PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18141, 12 January 1921, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr C. E. Statham, M.P., returned from the north by the first express yesterday. Inspector Cruiokshank, formerly of Timaru, levered his connection with the police force on December 31, after 42 years’ service. Ho will leave New Zealand in a few days for the Old Country. Mr ■W. G. Marshall, who was town clerk at Brisbane for nearly 50 years, died recently after a short illness. The Rev. Rowland Finch, an English clergyman, who is going to Te Auto College, accompanied Bishop Sedgwick to New Zealand in the Paparoa. Mr Finch has high scholarly attainments, and has published at least one notable work.

Dr R. J. Tillyard, chief of the biological department of the Cawthron Institute, has been elected a member of the Entomological Society of France, an honour which is held by very few foreigners. Dr Philip Jory, of Birkenhead, Auckland, has accepted the position of house surgeon in East London Children’s Hospital at Shadwell, one of the leading institutions of its kind. Dr Jory is better known as Lieu-tenant-colonel Jory, D. 5.0., formerly of King George Hospital, Rotorua. He is only 26 years of age. Mr D. A. Aiken, general manager of the Union Steam Ship Company, left tor Wellington by the first express yesterday to attend the conference between represents tives of the seamen and shipowners. Mr A. O. Levien, of Wellington, and formerly of Masterton, has been awarded the 21 years’ Colonial Auxiliary Forces’ long and efficient service medal, and also the medals for 16 years’ and 12 years’ continuous service. Mr Levien’s period of service was with the 17th (Ruahine) Regiment, and during that time he missed only 10 parades. Mr C. Borgen, M.8.E., and Mrs Bergen. of Stavenger, Norway, arrived in Christchurch on Monday from Australia on their way to the Southern Lakes. They are making a tour of the world, and on their return from the south they will travel in the North Island prior to joining a steamer at Auckland for Vancouver and America. Prior to leaving Norway Mr Borgen received the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his war work. Tne death took place at Orepuki on Thurs day last of Mr Thomas Shirley, proprietor of the Railway Hotel (says the Advocate). Deceased was born in 1860, at North-East Valley, Dunedin. His father was Mr Matthew Shirley, one of the old pioneers of Southland, having come south from Gabriel’s Gully early in 1862. Deceased had a varied career—farming, hotelkeeping, etc.—and was some 11 -"ears in Bennett’s cordial factory. His father came out in the second ship under the New Zealand Com. pany, and his mother in the third, the union being one of the first marriages solemnised at the Hutt (nine miles out of Wellington), in 1846. The death is reported at _ Auckland of Mr Richard Porter. Born in Wellington in 1848. his parents removed to Auckland when he was six months old, and ho resided there ever since, with the exception of a short period at the Thames. In his earlier manhood he took an active part in tho Labour movement, being closely connected with the eight-hours’ agitation in the late seventies and eighties, acting on committees of the organisation, and also the demonstrations and sports. He wa6 secretary to the Amalgamated Society of Engineers for many years, also of the Marine Society of Engineers, and on relinquishing tho former position he was presented with a gold watch as a token of esteem for valuable work. He represented his societies on the committee ■ that organised and carried out the great functions held at the jubilee of Queen Victoria.