PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12116, 18 April 1925, Page 4

PERSONALIA

Mr J. Oraigie. M.L.0.. is at pressa* on a visit to Wellington. Mr J. W. Ca*-d will again be a candidate for the Featherston Mayoralty.

Mr A. Harris, M.P. for Vaitemata, has been visiting Wellington this week.

Mr T, Armstrong, M.P. for Christchurch East, was m Wellington yesterday.

Mr J. McCombs, M.P. for Lyttelton, paid a business visit to Wellington yesterday.

Captain Charles McArthur, of Lower Hutt, is at present confined to his house, suffering trom sciatica. Professor Macmillan Brown, Chancellor of the New Zealand University, arrived from the South by the Wahine yesterday morning. A Press Association cable message from London states that Mr A. Rex Knight, of Sydney, hss been elected senior scholar at Trinity, Cambridge. Dr J. G. Mackereth, of Shannon, has agreed to accept the position of medical officer to the Mangahao Association. and to do the necessary dispensing.

Mr C. A. Cray, late of the Commercial Hotel, Stratford, has taken ovef the new Marquis Hotel, Carterton. Mr and Mrs Fred Brough, late proprietors of the Marquia Hotel, Carterton, intend taking up their residence at Hataitai.

It was reported recently that Sir Herbert Nicliolls, Chief Justice of Tasmania, and Lady Nicholls, would be visiting the Dominion shortly. Advice has been received, however, tnat owing to having to undergo an operation Sir Herbert Nicholls has had to postpone his visit. At the Auckland Acclimatisation Society’s meeting, on April 14th, Mr C. A. Whitney was elected president by a large majority. Mr Whitneys nominees for vice-president and council were also elected. The attendance was the largest that had taken place for the last ten years. Mr J. H. Rowe, manager at Oamaru of the Bank of New South Wales, will retire this month. He joined the Christchurch branch of the bank 41 years ago, and has held positions successively in Timaru, Wellington, Masterton, and Blenheim. Later he was in the inspector’s office, and then took up relieving work. He will live in future in the North Island.

There was a long cortege of sympathising friends at the funeral of the late Mr Stanley Victor Xieolson, which took place at the Clareville Cemetery yesterday afternoon, writes a Vairarapa correspondent. The casket-hear-ers were associates of the deceased, and many beautiful floral tributes were sent. The service at the graveside was conducted by the Rev. Father Hegarty.

At a meeting cf the South Canterbury Hospital Board, the chairman (Rev. T. W. Potts), in introducing Dr Barnett (acting medical superintendent) to the board, made eulogistio reference to his work, especially in connection with iniantile paralysis cases. Dr Telford, when visiting the hospital, had spoken highly of Dr Barnett, who had worked night and day attending to patients.

The death is reported of Mr Arthur (Dib) Tuckey. of Ohingniti, which occurred at Taihape. The late Mr Tuckey had been in bad health for somo time, and was in hospital at TaiJiape. He was a son of tho late Rev. H. E. Tuckey, and the late Mrs Tuckey, old pioneer residents of Nelson and Wellington. Air Arthur Tuckey lost one son. who was killed at the Front; another, Sergeant-Major J. B. Tuckey, was one of those who lelt New Zealand with the first troops, and who saw service to the end of the war, returning after the Armistice, after having received the Military Medal, nnd with a fine record of continuous service. Mr Tuckey was well known for his geniality and kindness, and much sympathy will be felt for hie widow and family.

A pioneer settler and one of the earliest residents of the district, Mr Gideon Inkster, of Normanby, Taranaki, died on Sunday. He was bom 95 years ago in the Shetland Islands, and came out to Australia in the ’fifties of last century. After some years in Adelaida, he left for Sydney, and shortly after sailed for New Zealand in the schooner Ureadalbans, reaching Auckland in 1861. He went to the gold diggings in Otago, and was some years at Dunstan. From there he returned to the North Island, settling in the Manawatu, and in 1870 he went to Taranaki, and bought land at Normanby, which was his home until his death. He was an active worker on public bodies, and was one of the earliest members of the Vaimate Vest Road Board and the Hawera County Council. He was one of the promoters of the present A. and P. Association.