PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12076, 2 March 1925, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Dr. E. Gordon Anderson left by tbe Aorangi on Saturday on a visit to Australia.

The Rev. S. Robeitson Orr has left Wellington for Auckland, en route for the United States and Great Britain.

The Rev. F. E. Harry, who, as president of the Baptist. Union, has been visiting the South Island, has returned to Wellington.

Mr Justice Frazer and Messrs Hiram Hunter and W. Scott, of the Arbitration Court, arrived in Wellington on Saturday.'

Mr G. E. Bunting, Australian manager of the Canadian Government Merchant Marine, was a passenger by the Aorangi for Sydney.

Dr. Sidney C. Allen left Auckland on Friday, and will be absent for about six months. He will travel to England by a steamer leaving Wellington shortly.

, Mr E. Y. Redward, Crown Solicitor and Revising Barrister , for Friendly Societies, who has retired after forty years’ service, has consented to take up the position of Compiler of Statutes in succession to the Hon. Sir Frederick Chapman.

Mr H. A. Rußsell, president of the i Hawke’s Bay A. and P. Association, f is a visitor to Christchurch at present, < and visited the Canterbury A. and P., Association’s show grounds .at .Addington for the purpose of viewing the . sheep pens particularly.

Sir James Parr (Minister for Edu-_ cation) and Mr F. Tate (Director, erf I Education in Victoria), who is ihvesti- ; gating tbe Dominion’s education sys- • tern, visited Westport on Friday Mid] received deputations. Mr Tata address- j ed the school teachers, and left for , v Reefton in the afternoon. s Mr J. C. Schneider, transport officer, Christchurch, who has been act-] ing as chief clerk to the . District 1 Traffic Manager, Christchurch, and who! has been appointed to a position in the head'office, New Zealand Railways. Wellington, is to be succeeded by Mr H. L. Gibson, train running officer, Christchurch, in the position of transport officer. . Mr H. L. Wise, son of Mr H. Td Wise, Antigua street, Christchurch, ] has received advioe -that he has qualified for his M. Com. degree with firstclass honours in economics. He 'wrote! a thesis on the result of research inti regard to the income taxation of componies in New Zealand. Mr Wise, who is an old boy of Christ’s College, is the first graduate of Canterbury College to obtain this degree. Mr F. L. N. Tuck, of Wellington, was appointed to the teaching staff of the Gore High School by the Board of Governors at its meeting on Tuesday. Mr Tuck has bad about 14* yean* teaching experience, most of which has been spent in New Zealand—viz., Nelron College five years, and Auckland Technical College four and a half years. The other four years-have been spent at Barking Abbey Secondary School, in Ebscx, England. Mr Tuck will' commence duty at Gore at the end of March. ♦ Mr Robert. Scott, on his retirement from the position of overseer of the plumbing branch of the PuMic Works Department, .after 33 years’ service, tops the Recipient of a gold watch from the officers and men of the head . office, district office, and(public service workshops. Mr. F. W. Furkert, Engineer-in-Chief. in' making Che presentation, spoke of Mr Scott’s excellent service, and wished him a very happy future in his retirement. Mr G. J. McKenzie, assistant chief engineer, and Messrs Sharp, Waldie. and Ranhah, district engineers. endorsed Mr Furkert’s remarks. On behalf of .the plumbing staff, Mr J. Eliott presented Mr Scott with a case of pipes.

' Members of the Railway Board and officers of the Locomotive Branch met together.on Saturday morning to farewrii Mr E. E. Gillon. who. after over forty years with the department, latterly as chief mechanical engineer, has now retired on superannuation. Mr Gillon joined the service ae an apprentice at the Hillside workshops, Dunedin, in 1884. and worked bis way to the top. on the road and in headquarter) office. The presentation.- which wm made by the chairman, of the board (Mr F.. J. Jones), consisted of a very handsome nui'se of sovereigns, and' with it went the best wishes of the fellow-officers and members of tbe branch'. In (reply, Mr Gillon stressed tbe necessity of loyalty and warm .cooperation. At present the service was in a state of reorganisation. . and it was for the men to prove what .their capabilities were.. Mr Gillon proposes to enter into* priyate practice "as a consulting engineer in Wellington.

The founder of the firm of Minton and Co.. Mr William Minson. died,in Christclmrc]) on -Friday at the age of 82. Hd was born in Huntingdonshire in 1843. and- arrived in New Zealand 33 years ago. He retired from business about 2o years ago. and entirely severed his ■ connection with tbe business in Colombo street 10 rears ago. For many years the late Mr Minson took an active interest in local affairs. and was a prominent memhey of the Board of Governors of tho .Christ-qh-urch Technical College. He was chairman of the Technical Committee which formulated a scheme of technical education in -Christchurch. He was also chairman of the commusfcp' which visited (many parts of the pravinoe'tritaVe evidence ort the farm labourers’ dispute which occurred' about IS . rears ago. He was an active member of the Canterbury: Chamber of Commerce and the. Industrial Association, and was chairman of tbe Home Ind”striee Committee of' tbe exhibition held i» Christchurch *in 1906-07. Ho w»« a keen bowler, and. one of the old memhe-s of the Christchurch Bowling jClnh. The late Mr Minson was nredeceased hv his wife by 10 years. He leave* five daughters and two sons: —Mrs C. J. Moodv fDnnedin)- Airs Ch-rles Hn- + - irurs (Wisconsin. H.S.A.V Mrs H. F. Roberts. Mrs A. T,. Roberts, it-s A. E. Kincaid.' end Messrs 4. W. Minson and W. L. Minson (all of Christchurch).

Mr .T. D. Siewriaht has definitely 'Seri tied to accede to wishes expressed that he should offer himself as a c»ndid»te ek the City Coutwil election, and he i* SW. ranging to address a series ot meetings in carious parts of the city before tbe election. Mr Hturb Frawford. and Mr Waller end fleorre Todd, brother end nncles to Cenfain Crawford, were included in th# visitors to the Aorangi while she was in port. The death in Auckland is reported of Mr W'Uiam TTenrv Ruck, seed S 7. a Maori War Veter-- father of Dr. P. H. Buck, Director of Maori Hygiene. At a recent meeting of the New Zealand Society of Accountants Mr T. C. Brash was granted the status of Fallow Registered Accountant.