PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12211, 8 August 1925, Page 4

PERSONALIA

Major-Ueneral 0. W. Melvill, general officer commanding the New Zealand Military Forces, iB at Christchurch. Mr David Cody, manager of the Charles Haines Advertising Agency, Ltd., has left on a visit to Sydney and Melbourne. Mr Is. J. Taylor, brother of Lieutenant F. Dunn Taylor, Beoond in command of Commander Worslev’s expedition to the North Pole, is leaving next week for a visit to Europe. Mr F. J. Jones has been appointed to the staff of the New Zealand Defence Forces with the honorary rank of colonel, and has been appointed Director of Railways. Amongst the visitors to Auckland are Messrs V. Carmine, J. H. Mills, J. Walmsley, R. J. H. Cox, J. Simpson, D. L. Popplewell, and H. Vickery, of Wellington. Sir Thomas Mackenzie, who left by the Niagara, will spend a week in Suva with his son-in-law, Mr Howard Ellis. Sir Thomas will return hy the Aorangi on Aligns! 16th. Lord Stradbroke, Governor of Victoria, whose term of office has ended, has decided not to return to Melbourne, but to pay a visit to New Zealand. He will go as a passenger on the American flagship.—Press Association. Mr T. Falconer, formerly chairman of the Wellington section of the Post and Telegraph Officers’ Association, and who has been transferred. to Hastings, was at the smoke concert of the association presented with a token of esteem from the members of the local branch of the department. The death occurred at the residence of Canon Keretene, at Ngararatunua, near Kamo, of Hori Purin, aged 75, a notability among tbe Maoris in the far north He was closely related to Hone Heke. A son and daughter survive, the son being married to a daughter of Canon Keretene, and the daughter to the Rev. Mr Harawira. Before his departure from Hamilton to take up the position of postmaster at Otorohanga, Sir J. C. Quinlan was entertained by the Hamilton Roman Catholic parishioners, and was presented with a travelling rug. Mr Quinlan was thanked for his work as secretary of the Hamilton Catholic schools, and was complimented on his promotion.* The arrival of Mr G. Pauli, producer, and Mr J. McDonald, business manager, of Sphere Films, Ltd., London, in New Zealand, is of special interest to the people of the Dominion. They arrived hy tbe Arawa at Auckland a few days back, and are now in Wellington. The purpose of their visit is to make two film stories of New Zealand, one a legendary story, devoted entirely to Maori life and exceedingly picturesque in character, dealing mostly with the period before the arrival of the white people in the Dominion; the other, a modern story founded on present day conditions in New Zealand, and covering the primary and secondary industries. Maoris only will be engaged in the production of the first picture, and it is hoped that the caste for the other film will also be comprised of New Zealand people. Both gentlemen will first make a complete tour of the Dominion to settle tbe locations for the stories, and will then go straight to woft. A cable message from Delhi announces the death of Sir Surendranath Banerjea, formerly a prominent Indian politician and writer.. He was aged 77 years. The late Sir S. Banerjea was editor of “The Bengalee.” He wa* educated in England, and entered tbe Imperial Civil Service in 1871, leaving three years later to become Professor of English Literature at tbe Metro--politan Institution at Calcutta. In 1876 he founded the Indian Association, and was twice president of the Indian National Congress. For many years ke occupied a seat in the Bengal Legislative Council, as well as being a member, from 1913 to 1920, of the Imperial Legislative Council. He went to England in 1919, and gave evidence before the joint Parliamentary Committee of both Houses on Indian reforms. He then became a member of the Bengal Legislative Council, under the _ reform scheme, and in 1921 was Minister of Local Self-Government and Public Health.