PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11226, 3 June 1922, Page 3

PERSONALIA

VICE-REGAL. His Excellency Lord Jcllicoe attenJt ed a dinner at the Auckland Officers’ Club last evening. Mr D. A. McLean, Mayor of Who ngarei, is at Christchurch as a delegate to the Scout Conference. Mr T. T. Grant, manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Outrain, has received notice of his transfer to Bluff. Councillor S. H. Underwood. who has been confined to his bed for several days, was reported to be improving ia health yesterday. Mr J. H. Jerram, Deputy-General Manager of the State Eire Office, has been elected a member of the Public Service Superannuation Board. Messrs G. H. "Wilson and A. H. Bankart have been appointed sinking fund commissioners for the Auckland and Suburban Drainage Board in place of the late Mr H. D. Heather and the Hon. Arthur Myers. Mr A. H. Legh, South Island manager of the Dunlop Rubber Company, .who has been on a business trip to Melbourne and Sydney, has returned to Christchurch. Sir G. Little, chief engineer of the Wiltshire, is a brother-in-law of Mr J. Mcdvenzie, assistant secretary of the Wellington Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Union. Mr C. W. Jansen, recently postmaster of Onehunga, has retired from the Postal Department. He and his family have taken up their residence at Howick. Mr J. R. Brough, a member of the London City Corporation*. who has been on a business visit toMelbourne, has been spending a few days in Christchurch. Mr Brough is at present at Dunedin. Mr Stanley B. Pilcher, who for three years has been the Picton agent for the Union S.S. Company, has taken charge of the company’s office at Bluff. Mr Pilcher can boast of 72 transfers—--37 steamers and 35 branches—since ho joined the company. Mr Carl August Bergersen, whoso death is reported from Palmeraton North, at the age of 75 years, was one of the pioneer settlers of the Manawatu district. The late Mr Bergersen arrived in New Zealand in 1871, and took up land at Foxton lane. A blind returned soldier, Mr J. W. N. Macintosh, on Sunday evening, at Durham street Church, Christchurch, will read the lesson, and • will also recite “The Blind Sbldier’o If,’* while the collection is being taken on behalf of the blind returned soldiers. A presentation took place at the Auckland District Health Office to Mr W. H. Wilkinson, Inspector of Health, who has retired, after eight years’ service, to take up a similar position at Onehunga. In making the presentation of a suitcase and fountain pen, Dr B. H. Makgill referred to the efficient service rendered by the recipient and the esteem in which he was held by his fellow-officers. Mr Wilkinson was afterwards entertained at dinner by the staff. The Rev. James Wilson, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, is visiting the Dominion. Mr Wilson, who is a resident of Sydney, was the founder of the Fast street Mission, Auckland. He was. visiting England in 1914, and went to Franco when war broke out. In 1916 ho again went to the war zone with the Australian Miners’ Corps, and was there until 1917. Mr Wilson has been lecturing in thq. South Island in aid - of the Sir Arthur Pearson memorial fund for the assistance of the blind civilians. A respected pioneer of Waikiekie, Mr Arthur E. Mason, aged 69 years, died last week. Deceased came to Hew Zealand with his parents, landing at Auckland from the ship Ida Ziegler on October 25th, 1866. His father took up land under the 40-acre system in Waikiekie, which was then in its virgin state, there being only the Stephens brothers, Alexander and Charles, there, where they Boon carved out a home from the forest. Deceased took an active part in all' local polities. He was member and chairman of the Road Board for many years, also chairman and member of the cemetery and school committees. He and his father-in-law, Mr Hartnell, pit-sawed the first school. They also pit-sawed the timber for the Anglican Church. He and his brother Harry pit-sawed the timber for the second school, viz., the East School. De-

ceased was a great-grandson of the Earl of Chatham.

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