PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11738, 28 January 1924, Page 3

PERSONALIA

MINISTERIAL The Hon G. J. Anderson, Minister for Marine, Mines, and Labour, accompanied by Mr 0. B. Macmillan, M.P., visited Muir’s Gold Reefs at Te Puke at the end of vhe week. The Minister inspected the mine workings. He then went to Tauranga and made an inspection of the harbour. Mr Anderson left on Saturday morning for Matamata, to catch the evening's Main Trunk express at Hamilton for Wellington. The Hon. Downie Stewart was a passenger from Lyttelton by the Wahine .yesterday. Judge Gilfedder, of the Native Land Court, is in Wellington. Mr S. Cory-Wright has returned to Auckland from Dunedin. Mr Harold G. Miller, the 1918 New Zealand Rhodes scholar, has taken his B.A. degree at Balliol College, Oxford. Mr Archibald MoOallum has been appointed a member of the Marlborough Land Board. Mr Norman Webley has been appointed District Public Trustee at Dannevirke. Mr J. H. Hiddleston, who has bj-~i with the Wellington team, in Otago, returned home yesterday. Messrs A'. E. Rhodes and A. E. Shaw, of Wellington, are at present in the northern city. Mr “Dorrie” Leslie, well-known athletic coach, returned north by the Wabine yesterday. He has been with the Wellington cricket team in Otago. Mr J. T. Bishop has been appointed clerk of the Licensing Committee for the Wairarapa district, in place of Mr H. G. Smith, on leave. Captain A. O. Boccard, of Sydney, and Messrs J. lameson and T. , W. Lewis, of Christchurch, are proceeding from Auckland to Wanganui. Mr T. D. Lennio, president of the New Zealand Nurserymen’s Association, is in Auckland on an official tour of the Dominion. Mr W. S. Glenn, M.P. for Ran<ri tikei, Messrs J. D. Birrell, J. H. McAlister, and J. T. Martin, of Wellington. are at the Grand Hotel, Auckland. The Rev. Argyll Saxby, the new pastor of the Tennyaon street Congregational Church, Christchurch, has arrived from Australia to take up his new duties. Mr and Mrs V. Grace, of Wanganui, Mr and Mrs E. D. Black, ot Malvern, Victoria, Mr and Mrs G. R.. Stenson, of Wimhleton, London, are staying in Auckland.' Mr R. Wedderspoon, who has been engaged in the South Island in the I preparation of literature delineating the beauties of New Zealand, for the British Elmpire Exhibition, returned to Wellington yesterday. Mr Samuel Percival Norwood. Superintendent of Police for the district of Dunedin, has been appointed an inspector of anatomy at Dunedin in succession to Superintendent R. Mareack, who has retired; Mr David Smith, manager of Schneidemann’s Ltd., Christcnurch, has been transferred to Wellington, where he will undertake the duties of genmanager at the firm’s headquarters. The following registrars of births, deaths, and marriages have been appointed :—Alfred William Downer, Buller; Lothair Aris Chat win, Stratford; John Theophilus Bishop, Masterton. / A cable message received in Wei lingtc.n from the Hon. James Craigie, M.L.C., who is making a world tour, states that he is spending a few days in Jerusalem. He will proceed to Egypt and then to the Continent and Britain. Mr A. E. Stephen, manager of the Chilian Nitrate Committee, Sydney, is due in Wellington by the Maunganui on Monday. He will lecture with lantern slides on ‘ ‘Chile and Its Industries,” under the auspices of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. Mr W. M. Speyer, manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company for the United States, has arrived by the R.M.S. Makui'a. He is accompanied by Mrs Speyer, and .will spend eeveral weeks in New Zealand, probably visiting Australia. At a complimentary social a presentation of a portable typewriter and a gold albert jvas made to Mr A. L. Monteith, M.P., with a brooch for Airs Monteith, in recognition of his services as secretary of the Tramwaymeu’s Union for the last four years. Archbishop Clune, of Perth, who has been on a brief visit to Fiji, has returned to Auckland by the R.M.S. Makura, and will be the guest of Bishop Cleary until he goes south to attend the jubilee celebrations of Archbishop Redwood at Wellington. Mr W. Scott, the representative of the employers on the Arbitration Court, has arri-ed in Wellington from Auckland, where he has been making a stay. He will accompany Mr Justice Frazer south on Friday night, en route to Dunedin, where the court will hold its first sitting this year. Mr Charles E. E. Childers, consul for His Majesty’s Government at Pittsburg, U.8.A., who has been paying a visit to New Zealand, left Wellington during the week-end for Sydney. During his stay Mr Childers visited the South Island, and spent some time at Mount -Cook. He is on his second world tour within the last three years. Mr Childers is a son of the Right Hon Hugh Gardley Childers, who wan Chancellor of tfie Exchequer, and held other offices under Mr Gladstone. Mr George Owles. whose death is reported from British East Africa, as the result of a motor aocident, wis the well-known Otago Rugby wingthroequarter of the seasons of 1920 and 1921, when he represented his province eleven times. He was a member of the famous army team which wen the King’s cup after the Armistice. He was for some, years a member of the Permanent Artillery stationed at Wellington and Dunedin, and he had good war service.

