PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12040, 19 January 1925, Page 3

PERSONALIA

MINISTERIAL On making inquiries as to tbe healtH of the Prime Minister, a “Times” representative was informed yesterday that Mr Massey is progressing satisfactorily towards recovery. The Hon. W. (Minister for Agriculture) is due hack from New Plymouth and the Waikato district about tire middle of the week. Sir Janies Parr (Minister for Justice and Education) expects .to return to Wellington from the north towards the (end of the week. The Minister for Lands (the Hon. A. D. McLeod) will leave on Tuesday for the north, Tha Minister for Labour. Mines, and Marine (the Hon. G. J. Anderam) is expected to return to Wellington from Thames and Auckland on Tuesday next. Mr diaries Chrystall (Christchurch) passed through Wellington yesterday, en route to Auckland. Mr D. A. J. Rutherford, superintendent of schools at Samoa, arrived in Wellington from the south on Saturday morning on a short visit. The Chief Justice (Sir Robert Strait) .- and Lady Stout arrived in Dunedin on ' Tuesday night from Waimato tb spend' a holiday at St. Clair. Sr Robert wifi go to Invercargill this week to attend" a meeting of the Prisons Board. Dr. J. P. Lotsy, Professor of Botany' at Leyden University Holland, wil visit Christchurch in March. He hai specialised in research into hybridism, and will lecture on 'that subject i* Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland, and Dunedin. He will come to New Zealand' at the invitation of the foul University Colleges in the Dominion, arriving in Wellington on March 9th A A visit to the biological observatory; in tbe Cass Valley, probably, wiR hs included in the Christchureh programme arranged for him. Mr H. L. Richardson, 3C.Sc., of Vie-/ torus University College, who wan awarded _ene of the. first two research! t scholarships provided by the Imperialt College of Science and ‘Technology. London, and the GovAnment of New . Zealand has recently advised the Uhiversit vauthorities m New Zealand of the commencement of his work in the college. The - TJiuroaty ofdLcndon has accepted his application .for registration aa a candidate for its AD, degree, and the Chemical Society that for his admission to a fellowship. / Mr R. H. Simona, railway stotioU-. / master at Dunedin, is retiring on *u4 perannnation after nerving far qnrj forty years. Mr Simons joined jU department as a cadet at, Dunedtg ini 1884. Subsequently he served at] ' Oamaru and Ontram, find finished hie] cadetship in the manager’s offioe, at] Dunedin, in 1887- Then he was sen*' to Port Chalmers jaa derk-in-chargs, and a year later became hooking tderkj at Oamaru. In 1886 he was appointed’ stationmaster at Manriceville and thereafter held similar positions at Mangaonoho, Ohingniti, Aramoho, Barone, and Lambtoc, returning to Dunedin as stationmaster in 1919. The death of Mr R.Wylio is reported from Christchurch. He wan aiormer Mavra- of Kaupoi. He landed in Lyttelton at: tbe ago of twelve. , and at fourteen he was apprenticed to Messrs J. W. Smith end Co., with whom he remained for . sixteen yOara. In IWI he removed to Kaiapni, where ’ he took over the buaineas of a mineral store. Hr Wylie was a member of the Bonqri Council for_ a number of years, and was Mayor in 1911, 1912, and ISIS. In his yoangar days he represented Canterbury on the hockey field, and was also an ectivs member of the Lyttelton Rowing Cfiab,. and the Stanmora and Lyttelton brass • bands. He was well known walovhr, and in one year dripped the Silk which j won tile Canterbury Centre championship. He is survived by a widow, fiye sons, and two daughters. ' The death Charles Ranwow aS. the age of 74, at Auckland, has removed an interesting and much-respected figure from the maritime worid of Auckland. ' Aa the ‘man who had the principal hand in building- up the Northern Steamship Company, said also ‘as a ertiaen or prominence and personal popularity > Mr Bonon wiR be widely missed. The late Mr Hanson came to New Zealand in 1375, and . became interested in the operations oC the Northern Shipping Ctonmy then a struggling oondsrn, in TBB7. Under his adnee the finances of the company, were largely narrswi. The fleet wae gradually enlarged, raiisfly by special construction of vessels ha the Old Country, and also by purchases from - other companies, until, at the tune of Mr Banson’e retirement in July, 1921, it had grown to a total of over 40 vessels, only the Clansman remaining out of the ships which he .took over in 1887. In his youngex days, at Wanganui, Mr Ranaosi engaged in both footinll and cricket, and also in boat-racing, in which he won two silver cups as a member- of fouroared crows. Bowling had been his . chief pastime in recent years. Ho had 1 held the office of president of the Somnera Bowling dub. One of his chief hebbies was the sport of racing. While in. Wanganui he was secretary to the Wanganui Racing CSob, and by Special measures cratside the ordinary administration raised the funds for the first £IOOO stake offered in New Zealand, that for the Wanganui Cup. Aa cooriginator with Sir Robert Nolan of - the Egmcmt Racing dob, he had the direction of its first meeting, which was held in. Hr George McLean’s paddock, and netted a profit to the club of £l5O. On going to Auckland he became a member of tbe Auckland Racing Club, of which he had been a steward for more than twenty yean at bis demise-