PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11874, 7 July 1924, Page 3

PERSONALIA

- Sir John Roberts -di as—returned tt Dunedin after a- Tisib-do—Wellington.'

Dr. Seagar was a passenger by the Maheno for Sydney on Saturday. Ho is. en route to England, ~

The Hon. Brinsley Pluuket, of Christchurch, is at present in Auckland.

Mr G. W. Rudd, president of the Marlborough A. and P. Association, who i 4 on a visit to Feilding, is a wellknown Marlborough sheepfarmer and a member of various local bodies in that province.

Air It. B. Ross, formerly M.P. for Pahiatua, who has for the past thirteen years been- a wcmbac of the Hawke’s Bay Land Boatc4~has resigned position qw-iqg taJUI-health. •,

Mr, T,. O. Bishop (secretary of the Employers’ Federation), who lias been on a brief visit to Dunedin, has returned to Wellington.

Surgeon-Cbmmander Watson, R.N , late of H.M.S. Laburnum, is leaving Lyttelton on' Thursday afternoon next as sliip’s doctor of the Port Victor.

Mr Janies A. Warwick, chairman of the reserves committee of the Auckland Oity Council, and acting-presi-dent of the Auckland Automobile Association, is at present in Wellington on a business visit. He expects to be in town for about a week.

- ■ Professor John Adams, Kmeritpx Professor of Education at London. Jjniveisity, will arrive in Auckland from Australia this month on a visit to the university colleges of the Dominion. The invitation to do so was extended to Professor Adams by tho Government. For the past 12 months he has been Acting-Professor of Education in the University of California.'»

Mr C. M. Turrell, traffic manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company, is at present in Auckland as a member of the Conciliation Council, which has been set up in connection with ths waterside workers’ new award. tie will later visit Napier, Dunedin, and Christchurch, and is expected to return to Wellington about the 25th inst.

Mr Thos. Brook, Crown Lands Commissioner, who has been presiding over a commission investigating objections to the inclusion of certain lands in the Manawatu-Oroua .River Board’s area, returned to Wellington on Saturday. The commission has viewed the localities affected and its finding will he announced later by {lib Governor-General.

At the opening of the AngUrMi Synod in Nelson Hie Bishop announced that the Rev. O. J. Kimberley had been elected to the vacant seat on the was duly, installed a.t.Alui garvice in the Cathedral that eyenmg. Canon Kimberley was ordained in St. AndreyjV Cathedral, Sydney, by the Primate of Australia. He came to the Dominion on the invitation of'the New Zealafsa Church Missionary Society to act as its secretary in New Zealand After occupying this' position for sever'd! years he was appointed first general secretary of the New Zealand Board'dr Missions. Canon Kimberley accepted the charge of Seddon and Ward during the latter part of 1922.

Mr A. G. Dear, a well-known resident of Kongotea, is at present in hospital, suffering from a poisoned arm. At Saturday’s meeting of tho Manawatn provincial executive of the New Zealand fWmers’ Union, of which he is a member, it was decided to forward him a letter of sympathy ex pressing wishes for his speedy recovery. ~

The death is announced at Christ* church of Mr James Nancarrow, a very old- aged eighty-four. -He settled in Christchurch in 1866 as .a market gardener and fruit importer. He was a member of the first Horticultural Society (formed in 1872) and member of the Fruitgrowers’ Association, .apd also of the Christchurch Poultry Association in it 9 early days. Mr Nancarrow pioneered outdoor to-mato-growing in Canterbury, and in 1880 was the first to grow tomatoes .under glass.. He purchased the Waltham vineyards in 1879, and for sixteen years continued business as. a grape grower, being noted for the ex cellent quality of his produce and being very successful with his exhibits at the 1832 Exhibition. He was also the first person in Christchurch to grow cucumbers in an up-to-date cu-cumber-house. He disposed of his vineyards to go to Australia for some time, but ultimately returned to New Zealand to re-enter the fruit business. Some time later be acquired Nixon’s poultry farm at Burwocd, which he retained until quite recently. He had been always a most successful exhibitor of poultry,, and acted na judge on many occasions. He leaves six children, nineteen grandchildren and twenty-three great-grandchildren.

Tho following delegates will. represent the Otago Provincial Council at the annual conference of the New ZeidSrta ’Farthers* IJmon, which will be held in Wellington shortly: Messrs Leary (president), Alurney, Overton, Christie and Cameron (searetary), Mr F. Waite, who was appointed a dele gate at the annual conference laM month, will be unable to attend.'