PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11436, 5 February 1923, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Mr Norman Radcliffe, of Timaru, Is visiting Christchurch. Bishop Whyte has left Dnnedin on a visit to Rome and Ireland. Sir James Mills was a passenger bj the Wahine to Christchurch on Saturday. Mr J. E. Henrys arrived in Christchurch on Saturday by the ferry steamer. His Honour Mr Justice Adams will visit Timaru to-day, to preside over a sitting of the Supreme Court. - Mr J. A. Duffy who filled the position of physical director to the Y.M. C.A. last year, has been re-appointed to the position. Mr J. Richardson, th© Otago AllBlack forward, has taken up his residence at Invercargill, and will play for the Waikiwi Club. Archbishop O’Shea will visit Martinborough this month for the purpose of consecrating the new Roman Catholic Church recently completed there. The Rishop of Wellington (Dr Sprott) is visiting the Wairarapa, where he will conduct a retreat at Grey town this week. Mr H. W. Uru, M.P., for the Southern Maori district, who has been a patient in the Christchurch Hospital, has left that institution. Sir R. T. C. Roberts, the district engineer in charge of. the Telegraph Department at Palmerston North, baa received notice of his transfer to Dunedin, and will leave for the south in three weeks’ time. Mr C. R. Edmond has taken up hia duties as acting-general secretary to the Wellington Y.M.C.A., relieving the general secretary. (Mr J. L. Hay), who, for health reasons, is taking ug farm "work for a year.

Mr W. Ferguson, of Wellington, arrived in Christchurch, and has gone on to the West Coast. Mr is a member of the commission established to inquire into matters connect* ed with Greymonth harbour.

Mr J. Ross, formerly of Lansdownsi and now of Sydney, will shortly tour New Zealand as joint manager of the “MidnigSt Follies,” a musical revue at present showing in Melbourne under the direction of J. C. Williamson,

Mr A. Tomlinson, who was for several years manager of the Hastings Nursery for Horton’s, Ltd., has joined the directorate! of that firm, and has bee* appointed manager both of the Hastings nursery and also of the Premier Nurseries at Pahiatua.

Mr George Hplgerson has been appointed temporarily as secondary assistant at the Eketahnna D.H.S. An old pupil of the Eketahuna Gchool, Mr Holgarson has a distinguished scholastic record, and has already gained the B.A. and B.Sc. degrees.

The late Mr James Little, who died at his residence in Petone last week, was bom in Hastings, England, in 1851, and came out as one of the Alberti and settlers to Auckland in tbs Matilda Whatenback in 1862. For the last sixteen years he had resided in Petone. He leaves a widow and eleven children. Mr V. Johnson,- manager in Melbourne of the Union Steamship Co. of New Zealand, Ltd , has resigned the position of chairmag of the Commonwealth Steamship Owners’ Association. Mr G...W. Turner, general manager of Howard Smith, Ltd.', and Australian Steamships Pty., Ltd., has been elected as his successor. Mr H. W. Lawson,.manager of tbs National Bank at Auckland, who has been in indifferent health for some time, proposes to spend the next three months in Australia on'holiday. He will leave for Sydney Vy the Niagara, sailing from Wellington on February 17th. . Mr. Lawson will he relieved by Mr G. W. Mclntosh, of Dunedin, the senior manager of the service. At a. meeting of the .Carterton Oddfellows’ Lodge, the District Grand Master, Bro. J. H. Langley, presented a framed diploma to P.G. Bro. A. P. Wallis, in recognition of services rendered! while going through the chairs. Bros. R. J. Wallis and A. Cave will represent the Carterton Oddfellows’ Lodge at the annual district conference at Martinborough.

—'Mr C. W. S. Cox, acting-manager ef branch of the Bank of New South Wales, hoe received notice of' his transfer to Invercargill aa manager. Mr Cox, who will he succeeded by Mr W.- J.. P. Hodgkins, at present manager at Invercargill, went to Auckland some months ago -to relieve the late Mr W. H. L. Galwev, who died at Masterton while on leave.

Colonel R. J. Collins, C.M.G., president of the National Rifle Association! of New Zealand, who has been on • visit to Taranaki, returned to town on Saturday. He took advantage of his visit to push the interests of the National Rifle Association, and a good entry from the district for the ensuing rifle meeting at Trentham may he looked for.

While he was in Auckland the Hon. C. J. Parr, Minister of Education and Public Health, was busy on departmental business connected with both of his portfolios. Matters affecting the requirements of the Auckland school district were discussed with the Education Board, and he also had business with the Auckland Hospital Board in connection with the important works that body has in hand or contemplation.

Mr C. Colpus, who retired from the Post and Telegraph Department last week, was farewelled at a gathering of the P. and T. Motor and Mechanical Workshops staff. Mr Colpus for the past ten years has been in charge of the motor section. Mr Earnshaw, the manager, spoke of the 'departing officer’s high value to the department, and also of the standard of character he had set for the men employed with and under him. The parting gift of the staff was a pair of oak Morris chairs.

The death is announced of Mr Ezra Cartwright, aged 67, a well-known mine manager of- the Thames district. He was born in Auckland, and vent to the Thames as a boy. He worked in the mines, and became manager of sever'd of. the best-known mines there, and also the Talisman and Karagahake mines. He was a well-known howler,-and was verv popular at Thames and on the goldfields. His son Mr Thomas Cartwright, is fn th© Wellington office of the Land Mod Income Tax Department. For Motor Garage accommodation and repairs, ring 2240. Stanton, Ltd.. IJ, Molesworth street (opposite Parliament Buildings). Motors for hire (open or closed); reliable chauffeurs.—AdvL