PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12168, 19 June 1925, Page 4

PERSONALIA

MINISTERIAL The Hon. R. F. Bollard left for th# north last night, and this evening he will open the Pukekohe show. He returns to Wellington <sn Monday. The Hon. A. D. McLeod goes to Feildmg to-day. The Mayer of Christchurch (the Rev. J. K. Archer) is in Wellington. Mr S. S. Dean was visiting Feilding yesterday, and returns to town to-day. Mr John Newton has been appointed superintendent of marine for the port of Foxton. Mr John Fitzgerald has been appointed District Public Trustee at Nelson. Mr David MoCready has been appointed registrar of births, deaths, and marriages for the Eltham district. Mr A. 9. Louisson has been appointed Deputy Registrar pf the Supreme Court at Nelson. Mr Herbert Frood has been appointed assistant land registrar at Nelson. Mr Albert Spencer, president of the Auckland Employers’ Association, who has been on a visit to Wellington, left for Auckland yesterday. Messrs R. Masters and O. J. Haw’ken, M.P.’s respectively for Strat ford and Egmont, are in Wellington attending the Fusion Conference. Mr J. A. Louisson has been appointed registrar of electors for the Hutt electoral district, and registrar of births and deaths for the Petone district. Mr F. W. Richmond has been appointed assistant land registrar and examiner of titles at Wellington; and Messrs F. D. Morris and W. J. Cuttance have been- appointed assistant land registrars at W ellington. The health of Dr. G. Home, of New Plymouth, necessitates that he should undergo an operation immediately. He has gone to Auckland, where tbe operation will be performed by Dr. Carrick Robertson. Mr John P. Watt, one of Waneanni’s oldest settlers, died at the ago of 78. He was born at Wanganui in 1847, and received his early schooling there, proceeding later to England. He wag a prominent business man for some years, but more recently he occupied the position of borough vainer, from which he retired a year ago. Mr F. S. Hodgson, recently appointed to the new position of bacteriologist for Taranaki, with headquarters at New Plymouth, has arrived at New Plymouth from Christchurch to taka up his new’ duties. The fitting up of the laboratory is well in hand, but most of the apparatus will probably not reach New Plymouth for a month or two. The death occurred at Mahurangi Heads on Saturday of C.aptain William Sullivan, one of the oldest residents of the district, and for many years a popular master in command of vessels of the Northern Company. The late Captain Sullivan was bom at Mahutangi in 1848. Owing to ill-health he retired from the sea in 1918. He is survived by his widow, six sons, and I two daughters. Members of the Wellington Bar yesterday morning convened their’ congratulations to Mr Justice Hosking on the Imnour of knighthood recently conferred on him by His Majesty the King. Mr A. Gray, K.C., said that members of the Bar had received the news of the honour with very great pleasure indeed, and they thought that it was very well deserved indeed. They trusted that Mr Justice Hosking would be spared for very many years to wear the title. In reply, Mr Justioe Hosking thanked members of the I Bar for their quite.unexpected demonstration of pleasure. The many congratulations he had received during the past few weeks had given him far greater pleasure, he was sure, than any honour that could have been conferred.

In the death of Mr Domingo V. Hobbs, of Khandallah, another of tlie very early settlers of the Wellington province lias passed away. The deceased was born in London on March 7th, 1841, and sailed with his parents from Gravesend, Deal, on October 13th of the same year in the ship Birman, commanded by Captain John Clcland, a craft of only 544 tons register, arriving at Port Nicholson on March Ist of ihe following year. Among the deceased’s shipmates were such wellknown people as Messrs Clapham, Tavlor, Tonka, and others. The late Mr Hobbs was engaged for a number of years in the sawmilling business, hut afterwards took up farming. During the troublesome times of the Maori Wars he served for a period of fourteen years as a volunteer under the command of the late Captain (Dr.' Taylor, and took part in the capture of the natives who escaped from tho prison hulk off Kaiwarra in 1867. Mr Hobbs took a prominent part in furthering tho construction of tho Wellington and Manawatu Railway line when the work was taken over by the company, of which tho late Mr James Wallace was the first genera! manager. For a number of years he was a member of the Onslow Borough Council, and was one of the principal promoters of the present main road from Kaiwarra to Khandallah. Mr Hobbs was a resident of Khandallah for oyer seventy-five years. In 1855 he married a daughter of the late Mrs Samuel Aston, of Ohariu Valley, who predeceased him eight years ago. and tbe surviving family consists of three daughters, Mrs S. Chapman (of Tariki, Taranaki). Mrs W. Barker, and Mrs W. Gray (of Shannon), and one son, Mr E. Hobbs (of Khandallah).