PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12248, 21 September 1925, Page 6

PERSONALIA

. Mr J. Caughley, Director of Educffr , tion, has been visiting Hawke’s Bav. ! Mr F. Freeman, who has been on a' j visit to Wellington, has returned to ! Dunedin. The Hon. John Barr, M.L.C., of Christchurch. visited his home during the week-end. Messrs J. R. Raw and K. D. Duncan, of Wellington, are visiting Christ church. Lieutenant-Colonel F. Symon, of the General Staff of the Southern Military Command, has returned to Christchurch from Wellington. The Rev. J. W. McKenzie, late of Stratford, has been inducted to the pastoral charge of the Port Chalmers Presbyterian ChurchA cable message from Sydney an* nounces the death of Mr Frederick Deacon Kent, aged 75, at one time headmaster of the Lower School at Auckland Grammar School. Messrs H. T. Armstrong, J. MoCombs, L. M. Isitt, and Hon. D, Buddo, Canterbury members of the House of Representatives, are visiting their homes. Mr E. H. Marriner and Mr H. Willis, of Christchurch, arrived in Wellington yesterday morning to attend the annual conference of the Indus trial Corporation of New Zealand oi behalf of the Industrial Association. Sir William Sim will preside over t sitting of the Supreme Court at Christ* church beginning to-day, and will leave for Wellington on September 2Gth to attend a sitting of the Court of Appeal, which will begin on September 29th. Mr J. Waddell Smith, headmaster of the High street school, Dunedin, for many years, will be a visitor to Wellington on Friday next, when he will be tendered a reception by expupils and teachers resident here. The condition of Mr R. Kirton, for many years of New Plymouth, who has been for fifteen months confined to his bed at a Wellington hospital, is still causing his friends and relatives anxiety. Mr G. Kingscote, who is retiring from the Christchurch Stock Exchange, was given a farewell luncheon by other members. Mr F. Graham, chairman, presented the retiring member with an automatic recording barometer, and said they would be sorry to lose him from the exchange. Professor Manue, of the Health Department of che Tokio University f Japan, is a visitor to Dunedin at present. He is greatly interested in child welfare and maternal mortality, and is making investigations of the work done in New Zealand to improve conditions in these branches of welfare work. * Mr J. Weeks, formerly of the staff of the Canterbury College School of Art, is still in Edinburgh, where he has taken two years* full courses at the Academy Schools and the College of Art. Writing to a friend in Christchurch Mr Weeks mentioned that he sent in two pictures to the annual ex* hibition of the Scottish Academy. Both were accepted, and one was hung on the line. Mr Weeks is hopeful of being able to visit the Continent towards the end of the year and do seme work in Paris and Florence. The death has occurred at Palmerston North at his late residence, 17, Kingswood street, of Mr Robert Mitchinson Bryant, a well-known and highly respected resident of the ManaAvatu. Tlie late Mr Bryant was a son of the late Mr James Wellington Bryant, of Wellington, and was born at the Hutt 77 years ago, settling in the Maiiawatu about 40 years ago. As a young mn he carried the mail over the Rimutakas for the New Zealand Government, and for many year* was settled at Tiritea, hut latterly ho lesided in Palmerston North. A very old and highly respected resident of Woodville in the person of Mr Charles Guillum Scott passed away at the age of 68 years. Born Bornbav, India, the third son of General John Guillum Scott, the deceased gentleman came to Now Zealand 47 years ago, landing in Lyttelton as a young man. Thirty-three years ago Mr Scott took up his residence in Woodville, and resided there till his death. He was keenly interested in all that pertained to the welfare of the town, and took a prominent part in civic affairs, having been a member of the Borough Council, and on one occasion a candidate for the Mayoralty.