PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11306, 4 September 1922, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Mr C. H Parsons has been appointed issistant-bailiff at Wellington. Mr T. H. Patterson, chief of the field staff of the Department of Agriculture, ;s visiting Sydney on holiday. Mr A. H. Entrican, of the Forest Service, is at present on -a North Island lecturing tour. Mr C. M. Malfroy, milling expert, of the Forest Service, has recently bees engaged on special work in the Auckland district. Mr C. H. Opie has been Te-elected chairman of the Christchurch Technical Board of Governors, and Mr J. A- Black vice-chairman. A London cablegram states that ft: Eric Geddes has accepted nomination for the presidency of the Federation ot British Industries. His Honour the Chief Justice, 8h Robert Stout, is to leave Napier for Masterton to-day, and will probably return to Wellington at th. end of this week. Archdeacon Stocker, formerly of Invercargill, is reported b- a Press Afroe.iation telegram to have died in Christchurch. The Hon. George Fowlds and Messrs A. A. Martin and F. M. Hills have been aDpointed to represent the Auckland Chamber of Commerce on the advisory committee of the British Empire Exhibition. Captain N. V. Bowater, M.C., of Messrs W. V. Bowater and Sons, Ltd., London, has arrived in Christchurch, aocompanied by (his wife. Captain Bowater, who left London some months ago. Is erasing practically a.world tour-.—He intends visiting the North Island. i Mr W. L. Lowe has preached his farawell sermon in Gisborne, having Been appointed to the Church of Christ at Petone. Mr Jamee Crawford, of Kil« birnie, succeeds Mr Lowe at Gisborne,' and will go there about the middle of October. Motorman Frank Foxwell, of the city tramways, who is leaving for Ehgland shortly, was presented with a travelling rue bv the Thorndon staff. Mr B. DMcGiliivrav made the presentation, and Mr Foxwell responded. He was heartily cheered at the conclusion of his reply. A Press Association,message from Greymouth reports the death of Mr Robert Russell, aged 63, licensee of the Park Hotel. He was formerly Mayor of Brunner and chairman of the Greymouth Harbour Board, and a prominent Druid. Ha was a native of Dumbarton, and landed in Auckland forty years ago. The Rev. H. H. Barton, M.A., who was recently appointed secretary to the Foreign Missions Committee, accompanied by Mrs Barton, left Dunedin on Tuesday for Hongkong and Shanghai. Mr Barton will visit the Presbyterian mission stations in China, and then proceed to Calcutta to inspect the Punjab mission. Mr Ma Hsaio Chin, of Canton, a member of the Chinese National Assembly, Mr Chew Took, editor of the “Weekly Truth.” Hiongkong, and Mr T. 8. Lum Bew, of Sydney, who have been visiting New Zealalnd on business connected with the Auckland branch of the (JunesMasonic Order, left for Sydney by the Ulimaroa on Thursday. Mr H. J. Combs, late foreman mechanic in the Wellington Gas Company’s distributing department, ]s about to leave the company’s service, after twenty-three years, to go into business on his'own eeoOrunt; 'ajjd he was on Friday presented with a gold watch, suitably inseribedMr A. Morris Taylor, chief mechanical inspector, made the presentation on behalf of the staff. .At. the Wellington Gas Company's workshop last Friday evening Mr H. J. Coombs was made the recipient of a handsome gold watch. Mr A. M. Taylor, who made the presentation, spoke in. high praise of Mr Coombs’s good qualities and expressed the wish thf* bis severing his connection with the Gas Company would result in success in tba new business he had adopted. Mr W. J. Stevens (office staff) and Messrs Parsons and Sinclair (fitting department) also spoke in high terms of Mr Coombs, who suitably responded.

The death has occurred at Taihape of a former resident of Canterbury Mr D. Sinclair. The deceased came to New Zealand from Victoria in 1879, and vaa a member of the teaching profession in North Canterbury for ever thirty year*. He took a great interest” in Jersey, cattle, and was for some years a judge at the Christchurch show, and at several country shows. He was an enthusiastic cricketer, and was an active member for many years of the Midland and Riecarton clubs. His death occurred suddenly, at the age of sixty-five years. •

Mr J. 8. Hope, -colonist of - over' "99 • years’, standing, and a well-known gold-” fields pioneer, died at his residence, Grange road. Mount JMen, on WedneS-" - " dqy evening: aged 77. A native of Glasgow. Re emigrated to' Australia as a youth, and then .came to New Zealand, arriving at Dunedin in time to, be among the pioneers of the Gabriel’s Gully mining rush in 1361. From there ' he wentJto Hawke’s Bay. and-in Neuter was proprietor of a line of mail coaches, being the—first person to drive a IMS horse coach to the Waipawa district.' Me was one of the earliest members of the Hawke’s Bay detachment of the Colonial Defence Force.