PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18673, 30 September 1922, Page 11

PERSONAL

Mr W. U. (“Pussyfoot”) Johnson will arrive in Dunedin from the north this afternoon. His Honor Mr Justice Hoakiug will leave for Wellington next week. A Paris Press Association cable message announces the death of General von Iloeffncr, who organised the bombing raids on London during tho war. At the monthly meeting of .the Waikcuaiti bounty Council, held yesterday, a letter w.i« received from Miss J. B. Porteons acknowledging ami thanking 'the council fo-’ its sympathy m connection with her father's death. Tho New Zealand friends cf the Bishop of Melanesia will (our London correspondent writes) regret to hear that he is a patient at the Hospital for Tiopical Diseases undergoing a course of treatment. This was started directly after the annual meeting of the Mission on July 25.

Our parliamentary correspondent; advises that (ho Hon. W. Downio Stewart has been slightly indisposed during the past few days and is staying indoors. Mr Robert Bell, managing director of tho Lyttelton Times, who has been on a visit to Australia, returned to Christchurch on Thursday. Sir James Mills, of the Union Steam Ship Company, who is now a director of tho company in London, will pay a visit to New Zealand towards tho end of this year (says the Lyttelton Times). Dr Truhy King, Director of tho Child Welfare Division of the Department ot Health, who has been attending the annual conference in Sydney of the Australasian Public Health Association, returned by.tho j Ulimaroa _He will remain in Auckland for a fortnight to conduct a “health cam- { paign.” _ ! At the monthly meeting of (he Wai--1 kouaiii County Council, 20 applications were | received for the position of county clerk. | Mr F. W. Inder was selected, Mr B. W. j Fell, the acting clerk, being a close second, i On Tuesday night, at Riverton, the Town i Hall was filled with well-wishers to tender [ the Rev. H. Parata a hearty send-off and j presentation. The Mayor. Dr Trotter, pre- | sided, and eulogistic speeches were also i made by the Rev. Messrs Gray and Bowen, Captain Armstrong, Cr Gee, imd Mr J. 0. Thomson During his eight years’ residence in Riverton all who came in contact with Mr Parata will regret the departure of one who has played so valuable a part in the social life of the community. The railway station was crowded on Wednesday morning, and Mr Parata received a hearty farewell on his departure for Gore. Mr Ernest Alfred LeCren, second son of the late Mr Frederick LeCren, “Elmsdale,” Timaru. passed away in Dunedin yesterday morning after a painful illness. In hip early flays Mr LeCren was a well-known Rugby footballer, playing in representative games for different provinces. As a youth he joined the staff of the National .Bank of Now. Zealand, Timaru,; and left, it a few years ago to commence business a? manager of (he Standard Insurance Company, Timaru. He was 54 years of age at the tinie of his death, and is survived by a widow, two sons, and one daughter. The directors of tho Trustees, Executors, and Agency Company of New Zealand (Ltd.) have invited Mr David Allan to fill the seat on the board of that company vacated by Mr Charles Hdldsworth, whose resignation was occasioned by the removal of the head office staff of the Union Steam Ship Company to Wellington, and his consequent absence from Dunedin. Mr Allan is well known throughout the dominion, having been a director of Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co. (Ltd.) for the last nine years. His business experience and wide knowledge of land values in Otago and Southland will be of great value to the Trustees, Executors, and Agency Company of New Zealand. ’ 'The death occurred at Davdoni. India, on August 17, as the result of an aeroplane accident, of Flying Officer David Chalmers Duncan, son of the late Captain David Oooper Duncan, who was born at Poit Chalmers and became well known as master of several steamers on the regular service between New Zealand and England. Captain Duncan, who died in 1901, whs the son of Captain James Duncan, one of New Zealand’s early pioneers, for he settled there about 1860, and owned and sailed his own ships. Flying Officer David Duncan was a graduate in engineering at the Imperial College, South Kensington, after having been a pupil at the University Tutorial College, and he was apprenticed to Messrs Barclay, Curie, and Co., shipbuilders, of Glasgow, with the intention of becoming a naval architect. But directly he left college at tho age of 174 war was declared, and he at once joined the R.N.A.S., and was sent to France. In 1919 he'was sent direct to India for service on the North-West Frontier, and he was due for his first leave next month. /A pleasing ceremony took place at the Clinton School, when the chairman, members of tlie committee, ami parents assembled ip -ay good-bye to Miss MTntyre, who was leaving to take up another position in the St. Clair School. The chairman, in presenting Miss MTntyre with a beautifullybound copy of ' Longfellow’s Works, spoke in eulogistic terms of the excellent work clone by bar during her term of service in Clinton The parents realised that splendid work had been accomplished by her. and this gift carried with it their best wishes for her future happiness and prosperity. The head master (Mr Romans), on behalf of the staff and pupils, handed to Miss MTntyre two handsome Dnulton jars. He regretted that Miss MTntyre was leaving, but wished her the best of success and all happiness in her future work. Miss MTntyre feelingly replied. Musical honours and cheers wore accorded the departing teacher Having concluded a successful year’s course of study at the Gipsy Hill Training College, Miss Allen, elder daughter of the High Commissioner and Lady Allen, is (writes our London correspondent) about to embark on an interesting educational venture in association with Miss Boileau, a fellow-student at Gipsy Hill. From tho beginning of October these two friends are to take over tho village school at Baulking, which is in the area of the Berkshire County Council authority. They will run it together. Miss Boileau taking the oldest children, who will be principally boys, and Miss Allen making herself responsible for the smaller pupils. It will bp. remembered that- in New Zealand the latter was very much interested in kindergarten work. The pupils will be the village children and the children of farmers in the vicinity, and ono can well imagine that the venture will be a complete success. There is a liny cottage in connection with the school, and the two friends are looking forward with enthusiasm to their new work in an a.t- ---* tractive country village. Access to Oxford will not be difficult, and occasional weekends in London will not be impossible. Miss Allen has lately been helping at a summer holiday home for tiny children from a slum area in West London. The little inmates numbered 48, the age of one enterprising traveller being 18 months and the majority ranging from three years to five. Before entering upon her new duties Miss Allen was to leave with her parents and her sister for a holiday in Geneva, where Sir Janies is attending the meeting of the Assembly of the League of Nations.