PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11366, 13 November 1922, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Sir Thomas Mackenzie, M.L.G., h visiting Auckland.

Lieutenant-Commander C. V. Cardwell, R.X., of H.M.S. Veronica, is visiting Wellington.

Mr T. W. Sanderson, of Wellington, repr>atnting tlie Noith Island Freezing Woiks, has been visiting Auckland.

The Rev. O. M. Stent, vicar of Eastbourne, is at present on a holiday visit to Taupo with Mrs Sfifcit.

Mr C. Ho’dsworth, managing director of the Ungjn Steam Ship Company, has returned "om a visit to England.

Mr Norman Rutherford, of Mendip Hills, who has been on a six-months’ visit to Great Britain, has returned to Canterbury.

Mr F. M. Cox has been 'appointed secretary of the Auckland Returned Soldien" Association. Mr Cox haa been acting-secretary fpr some time.

Mr W. Beech, clerk to the Mahara County Council, has been granted immediate leave by the council on account of illness. Mr Beech will be absent from duty for some time.

Mr A. J. Soutar, manager for the Union Steam Ship Company at Fiji, arrived at Auckland by tho Makura, in company with Mrs and Miss Soutar.

Sir Aurelian Ridsdale arrived at Auckland by the Navua. Sir Aurelian is a prominent figure in the British Red Cross Society, and during the war organised Red Cross activities in the Balkans and Mesopotamia.

The Rev. F. B. Redgrave, vicar of St. Andrew’s, Napier, has been ap. pointed organising secretary to the New Zealand Board of Missions, owing to the resignation of the Rev. O. J. Kimberlev.

The Rev. J. A. Shardlow, M.A., of Yorkshire, was a passenger by the Makura. which arrived at Auckland a few days ago. He lias been appointed minister in charge of the Anglican parochial district of Wairoa, Hawke’a Bay.

1 After an absence of nine years, Dr J. Murray Cole, M. 8., F.R.C.S., son of Mr D. G. Cole, of Onehunga, an old boy of the Auckland Grammar School, has returned to Auckland. Dr Cole spent practically all his time studying in Edinburgh.

A message from Suva to the Auckland “Herald” states: The colony mourns the death of Mr Roy Parnell, M..C-, a very gallant soldier, who came to Fiji after he had been retired from the army owing to wounds. He woe a strong mah, and seemingly had quite recovered from the effects of gassing and being wounded with ehrapnel, a piece of which, it seems, had remained in his head. When on a visit recently to Savu Savu he struck Lis head on the water-pipe in the bathroom over the spot where the shrapnel was still lodged. Acute inflammation set in, and, refusing to see a doctor, he drsd from the wound. He was greatly loved by all who knew him.

The late Mr W. M. Joynt, whose death occurred at Christchurch at the end of last week, was born at Christchurch, and was a member of an old Canterbury family, being a nephew of the late Mr Thomas I. Joynt, senior partner of the legal firm of Joynt and Perceval (now Joynt and Andrews). He was educated at' Warwick House School, Christchurch, and went into business as a young man with L. E. Nathan and Co., merchants. of Hereford street. In 1885 he entered the service of the National Insurance Company, and in 1888 was promoted to he accountant in the Christchurch branch, of which he became manager on the death of Mr Alexander Carrick.

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