PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12197, 23 July 1925, Page 4

PERSONALIA

Messrs T. W. Rapley, O. J. Tanner, and H. E. Burton, of Wellington, are at Auckland.

Messrs M. C. Carter, W. Kirker, and J. Stewart (Wellington) are at Christchurch.

Mr Justice Adams has sufficiently recovered from his recent operations to be able to leave the hospital for bis home.

Mr R. Bishop, sales manager for the H. W. Peabody Automobile Company, of New York, arrived by the Niagara en route to Australia.

Among the passengers by the Arawa, en route to Auckland from Home, is the Rev. F. M. Molyneux. Assistant-Bisbop-designate of Melanesia.

Major-General Melvill, General Officer Commanding New Zealand Defence Forces, wa9 a passenger by the Maqtt from the south yesterday.

The Hons. J. Barr, R. Moore, M.L.C., A. S. Malcolm, and G. J. Smith, C.8.E., arrived from Lyttelton by the ferry steamer Maori yesterday. Messrs D. G. Sullivan, J. A. MacPherson, F. J. Holies ton, J. O’Brien, and J. Bitchener, M.P.’s, have returned to Wellington from the south. Mr W. I. Clark, a new member of the council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, was welcomed at the meeting yesterday by the president, Mr W. J. McGowan. Mr Clark represents the building trades. Sir Aaron T. Danks, steel manufacturer, Melbourne, and Mr D. Y. Syme, managing director of the Melbourne Steamship Company, returned by the Niagara, after making the round trip on the vessel to Vancouver. Mr T. H. Speedy, chief Government surveyor at Jesselton, North Borneo, is on 15 months’ furlough in New Zealand. Mr Speedy, who was formerly in practice in Auckland, has beetpflfcationed at Jesselton for six years.

Messrs H. D. Bennett. G. Mitchell, and Captain McArthur have been deputed to act with the chairman (Mr M. Cohen) as delegates from the Wellington Harbour Board to the annual conference of the Harbours Association in Dunedin next March. Mr William Reid, who was Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge, 1.0.0. F., from 1877 till a year ago, died yesterday, at the age of 80, states a Press Association message from Dunedin. On retiring from the Grand Secretaryahip he was appoinmMl Consulting Grand Secretary. The death occurred yesterday at Thames of Mr William McCullough, formerly a Legislative Councillor, and proprietor and editor of the Thames “Star” for over 30 years (says a Press Association message). He had been living in retirement for the past five years, and his end, though sudden, was not unexpected.

Advice has been received that Dr F. T, Bowerhank, of Wellington, who is at present in Britain, has obtained the degree of M.R.C.P. (Edin.). The doctor is pursuing post-graduate work specialising in diseases of the heart and diseases of metabolism. He will attend the principal hospitals in London and America before returning to New Zealamd about the end of this year. The death of Messrs J. W. Backhouse and H. J. Currey, two members of the traffic manager’s department of the Wellington Harbour Board, was referred to at the board meeting last evening, when the chairman (Mr M. Cohen) said both had served the board faithfully for 34 years. It was a strange coincidence that they should pass away within a few weeks of each other. Their loyalty to the board and their length of service were a credit not only to themselves but also to their families.

Mr H. T. Cadbury, managing director of the London “Daily News,” accompanied by Mrs Cadbury, reached Auckland by the Niagara. Mr Cadbury expects to spend about ten days in New Zealand, and will then go to Australia, where he will be present at the earlier sessions of the forthcoming Press Conference before leaving for England about the beginning of September. Mr Cadbury is making his first visit to the Antipodes, and is desirous of obtaining some first-hand knowledge of this part of the British Empire. ’ Mr Max Steinberg, managing director of the American Fono Company, Ltd., accompanied by Mrs Steinberg, left by the Tahiti for the United States. On the cabled request of his principals he has gone to New York to formnlate arrangements for the manufacturing in New Zealand of gramophones, gramophone records, Player pianos, and Player piano rolls. For the manufacture of gramophone records the steel matrices will be aent to New Zealand from New York and London, and the records manufactured here. Record manufacturing will.be an industry entirely new to New Zealand, and will give employment to a big number of workmen.

Advice was received in Wellington yesterday of the death at Christchurch of Mr C H. Opie, a prominent and very well-known educationist. The late Mr Opie was chairman of the Canterbury Technical College Board of Governors, and had held that position since 1919. He was for very many years a member of the Canterbury Education Board, and of the Canterbury College Board of Governors. Mr Opie took a prominent part in public affairs, and for two periods was Mayor of New Brighton. About twenty years ago lie stood for Parliament, and unsuccessfully contested the Riccarton seat against the Hon. G. W. Russell. * He was a member of an early Council of Education. Mr Opie leaves a widow and a grown-up family of two sons and three daughters. One of his sons was Ronald Opie, a New Zealand championship runner, who represented the Dominion at the Festival of Empire Games at Crystal Palace. London, in 1911. He was killed in a motor accident in Christchurch later.

The death occurred at Wanganui on Monday of the Ven. Archdeacon Arthur Towgood, at the ripe age of 84 years. By his death there disappears a onetime notable figure in the Anglican ministry of New Zealand. He landed at Nelson in February. 1866, and took duty in the neighbourhood for some eighteen months. After a counle of years in retirement. Mr Towgood commenced work in the Rangitikei district in November, 1868, and remained there till some fifteen years ago. He was very highly esteemed by his congregation at St. SteDhen’s. Marton, and throughout the whole district, as well as in Wanganui where he freaueptly occupied the pulpit at Christ Churcfc. He was made Archdeacon of WangawfiJ by tin- late Bisbon Hadfod. The <ta» ceased was a man of marked literary ability, and had a fine library, but fire destroyed his collection of books and the writings of a life-time. For a number of years he had lived quietly in Wanganui.