PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11652, 17 October 1923, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Mr R. C- Hughes, of Wellington, Is at Aueklai d.

Mojor AY. I. K. Jennings, of Wellington. ha-, bom y'siting Auckland.

Mr R K. Leon, secretary of the Savage Ulub, Wellington, is at Auckland.

Mr and Airs A. E. Digby, of Melbourne, are visiting the Dominion.

Mr nnd Mr-S IL Gilmer have arrived back in Wellington fiom Auckland.

Air G. Witty, M.P.. is visiting Wellington.

Air E. P. Earle ha- Icon appointed Native Land Coint Commissioner at Auckland.

Air T- R. Blaekoy. t -upci intendent of the Pacific Cable Borud. i- at present in the north.

Mr E. E Gillon. chief mechanical engineer, Rail way Depu: tnit iit, has returned from a vi-it to Auckland.

Lieutenant W. G. Gentry, area officer at Masterton, is at present in Wellington on departmental bu-iness.

Dr. J Header-on. New Zealand Geological Survey, left by the Tofua for Fiji to investigate the economic geolcgy of the Islands.

Air William Hume, of Martinborough. who i-- at present in a private hospital in Wellington, is making progress towards recovery.

Captain John Bone, marine superintendent of the New Zealand Shipping Company, has returned to Wellington from the north.

Air J. Sullivan, po-tma*ter at Xaseby, has received notice of his promotion to the position of correspondence clerk at the Greymouth po=>t office.

Air F. W. Yosseler and Mr W. H. Denton, of the Tararua Tramping Club, who spent the week-end in Masterton, returned to Wellington yesterday.

Air AY. Clarke, secretary of the Seamen’s Union at Dunedin, is in Wellington in connection with the pending dispute in the shipping industry.

Afr E. C. Wood, Government dairy produce grader for the Patea and Wanganui districts, has handed over his duties at Wanganui to Mr N. Fulton, who has been transferred from New Plymouth.

Mr Harold Whittle, who has been at Wanganui as the‘official accompanist for the competitions, returned to Wellington on Sunday, makiDg the journey by motor.

The president (Air J. Myers) and Messrs A. F. Roberts, J. T. Afartin, D. A. EHren, S. A. Longuet ( vice-president), and A. Fletcher were appointed to represent the Wellington Chamber of Commerce at the conference of Associated Chambers of Commerce, to be held at Auckland on November 21st and 22nd next.

The Rev. J. G. Castle, of the teaching staff of the Palmerston North Boys’ High School, who has been appointed headmaster of the Heretaunga Preparatory School for Boys, at Havelock North, will assume the reins of control at the latter institution in December. The Rev. J. G. Castle was at one time a master at Wellington College.

t Dr ALvurice William Holtze is dead, stales a Press Association cable from I Adelaide. He wa.< t>3 years old ot th© time of his death, and wa© at one time Curator of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. I)r Holtze was born in Hanover, : where he studied botany, continuing his . instruction in the Imperial Gardens in | Petrograd. He went to Australia iu j 1872, and became Curator of the Botani--1 cal Gardens at Port Darwin for 18 year© prior to taking over the Adelaide Gardens. He received the 1.5.0. in 1913.

Tho following new members of the Wellington Chamber of Commence were elected at ihe council meeting yesterday afterno ,n R, \\\ Armit (tobacconist'. Cha--. llickmott (Hickmott and Sons), D. A Little fJosenh Nathan and ;< 0.. Ltd.,), H. F. O’Leary (Bell, Gully, : Mackenzie end O’Lcaryj, J. H. Eiehard- ; son uctired Government Insurance Com- ' missivnerj The president #Mr J. ; Myers.) stated that thirty-five r.ew members had joined tbe chamber during the past quarter, and it was increasing very snti. factorily in numbers.

Mr A. C. Butdiell. secretary of ths Farmei»»* Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., Hamilton, has been granted twelve months’ leave of owing to illhealth. At a meeting of dilectors a high tribute was paid to Air Bus-hell's as an accountant, financier, and orgntiir*er ami to the gre..t work he did us head of the company’s trading department during Mid foliowin gibe war period. Tho hope wa© erpre*->sed that .Mr Bushel! would hate a speedy return to health. Mr Bushel] passed through, Wellington on his way to Christchurch.

Nov.-jj has been received by Sir James Carroll of the death nt Carterton, at tho age of 80 years, of John Jury, better known throughout the North Island aa Te Whatahiro. The decoa-ed was highly educated and tor many years took a prominent part in native affairs. He was well-known for his research work in connection with ancient Alao-i hr.-t< rv. Emm notes obtained trom an old Maori priest, Te Motors ban.;r>. ho .-uppliod the Polynesian Society nith a mass of data which otherwise would have been irrevocably loot. These data ne e published in two bonk*. “Tekanerunga.” or ‘"Things < cle*tial,” and “Tekanoraro.*" or “Things Ter: estrial.”

An old and popular servant of the Public Library «tuff. Mr W. J. ‘Beatty, collapsed and died very suddenly while on duty on Monday afternoon. Mr Beatty was very well known in Wellington. both in his work at the library and among a wide circle of friends, ami had been a member of the etaff for almost thirty years, having joined up in 1396 while a young man in his twenties. He was an old AJarist Brothers schoolboy, and was one of the early pupil.- of St. Patrick’© College, well and kindly remembered by those who we rut to school and college with him. Some little tim© ago he contracted a severe attack of intluenzn. and apparently never completely recovered, since he had been ailing ana had been attended by l)r Markin for some months past. He was a single man and leaver, two sisters and a brother.

I The fup«ral took place yesterday od ! Mr Felix Omillett. a South African ■wax 1 veteran. The interment \va.s at Knrori ; in tlie Military Cemetery, the officiating I clergyman being Chaplain A. \V. H. ! Compton. Chaplain to tho South African Veteran l '’ .Association. Anon? thoM 7m\-ont at the service wore. Lieutenant- , Colonel D. C. Hates (president). Captain J. .L Clarke and other members of fh« S- utb African Veteran."’ Association, and Mr M. I’adrer represented the Returned Soldiers’ Association. Deceased lost a leg during the campaign and for the post five voT' had Ixvn a nev,>vondor with a s + nnd in Cuba street. Prior to joining ♦•he First Contingent Mr (loullott was a member of the yv-lire force an,] wax stntinned at Auckland. He was mounted orderly to Polire Inspector Tliekson during the and polire campaign, io/aimt Ifone i'oia and others in the native trouble at Ifokianga '26 years jvzn. Do was "ingle, and ha.s two sisters residing in the Dominion