Mr Charles E. Reid, of Invercargill, is at present on a visit to Wellington, and is staying with his relatives, Mr and Mrs W. Fraser, 37, Hawker street. I _ Dr. O. E. Weatherburn, who has relinquished the position of lecturer m mathamatius and natural philosophy at Melbourne University to accept the appointment cf professor of mathematics at Canterbury College, has returned to Wellington from Sydney. Ho is accompanied by Mrs Weatherburn and three sons. Sir George Fenwick, prior to his leaving for a holiday in England, was entertained by the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce to a luncheon. About 100 business men were present, and the chairman of the chamber (Mr Peter Barr) presided. Among those present were Sir John Roberts, the Minister of Industries and Commerce (Hon. W. Downie Stewart), the Mayor of Dunedin (Mr H. L. Taplev), Jlr G. L. Denniston, and Mr A. S. 'Paterson.' The Rev. Dr. J. Alfred Sharp, of London, is to arrive to-day by the s.s. Maunganui from Sydney. 'He is a prominent minister and an ex-president of the English Wesleyan Methodist Church, and is in charge of the large connexional book-room business in Oty road, London. He is visiting New Zealand, in connection with his world tour in relation to matters connected with that establishment. Dr. Sharp is a well-known Freeniaeon; he possesses outstanding abilities as a temperance advocate. The death occurred on Saturday of Mr J. D. Millton, of Birch Hill, at the age of 64 (says a Press Association messaee). Mr Milltcn arrived in New Zealand at an early age with his parents, who settled at Birch Hill. Upon the death of his father the property was divided between the late Mr. Millton and his brother, Colonel Millton. Mr Millton leaves a wife and one son, who is now associate to Sir Frederick Chapman, and was previously aide-de-camp to the Governor-General. In earlier years Mr Millton was a wellknown footballer, having represented Canterbury at one time. He was on the Military Service Board during the war. Mr William Acton Adams, an early Nelson colonist, who died in London recently at the age of 80 years, arrived u. Nelsoa in 1850 with his parents, and was the eldest son of the late Mr William Adams, first Superintendent of Marlborough, and leader of the move-. ™cnt for the separation of the Wairau district from Nelson, which resulted in the creation of the Marlborough province in 1859. Mr Acton Adams who formerly was a partner in the Nelson legal firm of Messrs Adams and Kingdon, represented Nelson in the House of Representatives for a term in 1879. He afterwards resided in Canterbury, but removed to England several years ago. He leaves three sons and a daughter. Mr Ronald William Saint-Glair, formerly of Auckland, who died at Thames Ditton, England, in November, was widely known in Auckland business circles. He was an enthusiast in "all matters relating to swimming and lifesaving, and was a life member of ths Auckland Swimming Club. Formerly he was a keen oarsman, and belonged to the Star Boating Club, Wellington. At a later date he was a member of the Wr.itemata Rowing Club. Mr Saint-Glair was- one of the founders of the Auckland Accountants’ Association. and an original member of the Pacific Club. He was also a member of the Auckland Golf Club, and belonged to the A Battery Volunteers. Until his denurture for Canada, Air Saint-Glair held in Auckland the position of Vico Consul for Norway. His wife prede ceased him by about fifteen months.