PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11296, 23 August 1922, Page 3

PERSONALIA

VICE-REGAL. His Excellency the Governor-General, Viscount Jellicoo, on Saturday next will be pre-ent. at the football match _be» tween Christs College and Wellington College. Mr C. U Matthews. Controller-General of Prisons, is at Auckland on departmental duties. Captain 11. Whito-Parsons, harbour, master, has returned to Napier from Melbourne. He has been on eick leave. Mr A. C. "Wells, of the North Canterbury Freezing Company, is on & visit tc Wellington. Mr J. W. Card, Mayor of Featherston, the Liberal-Labour candidate for tho Wairarapa seat at the general election, has commenced his campaign. Three days' leave of absence from the of Representatives has been granted to tho lion. AY. T. Jennings on account of urgent public business. Mr R. H. Vincent, of the staff of the Palmerston North branch of the Bank of New South Wales, has been transferred to the bank's Auckland office. The citizens of Gisborne and the surrounding districts intend presenting Mr J. S. Barton, S.M., with a token, of their esteem prior to his departure for Wa* nganui. Mr Ma Hsaio Chin, of Canton, and Mr, Chow Youk. editor of the Weekly j Truth," Hongkong, who are visiting New Zealand, sail for China via Sydney on Thursday. * Mr Justice Reed is presiding over the sitting of the Supreme Court at Wanganui. Mr Justico Reed was the presiding judge at the recent session of the Supreme Court at Palmerston North, Mr C. J. Cowan, whose death is re- j ported from Ashburton, was well-known ’ at Pctone, where he was railway station-' master for several years. Mr Cowan retired op superannuation about three* yeaTs ago. Major E. A. Belcher, of the British Empire Trade Mission, arrived in. Well- \ ington last evening from Picton, after j addressing meetings in the 6outh. He I will remain here until Friday, and will then leave for Auckland to join the Niagara, which sails on August 29th for Vancouver. *■ Mr W. S. Culbert, who has been id* charge «of the Colonial Mutual Life Office ’ at Dunedin, has been promoted to the ! position of chief inspector of the ordiu-'j ary department for Otago and South?; land. Mr J. Laing has taken over the position of superintendent of the Dunedin office. Mr F. J. Walker, Collector of Customs at Wanganui, who is retiring on super- j annuation at the end of September, has 1 had forty years' service. Mr Walker ! joined the department in Wellington, and served at Christchurch, Auckland, Wanganui and Wellington. He returned to Wanganui twenty-two year© ago, and for the last ten years has held the post' of Collector, succeeding Air Dickie. Messrs G. C. Webster and O. Gillian, of the reporting staff of the "Manawatu Standard," have resigned their positions on that journal. Mr Webster has accepted an appointment on the literary staff of the "Auckland Star," and Mr Gillian will shortly be leaving for Port Fairy, Australia, as analytical expert to a well-known chemical manufacturing firm. Mr Robert Mitchell, who died at Devonport. Auckland, at the age of 67. was well-known in Auckland business circles. Mr Mitchell was born in the West of Scotland, and came to Auckland in the early 'eighties. He was first in the office of the legal firm of Messrs Bussoil and Campbell, and later with the Northern Roller Milling Company, Ltd.. with which he was connected for 39 years, holding the position of accountant at the date of his death. An ohd colonist, Mr Charles Vinei Hill, died at Onehunga. aged Si.- Bom at Surry Hills, near Sydney, New South Wales, Mr Hill h/id lived in Auckland for S 3 year?, he and his parents having cam© from Sydney with. Captain Hobson, New Zealand's first Governor, in 1810, arriving at Auckland in the barque Anna Watson in September, 1810, when the vessel brought the Governor and party from Russell to the new capital. Mr Hill's father was one of the mechanic* brought from Sydney by the Governor. He took an active part in local affairs, being for many years a member of the Onehunga Borongh Council, and a dime-, tor of the Onehunga Land Society. Ha was a prominent Mason, and was alas a trusteo of the Onehunga Foresters* Court. FIAT CARS.—Let ns show yon the latest in FIATS; three Models to choose from, any style of body-—STANTON'S. LTD., Moleeworth street Telephone 2240.- Advt.