesterday for the gift of a number of part 6 of the Atlas, and arrangements are to be made for their distribution. Reference was made at the. meeting of Hutt District High School- householders to - the death of-the late chairman, Mr J. McDougall, a resolution of sympathy being passed by the•' householders to the relatives of the deceased. r .. Mr F.' Williams, accountant~of the Dunedin, branch, of the Public Trust Department, being c transferred to Auckland on w promotion. Hr*J. C. Nilsson, of Auckland, will Succeed Mr Williams in the Dunedin office. Mr Guy G- Calvert, of the engineering staff of Canterbury College, has been advised that at *a general meeting held in London on March 7th, he was. elected an Associate Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers. The Defence Minister (Sir Heaton Rhodes) "returns to'Wellington fr6m the South I?l#nd this morning. During his eoutherA. trip the Minister unveUed war memorials at Dunsandel, Kakaia,: and Green Park, and opened ft n evf post office at Duvanchelle.. Mr F. C. Raphael, of Christchurch, who is making good progress 'towards recovery, was visited at his home by the Rev. W. Walker (prreident of the Returned Soldiers' Association) and Mr W. E. Leadley (secretary), and ' presented with the life membership of-the association.

: ~JThe- fallowing, .Domain-. Board has keen appointed to Sate control of "the TifffcTru Domain :—Messrs Isaac James Bradley, Peter Campbell, Robert Hamilton Fe.Charles Edward .IlajJ, William Henry Hall. John ty£enry, William John-Priest, and Ralph Alexander Rodgers. The following names of officiating ministers under the Marriage Act were gazetted yesterday for general information. :—Presbyterian Ghuxch, the Reverend Edward John Daboume, Mr George WoodiMethodist Church, the Reverends Trt Burton, Saipnel-6|ng; ton .Green,""Leslie Albert George and Mr Albert * Blakemonft. Letters of naturalisation' have been,' , granted us under:—Daube, Rudolf, German, Eketahuna, engineer; Dodunsltfg JosephjjGerman, Midhurst, farmer retti, Francesco, Italian, Lower Hutt, market gardener; Granins, Samuel, nish, Auckland, carpenter; Johansen** Bernard, Belgian, Wellington, Petersen, Alfred, Norwegian, Fairlie, Labourer.. The inspectors of weights and measures have been appointed: Messrs Stanley Earle McGregor, Cecil Porter Smith, Peter Cari Weenink, Wik iiam James Chappell, Alfred Drummond Snedden, John Matthew Murdoch, Archibald Thomas Grandison, Richard Alfred Bolland, Edwin James Gilbert Stringer, Frederick Barton, Samuel Kennedy, Arthur James Foley, John Geozgesoo, Percy Henry Kinsman, John Jackson, Lionel Robert Meadows, Cecil Herbert Hoskin, and George Francis Grieve. At the funeral of Mr William ££» monds. an old resident of Wellington, the service at the graveside was conducted by the Rev. G. Y. Woodward, M.A. Among those present were His Worship the Mayor (Mr R. A. Wright, M.F.), Messrs Robert Tait faasiatanttown clerk). F. K. Kelling, Madam Darrell, and other citizens, also members of Court Robin Hood, of which lodes* deceased was a member for nearly fifty years. Deceased wee at one time in the employ of the City Council.

The following resignations of teacher* were received* fry the Wellington Educe r tion - Beard at- its- meeting yesterday*-** M. Gilbert, probationer, Berhampore; S- Pike, sole teacher, Waikahaho; & U. Best, assistant, Koputaroa; H. T\ Cooper, head teacher, Paekakariki; H Bxunton, 6ole teacher,. Dryer'sltojik;.. S. Hobday, infant' mistress, town; J. Mclntyre, head teacher, Le« . vm Dietrict High School; W. R. Olansen, sole teacher, Walone; L, infant mistress, Picton; ant) M. L. Stewart, Ngaio. r ; A Press message .from Wanganui re* ports the death of -Mr Alfred Burnett at the age of 69 years. Deceased was • one of the earliest settlors in the Wanganui district, having arrived there in 1856 with his parents. He waa a successful farmer, was closely identified with the freezing industry and was one of the founders of the Meat Freezing' Company. He took ah * active part in public hut a interest in returned soldiers. Besides donating largely to the funds he gave the site on which the clubhouse stands, and was a member of the patriotic ’ executive since its inception. Mr Stephen Freeman, who died ai. Napier, aged ninety-one years, was an* old and respected resident of that district. He was born in London, and left England in 1855, arriving in Wellington, and afterwards proceeding to Napier. He ha« lived in Napier, except for short * intervals, ever since. Manv. year® ago t , whilst working for Mr McCurdy on Government railway contract, yand blasting rock near Fentherston. he met witfc c an accident which deprived Aim t o{ s sight. Mr Freeman took wart in . Maori War, and participate! in the gagement at Omarunui. Mr George Freeman, of the mechanical branch of' the "Times’* staff, is a son of deceased.