PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20706, 2 May 1929, Page 6

PERSONAL.

The death has occurred (says a Press Association telegram from Auckland) of Mr Benjamin Watson Buttle, aged 72, who was until recently manager of the Kaiapoi Woollen Company in that city. Mr Robert Thompson, who is retiring from the Colonial Sugar Company, after 42 years service, was made a prfisentati°n by his fellow-employees last week. Advice has been received 'that Mr Cooke, of the Thames School of Mines, and formerly of the Otago University School- of Mines, has been awarded a fellowship of the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy. Mr E. J. Chapman, at present station master at Woodlands, hag received notice of bis transfer to the position of assistant andit inspector, with headquarters at Wellington. Mr Chapman’s successor has not yet been announced. The death is announced (says a Press Association message from Christchurch) °f Dr Courtney L. Nedwill, aged 70, a medical practitioner. He was stationed at Trentham during the war. 6 A Gisborne telegram states that the S!““* occurred last, night of Henry Jtwart Hill, a prominent business man, and formerly registrar of births, marriages, and deaths, aged 54 years. The deceased had been in hospital only a few hays, and was suffering from pleurisy was a candidate for the Borough Council and Power Board at the noil yesterday. Mr W. W. Massey, chairman of the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association, is to be. recommended by the association to the Governor-General for I? provincial representative on the Board of Agriculture. Mr Massey has already held the position for a term of three years. The Auckland Association is also making a further recommendation that Mr Ebenezer Allen, of Bucklands, should be appointed to fill a vacancy on the board. A prominent personality in the motor world at present m Dunedin is Mr 0. A. Speers, ; overseas representative for the Spark Plug Company.' Born in Canada, Mr Speers has in the past WlJ ear w e S? a v ery large part of the l e £ r he has Waited no fewer than 14 different countries, studying motoring matters, and he tells rlfn/n 8t rt ies rt of overseas peculiarities. In Japan, the Government enforces owners “ate In China, 500,000 ft** 1 -placed oh road work. Un every hand and in every country one sees ‘increasing evidence of the influence of motor transport on the daily lives of people, and Mr Speers is particularly impressed: with the developments 3 bf wJL* y n , p K ce - in the mot °v industry hsd a i ace 1928 > w hen he last visited this, country. Mr Speers will remain in New (Zealand for some little time, visiting the cities and main provincial towns, He is not a stranger to many Dunedin - motorists, who doubtless SturM m wSri, the 6er - ies of iUnstrated envbip hhe S a je; in connection with engine efficiency and ignition problems.