MAINLY ABOUT MEN

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12344, 14 January 1926, Page 4

MAINLY ABOUT MEN

Mr J. Hislop, Under-Secretary of Internal Affairs, has returned from Auckland. The Rev. Father Ryan, of St. Patrick’s College, Wellington, is at present at Timaru. • Mr F. J. Holiest on, M.P. for T’maru, arrived in Wellington yesterday morning from the South. Mr L. S. Drake, chief traffio and motor inspector, who has not been in good health recently, is visiting Hanmer Springs to undergo treatment. Mr J. H. 0. Bond, Dominion superintendent of the New Zealand Shipping Company, was a passenger by the Wahine from Lyttelton yesterday morning. A Greytown correspondent states that at a meeting of the Ahiakouka River Board, Mr S. M. Bish was appointed secretary from seven applicants. Mr F. B. Glasgow, who has just retired on superannuation from the management of the Union Bank of Australia, intends to reside in Rangiora. The death is recorded of Mr R. A. Parrant, a well-known resident of Petone for many years. He was connected with several branches of sport and a prominent trotting owner. Mr K. Sisam, New Zealand Rhodes scholar in 1910, is now assistant-secre-tary of the Oxford University Press, the second administrative position of that historic body. _Mr T. C. Garmley, of Hawera, arrived in Wellington by the “Limited” express, and attended the funeral of the Into Mr G. D. Hansford. He will remain in Wellington for a couple of days. Members of the Masterton Municipal Band held a social gathering to welcome the new oondnctor, Mr J. and to make a presentation to Mr R. J. Young, _ who has taken charge of the band sinoe the late conductor, Mr R. Wyko, left Masterton. The Rev. F. A. Parry, of Morrins-, ville, who has accepted office- as pastor of the , New FJymouth Baptist Church, will conduct- his first service there probably on the first Sunday in February. A farewell function for the Rev. A. H. Collins, who is retiring from active work, has been arranged. The death has occurred of Mr Roger; Lupton, for 28 years, 1896-1924, headmaster of the Whangarei High School. When Mr Lupton took charge of the school there were only five pupils; when he left there was a roll of over 300, with an efficient teaching staff, ahd the school had established traditions of which its pupils could 6& justly proud. Mr Lupton had been in indifferent health, but a spell of life in the open air seemed to have restored him, and his sudden death was unexpected. He' leaves a widow, two daughters and two sons. The funeral took place on Wednesday. During the course of business in connection with Loyal Heart of Oak Lodge at Carterton, it was incidentally remarked that P.ti. Bro. John Fensham, who is 75 years of age, had, during that period, been s member of Manchester Unity Oddfellows for the past 56 years.# Bro. Fensham still enjoys good health, and takes a keen interest in his lodge and the Order generally. He first joined tlje Rose' _of Sharon Lodge at the Hutt in 1870, and after leaving Hutt Valley threw in his clearance with the Carterton Lodge Sway back in the -70’s. It is interesting to note the vefy healthy constitution of this brother, for during his long membership he has not drawn over £6 for sick pay. The death has occurred of Mr W. M. (Bob) Winks, of Hawera. , He had suffered for a long time with a throat trouble, which" resulted in the loss of his voice. He was a son ctf the late Mr and Mrs John Winks, and was born in Hawera thirty-eeven -years ago. He went to the Argentine some time - ago and was there for about _ twelve months, leaving afterwards, owing to illness, on a tour of the world and travelling to'the United Kingdom. He returned to New Zealand, and was for some time buyer for the Patea Freesing Company. He leaves a widow, a - daughter of the late Mr W. Broderick, and one young daughter. His brothers are Messrs T. A., Jas., and Charles Winks, and his sisters Mrs A. • Ej Death, Mrs V. Nolan, Mrs Andrew Hunter, and Mrs M. Broderick. One brother was killed at Gallipoli. From over 400 the majority of whom were from England and Australia, Dr. A. W. Harman,, ol

Auckland, was a few days ago appointed director of the central research laboratory at the Colonial Sugar Refining Works at Sydney. Dr. Harman is at present a master at the Auckland Grammar School, and omy recently returned from hlngland. He studied under Professor F. G. Donnan, at the London University, and was awarded a B.Sc* there. In New Zealand he had a brilliant academic career. Leaving the Hamilton High School with a iunior university entrance scholarship, he studied at the Auckland University College and seoured an Exhibition scholarship _ m chemistrv in 1924. Before leaving for England be trained bis M.Se. degree. While with Professor Donnan Dr. Harman studied solutions of sodium silicate. , . Mr Gorman William Mclntosh, who has just Wi appointed general manager of the National Bank of New Zealand, is of Irish birth but Scots parentage. He was born in Dublin, but went out from Liverpool to Melbourne in the ship Try with hia parents when a small boy. The voyage took six months. After living some time at Ky niton, Victoria, where his father died, Mr Mclntosh, then aged ten, came to New Zealand with his mother, settling first at Invercargill. Later the family lived in Dunedin, and afterwards moved to the West Coast. Mr Mclntosh’s great problem, young as ho was, then lay in supporting the household. This left but little time for. school, college, or university, or social entertainments. However, the greater the obstacles the mote was he determined, by night school and 'in other ways, to improve his education, working as a lad in various occupations quite foreign to high finance. At seventeen, in March, 1875, two' years after its foundation, be joined the National Bonk. staff as accountant at the Greymouth branch. HU salary was then £l5O, then considered a fine salary, and it certainly compares more than favourably with the purchasing value of £3OO to-day. Mr Mclntosh’s subsequent promotions were: Sub-ac-countant, Dunedin, April, 1880; ao countan t, Christchurch, September, 1882, and Wellington, November, 1883; manager of Te Aro, Wellington, October, 1889; and of Blenheim, in December of the same year. He was, interim manager at Wellington frour April--1597, to January, 1898, and inspected until December, 1898- Ha was appointed manager at Invei cargill, in July, 1007; Duned*n, three years later; interim manager, _ Auckland, February, 1923: and chief inspector, stationed in Wellington, from August, 1923; nntil in that same month, iu 1925, he was appointed acting-general manager. His banking career has thus been confined to New Zealand and to tbs National Bank.