MAINLY ABOUT MEN

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12455, 25 May 1926, Page 6

MAINLY ABOUT MEN

MINISTERIAL The Hon. J. A. Young, Minister for Health, has returned to Wellington after spending the week-end at his hotne in Hamilton (Waikato). The new Minister for Education, the Hon. R. A. Wright, was sworn in as a member of the Executive Conncil yesterday afternoon, and he will commence duty to-day. His offices will be in the old portion of Parliament House close to where the Hon. R. F. Bollard is located. Mr W. I. Deavoll, formerly with Sir James Parr, will be his private secretary. Mr J. McC. Dickson, M.P. for Chalmers, is in Wellington, on public business. Archbishop Redwood is a passenger by the Makura, which is due from Sydney to-day. His Honour Mr Justice Frazer and the other members of the Arbitration Court left for the south last evening. Mr Geoige A. Green, secretary of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture, is in Wellington just now on matters connected with the Institute. The Rev. E. Y. P. Lee left by the express yesterday morning (Monday) to take part in the missionary exhibition which is being held in Wanganui this week. Professor J. Macmillan Brown, Chancellor of the University, will arrive by the ferry steamer from Christchurch this morning to preside at the second meeting of the year of the University Senate. A tribute of respect to the memory of the late Mr J. A. Tripe, will be paid by the bench and bar at the Supreme Court on Wednesday next, at 10.30 a.m., when it is anticipated e large number of practitioners will be present. The Very Rev. John Walker, Mod-erator-General of the Presbyterian Church in Australia, is visiting Christchurch. He has been for the past nineteen years minister of St. Andrew's Church, Ballarat. Mr Walker has come to New Zealand at the invitation of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand to be the chief speaker at the celebration of the jubilee of the Theological College, to be held this week in Dunedin. Mr Walker is a grand-nephew of Professor John Stewart Blackie, and a great-grandson of James Watt, the inventor of the steam engine. Dr Charles Chilton has heen awarded the Hutton Memorial Medal established in memory of the late Captain F W. Hutton, at one time Professor of Bjology at Canterbury College and Curator of the. Museum. The award, which is made at intervals of three years by the New Zealand Institute on the recommendation of a special committee, is for special research work. Tho resolution of the institute states that the award is made to Dr Chilton, M.A., D.Sc., for his continuous researches on the amphibious Crustacea of New Zealand, and makes special reference to his recent publication on tli« geographical relation of the Dominion to other southern islands. Mr Bernard Wolff, an old and highlyrespected resident of Te Kuiti, and father of Mr A. Wolff, of Island Bay. and Mr B. Wolff, of Whangarei, died at To Kuiti on Saturday night, in his eighty-sixth year. The late Mr Wolff came to Australia when seventeen years of age, attracted by the Victorian gold rush; and it was the fascination of the hunt for gold which brought him to Thames. There he became manager of the Moanataiari mine and battery, the Herald battery, and other mines and batteries in the district; and he was recognised as one of the pioneers of the Thames goldfields. Later, he joined the Lands and Survey Department, and carried out important work in the Taihape neighbourhood in connection with, among other things, the establishment of Mr Seddon’s co-operative works system. He was widely known and everywhere respected as a man of the highest honour; and he was a prominent Mason. Besides the two sons named, there are three daughters, who live in Kelburn, Masterton, and Thursday Island respectively. The Wellington CatMnnan society, in its annual report, referring to the Pipe Band, records with regret that Mr X. A. Macdonald has resigned the position of Pipe-Major after seven years of faithful service, and places on record his most valuable services to the band and the society. The band had been fortunate in securing the services of Mr N. Comrie, ex-Captain of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders as drum major, and Mr Walter Fraser as pipe-major. Under these two efficient officers great programs is being made.