PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12023, 29 December 1924, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Mr W. S. Glenn, M-P. for Rangitikrf, is visiting Auckland. The Hon. Mark Cohen, M.L.C., ha? been visiting Wellington. The Kev. G. E. Moreton, of Dunedin, is in Picton, where he will spend a short holiday. Mr and Mrs J. Dwyer and Mr J. Ambrose, of Wellington, are visiting Auckland. Mr L. Macintosh Ellis will continue as Director of Forestry for a further three years. Mr and Mrs F. Hanson and Mr and Mrs Percy Sinclair, of Wellington, are at Auckland. Mr Donald Macfarlane, a visitor to New Zealand from Scotland, is tourins New Zealand. Messrs Louis Juta and J. J. F. du Toit, both of Pretoria, South Africa, who are touring the Dominion, are in Dunedin. The Rev. W. H. Howes, minister of the Presbyterian Church at Rangiora, has ac. cepted a call to Carterton. Mr Atkin Commons, of Tientsin, who arrived in Auckland by the Ulimaroa, will be in Wellington shortly. Mr D. G. A. Cooper has been appointed a temporary member,of the Prisons Board, in the absence of Dr. J. F. S. Hay. Mr Soren Peter Anderson has been appointed Danish Vice-Consul at Auckland, in the place of Mr Howard Parris Richmond, resigned. Mr A. H. Sinel, of the New Zealand Shipping Company, accompanied by Mrs Sinel, has left Auckland on a holiday visit to Gisborne. Mr O. J. Wright, accountant at the chief post .office, Hamilton, his been promoted to a similar position at Christchurch. A cablegram front Sydney states that Cabinet has appointed Mr Fraser Chief Railway Commissioner And Messrs Brian and Forster, assistant Commissioner* Mr Harry McKeowen, of the Bail ways Department, Christchurch, accompanied by Mrs McEeowen. after holiday making in the North Island, have returned home. Mr Wilfred Hugh Spalton, for many years head - shopman for the Gear Meat Company, died on Monday last, after a long illness. The funeral took place op Tuesday. He is survived by his wife. Mr W. Dill-Macky, who has beeif relieving instructor in agriculture to the Auckland Education Board during the year, has been appointed instructor in * agriculture for the Taranaki district. Mr J. D. Gray, TJnder-Secrctary for External Affairs, and Mr and Mrs H. F. Griffin, of Samoa, are on a visit to Auckland. Mr and Mrs T. Coverdale and Mr G. T. Coverdale (South Waikato) and Mr J. Ambrose (Wellington) are also in the northern city. i Mr N. Stead, the well-known Southland footballer, who was rice-captain of the New Zealand native team in Australia.. has been transferred from InvercargiT to the Wanganui branch of the Bank o Zealand. He will play for the £ai a ran team next season. \ Mr and Mis T. H. Lowry, of Hawky'f Bay, Mr and Mrs V. Riddiford, of Ix>we? tint*, and Mr E. Riddiford. of Welling, ton Mr and Mrs H. L. Nathan, of Wellington, Mr and Mrs D. of Chririchurch, Mr De Bathe Brandon, of Wei lington.' and Messrs J. S. McLeod, and F. C. Fryer, of Hastings, are visitors tc Auckland. It was recently cabled that Professor Edgeworth David had retired from the Chair of Geology and Physical Geography after 33 years' service, states a cable me*r ■sage from Sydney. Professor David, whei is Australia’s foremost geologist, aceom panied the- late Sir Ernest Shackleton oi . his first voyage to the Antarctic. Hw<>r ganised and led the Miners Battalio? in the Great War. Mr F. H. P- Chinchen, assistant .nan ager of the Auckland branch of the Nw tional Bank of New Zealand, has beer promoted to the position of assistant* manager at the head office of the bank _i a London, in succession to Mr C. M. Bahtin, who will retire on pension on March 31st. Mr Chinchen and family will leave for London by the Corinthic, from Welling ton, early in February. Dr. A. R. Falconer, medical superintendent of the Dunedin Hospital, who has been on a visit to America for the purpose of studying hospital methods and health activities in that country, Ji as returned to Dunedin. While in America, Dr Falooner attended conferences of the American College of Surgeons in New York, at the American Hospital Association, in Buffalo, the American Dietetic'Association in Boston, and the surgical conference of the Canadian section of the American College of Surgeons in pegA presentation in the form of an oak cabinet-gramophone, was made on board H.M.S. Dunedin to Mr T. W. Hushes, late Master-at-Arms of H.M.S. Chatham, on the occasion of his retirement from, the Royal Navy, after serving for a period of 28 years. C. P. O. Scully made the presentation on behalf of the ship’s eompanr, .and, at the conclusion, called for three cheers for the recipient. Mr Hughes replied, thanking the donors for gift, and saying that th« three years he had spent in the NcV Zealand station were undoubted); amorcgt the happiest of his life. / "j There passed away at the Tbalmj* Hospital Mr Thomas Kilgour, at tl)e age of 85. Hie late Mr Kilgour, who was h very old and respected resident of Thames, arrived in Auckland with his parents on the ship Jane Gifford Tn 1842, and took up his residence at .Onehunga. He came to Thames when the field opened, and has resided there ever since, holding many important seats on local bodies. Ho always took a keen interest in the welfare of the Thames Hospital, being chairman of the board for many veers. 'He also was a member of the Thames Connty Council and the Thames Drainage Board for lengthy periods. Mr hii-gf-ur’s wife predeceased hint ahopt 'Wo years ago. He leaves a £rown-np family of four daughters and,■ four sons and a great many grandchildren and gieat-gvandchildren. There died in Wellington Hospital a well-known figure in marine engineering in the person of Engineer-Lieuten-ant Ernest Denton R.S.R. Deceased was born in 1874 at Kyde, Cheshire, and sewed with several prominent engineering firms in England until 1901, when he" came out to New Zealand. _He returned to England on the Eifeshire, and sailed for some years as marine engineer with Lamport and Holt and other lines. In 1908 he came out to New, Zealand again and was appointed instructor in engineering at the Christchurch Technical School. At the outbreak of the Great Mar. the lato Mr Denton was engaged on Diesel engine work at Home, and he supervised the installation of Diesel machinery on H.M.S Elizabeth, also being engaged 1 i:i the operations on the Belgian coast. I In 1917 he installed the Diesel machinery on H.M.S. Renown, and after fur. ther war service, was repatriated tc New Zealand. Here, in spite of illhealth. he served on several coastal ves- ] sels, and left the ill-fated Ripple just I before she was lost with all hand*.