PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11910, 18 August 1924, Page 3

PERSONALIA

The Hon. J. Parr, Minister for Edu* cation, left Wellington for Auckland on Saturday.

The secretary of the Woodville Rabbit Association has received word that Mr W. G. Vesty. n^Jute^ f £>r the association* died in the Waipukurau hospital.

The Minister for Education (Hon. C. J. Parr) has agreed to lay the foundation stone of the new Christchfifgh Ttaftiing College building. The date for the ceremony has not been fixed yet. .i'

'“'Mi* 1 H. Clouston. of tbe Wellington staff of Ros 6 and Giendining, Ltd., who has been appointed to take charge of the New Plymouth branch of the firm's business, has left to take up his new duties.

A civic reception is to be tendered Professor John Adams, a distinguished English educationist, in the Concert Chamber. Town Hall, at noon to-day. Professor Adams, who will arrive at Wellington this morning by the Tahiti, will have a short stay only in Wellington, and and will leave for the South Island tomorrow evening.

Mr E. H. McDowall. who is about to leave New Zealand to continue his research work' at Home, has had to resign his position as secretary of the Otago Institute. The council of the Institute has filled the vacancy by appointing Mr R. S. - Allan as its secretary. < < /Thai vacancy on the council caused, by the death of tbe late Dr R. V. Fulton has been,ffUed by the appointment of Professor Park.

Mr J. D. Gillies, district engineer of the Public Works Department for Canter, bury, will retire from the service at the end of the present month, and. Mr H. Watkinson, the assistant-engineer, "who represented the Public Works Department at Otira prior to the transfer of control of the tunnel to the Railway Department, will succeed him (states the Christchurch "Press"). Mr Gillies has had a long and honourable connection \ with the public service.

Mr John Gillespie, a well-known resident of Gillespie's line, has died, at the age of 73 years. Born at Pleon, Scotland, he came to New Zealand as a lad 57 years ago, and for a time resided at Ren wicktown, Marlborough. Afterwards he went'to the Turon goldfield, in New South Wales* but later returned to New Zealand, and remained at Renwicktown contracting ’until 1876. He theftr joined the police force; being for a trme' in charge of the Hutt district, and later -at Palmerston North, FeiMing, Waitara, Whitecliffe, Normanby, Manaia, Foxton and Temuka. In 1910 he severed his connection, .with force, and commenced farming upon., a blockof land, which he had -purchased in 1881. He is survived bj a faniily .oi six sons, four of whom saw servjcp jjj the Great War, and four daughters. Hii wife passed away eleven weeks ago- /

Mr William 'Ross, who was ffoyid dead on the railway line BgiT very well-known in ‘ana" in addition, a prominentmenabeFin cne of the South Island Masonic lodges, at well as being a member *of the Oddfellows* fraternity. Mr Ross -had ' been spending holidays with Mr and Mrs Axel Peterson, of 19, Essex street,-and had decided to leave on a visit to friends, in Port ChaJmer>. He. was bprn at Inverness (Harhenech/Scotland), and left there in 1887, finally shipping as a member of the military staff of the convict ship Success, and reaching Melbourne in *B9l. Since that date he had followed the calling p of the sea, and was a'qualified submarine miner, and a -renner in the Port Chalmers Naval Artillery, as a member of which he served on the troopship! during the war. He was last in the services of the Union Company on* the -siii Waiotapu. P r>i

The death occurred at ‘ W«llingidn *oi Mr R. G. Poulton, formerly Registrar of Births. Deaths, and Marrages, ~ “and Electoral Officer in Christchurch. The late Mr Poulton, who was forty yearn of age, was the second eon of Hr G. H. R. G, Poulton, of Wellington,.and the qnly brother of Mr h. N. G. Fbnltbh,~at one time of Press circles of Wellington and Auckland, and for many years a Ministerial secretary. Bora-in Wellington, the deceased, wos on the staff, of /'The New Zealand Mail," and before „ his appointment to .the Registrar-General's, Department in Wellington was & frequent contributor of black-and-white sketchs. to periodicals in New Zealand and in Australia. On Christmas Eve last, just prior to his appointment as Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages at Wellington, the late Mr Poulton underwent an operation in this city, and was progressing favourably until complications 6et in & few days ago,'from which he succumbed. The deceased, w|io leaves a widow and two young children, was interred at the_Fa* tori Cemetery' on Saturday, the Rev. H, Watsbn/of l pt. Peter's, ‘officiating at thf graveside.