PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12250, 23 September 1925, Page 6

PERSONALIA

Mr C. P, Skerrett, K.C., and Mr M, Myers, K.C., are at Auckland.

Mr H. D. Thompson, Under-Secre-tary for Immigration, has gone north on departmental business. Mr H. H. Sterling, a member of the Railway Board, has returned from a hurried visit to Auckland.

Messrs J. B. Kemp, Tyler, S. Sando, and L. H. Labone, of Wellington, are at Dunedin.

Drs. Main and McLean arrived in Wellington yesterday by the ferry steamer from Lyttelton. The Hon. D. Buddo, M.P., accompanied by Mrs and Miss Buddo, have arrived in Wellington from the south. Professor Lawson, of Dunedin, who is going to England for a trip, leaves tho Dominion next week. Mr Alex. Milne has taken up his duties in Dunedin as successor to Mr A. C. Ross as dairy instructor and grader.

Mr W. B. Parsons, manager in the Dominion for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Ltd. has returned north from a visit to Dunedin. Tire Hons. J. Craigie and D. T. Fleming, M.L.O.’s,.- returned tp Wellington yesterday by the -Maori from Lyttelton. The Yen. Archdeacon Russell, of Oaniaru, who has been staying in New Plymouth for the past six weeks, leaves this week on his return south. Messrs H. W. Uru, L. M. Isitt, G. Witty, J. McCombs, and H. T. Armstrong, M.P.’s, have returned to Wellington from the south.

A Press Association message from Gisborne reports the death of a veteran New Zealand journalist, Mr Hamilton Thomas Jones, sub-editor of the “Poverty Bay Herald.”

Mr E. H. Gill, recently attached to the staff of Messrs Fell and Harley, barristers and solicitors, Nelson, has been appointed to the legal staff of the Publio Trust Office, Wellington. Mr J. W. Collins, Secretary of the Department of Industries and Commerce, has been in Dunedin on Exhibition business, and left for Wellington yesterday morning.

Sir James Parr, Minister for Education and Health and Postmaster-Gen-eral, journeyed at the week-end to Te Aroha to visit his father, who is in failing health.

Mr H. C. Jones, of Auckland, a former president of the Motor Traders’ Association’s Conference, was made a life member of the association, in recognition of sterling work in the interests of members.

Advice has been received by the Government that Lord Forster, the retiring Governor-General of Australia, who proposed to visit New Zealand at the close of his term of office, has been obliged to canoel his projected tour.

Amongst the visitors to . Auckland are Messrs A. T. Jackman, L. Wilkinson, R W. Holmes, W. Walton, A. C. Mitchell, and Mr T. C. Hislop, of Wellington, and Mr W? H. McLean., of Feeding, and Mr G. T. Champion, of New Plymouth. Messrs W. Blomfield (“Bio,” of the “Observer”), W. Eddowes, and R. Stewart, who have been m Wellington on business, left for the north by last night’s express. While in Wellington they interviewed the Prime Minister and Minister for Mines on business connected with mining properties in which they are interested. Mr A. E. Collins, of New Plymouth, who died suddenly, ,£i>ent most of his life in Southland, retiring from the railway service about five years ago to settle in New Plymouth. He was an engine-driver at Nightcaps for many years, and was a member of the Masonic Lodge of that town at the time of his death. Our Masterton correspondent writes: The death has occurred at Masterton of Mr John Dixon, one of Wellington’s earliest settlers. Deceased was horn in Nottinghamshire. England, and was in his 87th year. He came out to New Zealand in the ship London, arriving in 1842. After some years’ residence there, he removed to Martinhorough. During the past three years he had lived in Masterton.

The death occurred of Mr Frank Augustus Speer, a soldier who had been an inmate of the Auckland Hospital Annexe. Mr Speer, who was 40 years of age, was for some years before the war an official on the staff of the Hamilton Borough Council. He joined the 16th Waikato-Regiment in 1914, and served as a lance-corporal in Gallipoli and Franoe until 1918, when as the result of being badly gassed he was invalided home., Mr Speer leaves a wife and one child resident in England. A well-known figure in the world of the working journalist in Dunedin a few years ago was Mr Charles Cox, a member of the “Otago Daily Times” staff, and subsequently a “casual” and a free lance who penned many a pungent article. When well past tho eightieth milestone of life Air Cox, with his wife, left for the Old Country, to settle down in Dorset. Word recently received tells of the sustained vigour of the veteran journalist, who, on tho occasion of his 89th birthdayin March last, succeeded in once more accomplishing his self-imposed annual task of walking a measured mile within fifteen minutes. Mr Cox adds that, apart from a slow but sure dimming of his eyesight and other little indications that he is “not so young as he used to he,” he enjoys a wonderful measure of health and strength.