MAINLY ABOUT MEN

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12470, 11 June 1926, Page 6

MAINLY ABOUT MEN

Tho appointment of Mr C. H. Taylor as Crown Prosecutor, Wellington, was gazetted last night. His Honour the Chief Justice will leave tor Gisborne to-day to take the sittings of the Supreme Court there. Mr A. T. Mackinnon, secretary to the Post and Telegraph Department, has returned from a visit to the Taranaki district. Mr L. O. H. Tripp has been reelected president of the Wellington Aclimatisation Society. Mr C. E. Wiffen was elected deputy-chairman. Mr W, lock, Mayor of Nelson, visited Wellington yesterday to attend the quarterly meeting of the executive committee of the Municipal Association. Mr W. Michael, leader-writer for the “Dominion,” has been appointed to the position of editor of tiie ‘‘Wjiirarapa Age,” rendered vacant by the resignation of Dr. G- H. •Scholefield. The death is announced by a Press Association telegram from New Plymouth of Captain Thomas Wilson, an old colonist who was closely identified with the history of Taranaki. Captain Wilson was 89 years of age. Mr A. E. Ford, general manager of the Auckland Municipal Tramways, left New Zealand on Tuesday on a visit to America and the United Kingdom to study problems and means of modern passenger transportation. Mr Ford will visit all the principal cities of the United States and the Old Country, and will also pay a brief visit to the Continent. Mr J. H. Clark, assistant assessor of the Land and Income Tax Department, Wellington, has been appointed assessor, and Mr L. E. Lovell takes up the position of assistant assessor. Mr A. V. Adams, surveyor in the Lands and Survey Department, Wellington, has been promoted to the position of surveyor at New Plymouth. Mr E. W. Bagrie, of Tait, Bagrie and Co., of Christchurch, a keen Soccer enthusiast, passed through Wellington yesterday, on the way to Auckland, where he joins the Niagara for Sydney, and will then catch the Naldera for Home. It is hoped he will be able to further the negotiations opened by the New Zealand Council for tlie visit of a Scottish team to New Zealand in 1927. The Rev. H. R. Dewsbury, who died at Auckland on Tuesday, was a retired Methodist minister widely known throughout the Dominion. Born at Stirling, Scotland, in 1549, and educated there at Allan School, Mr Dewsbury came to New Zealand in 1863, and was articled to Messrs Bury and Mountfort, the well-known ecclesiastical architects. Leaving this profession six years later, he entered the ministry of the Wesleyan Church, undergoing training with the Rev. A. R. Fitchett (now Dean of Dunedin) and the Rev. Alexander Reid. He soon became a notable preacher and his popularity in the pulpit led to his being pointed to leading churches. He was electsd to the presidency of the New Zealand Wesleyan Conference in 1891, and was on one occasion secretary of the General Conference of Australasia. Advancing age led to his retirement some years ago. He is survived by Mrs Dewsbury, daughter of the late Captain Parnall, of Onehunga.

Captain F. H. Billington, of Napier, has been appointed principal, and Mr J. H. Mitchell, of Balclutba, farm manager of Flock House Station. Captain Billington was trained at the Cheshire Agricultural College, Leeds University, and West of Scotland DairyInstitute, and obtained the numerous qualifications in agriculture and science. He subsequently served for eight years as instructor of.the Irish Department of Agriculture, visited Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Hdlland, and Belgium to study farming methods in these countries. In 1908 he obtained leave from the Irish Department of Agriculture to secure experience in the Argentine on a sheep and cattle ranch, and as manager of a 1600-acre dairy farm. At the outbreak of war he went to France witli the Irish Horse, and was one of the “Old Contemptibles” in the historic retreat from Moris. He subsequently became company commander in the Royal Irish Fusiliers, and served continuously throughout the war in France, Salonika. and Palestine. At the conclusion of the war he was given entire supervision of the experimental work carried out on practical lines by the Olympia Agricultural Company,' farming some 20,000 acres for Lord Manton in various parts of England. On the death of Lord Manton in 1922 Captain Billington came to New Zealand, and has since farmed on his own account in Hawke’s Bay. Mr J. H. Mitchell was trained on the New Zealand and Australian Land Co.’s Clydevale Estate, of which bis father was manager for many years. In 1912 he went to Argentine, as overseer to one of the largest sheep farming companies in the world. At the outbreak of war he joined up as a gunner in the Field Artillery, getting his discharge in 1918 as a lieutenant. Since returning to New Zealand he has farmed successfullv on his own account the homestead block of the old Clydevale Estate.