MAINLY ABOUT MEN

New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12652, 12 January 1927, Page 6

MAINLY ABOUT MEN

Mr H. D Thomson has been visiting Christchurch.

Among visitors to Christchurch are Messrs E. A. Kermodo and E. J. Mao Donald, of Wellington.

Mr R. Campbell Begg. who has been on a brief trip to Sydney, returned yesterday by the Ulimaroa. Mr S- J. Collett, chief clerk, Tourist Office, Wellington, who has been visiting Christchurch, has returned to th® north.

Mr Maurice Hollander expects to return to New Zealand via Panama at the end of the present month. He has been visiting France and Brussels. Colonel J. Foster, Mr F. Foster, Mr W. Borce, Dr A. Andrews, and Mr H. Tasjle were the passengers who arrived by the Ulimaroa from Sydney.

Dr F. Gibson, of Christchurch, together with Mrs and Miss Gibson, returned to the Dominion yesterday by the Ulimaroa after a trip to England.

Mr G. H. Cunningham, Government Mycologist, who is studying diseases caused by fungi in New Zealand, spent several days in North Canterbury, and has just returned to Wellington.

A Press Association telegram from New Plymouth reports the death of Mr Harold Brookman, at one time a well-known commercial traveller, later manager of Hatrick and Co.’s Waitara branch, and more recently landlord of the White Hart Hotel, New Plymouth.

Among the passengers by the Ulimaroa, which arrived from Sydney yesterday, was Professor W. Geisler, of Halle University, Germany. Professor Geisler is* a professor of geography, and will be staying in New Zealand for about two months, doing geogiuvphicnl and geological research work.

Mr H. P. Robinson, who has been accountant in the office of the North Auckland land district since it was established some seven years ago, has been notified of his appointment as chief clerk of the Lands and Survey Department at Christchurch. Mr G. J. Beeson, accountant at the Wellington office, will succeed him.

Office-bearers of the New Zealand Master Bakers and Pastrycooks’ Association have been chosen as under.— President, Mr G. K. Mathieson (Auckland) ; vice-presidents, Messrs C. E. Bell (Wellington), G. A. Laurenson (Dunedin), Messrs McKenzie. H. P« Burton, C. Cowan, R. H. Montgomery, J. McGregor, C. Buchanan, and A. Kent.

At the last meeting of the council of the Association of British Manufacturers and Agents the following new members were elected: —The London Holeproof Hosiery Co., Ltd., London (representatives, Messrs A. P. Simester, Ltd., Wellington); the International Icilma Trading Co., Ltd., London (representatives, Messrs Salmond and Spraggon, Ltd., Wellington), New Zealand representatives, Mr Arthur W. Probert, Premier Buildings, Auckland.

Mr George Hackwood Sargeant, ono of the foremost apiary experts in New Zealand, died at Christchurch on Friday. He was born at Jamaica, 49 years ago, and was later educated at Cheltenham College, England. He was the son of a planter, and after completing his education in England, went to the Argentine where he joined an uncle at farming. On the outbreak of the South African War he joined the First King’s Hussars, and served throughout the campaign with that corps. He later returned to England, where lie was actively engaged in bee farming. He went then to Australia, where no tried farming, but eventually came to New Zealand. During the late war Mr Sargeant was a quarter-master-sergeant at Trentham Slilitary Camp. When his military duties were completed, Mr Sargeant entered the Department of Agriculture as Apiary Instructor, and retained the positior until his death.