PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20707, 3 May 1929, Page 10

PERSONAL.

Ministerial. Our special correspondent in Auckland states that the Postmaster-geneial (Mr J. B. Donald) left for Wellington by the limited express last night, and that the Minister of Labour (Mr W. A. Yeitch), who has been visiting South Auckland, joined the south-bound limited express at Pokeno.

Mr Roderick Mackenzie travelled by yesterday’s express -from Dunedin to Christchurch.

Mr James Taylor, late locomotive inspector of railways: for the South Island, left for the-North Island yesterday. Mr R.’ D. Welsh, Dunedin manager for the Texas Oil Company, travelled by yesterday’s express to Christchurch. Mr T. M. Ball, district engineer for the Public Works Department, arrived in Dunedin yesterday morning from Invercargill.- ■ . Mr A. E. Hefford, chief inspector of fisheries, who had been visiting Dunedin, travelled by yesterday’s express to Christchurch..

Mr J. Robertson, senior inspector of the Southland education district, who has been promoted to a similar position in the Hawke’s. Bay education district, was a through passenger by yesterday’s express for the' north. \ Mr A. J. Baker, inspecting engineer for the Public Works- Department, war a through passenger by yesterday’s express from Invercargill. He is proceeding to Wellington. , At the last meeting of the Otago A. and P. Society Mr James Begg was nominated for the position of vice-president for the ensuing year. It was decided to recommend that Mr William Gardiner, of Peebles, be elected an honorary life member of the society. Both these items will come before the General Committee at ita annual meeting for confirmation. Miss Marion Webster (a pupil of Miss Bessie Thomson) has been informed by the Trinity College of London that she has tied for the senior scholarship in elocution, which is open to scholars throughou; the Empire.

At, the annual meeting of tbs Otago United Temperance Reform Council, Mr H. S. Adams was elected president. Mr R. W. Hall, the retiring president, waa .elected as a vice-president, and it was decided to express to Mr Hall the council's high appreciation of his consistent, energetic, and efficient services to the temperance cause during his term of office. The funeral took place at Gore on Tuesday of an old and esteemed resident of the district in the person of the late Mr August Gutschlag, aged 74 years, who died at his residence on Sundqy last. The late Mr Gutschlag, accompanied by his wife, arrived at Fort Chalmers some 45 years agoj and took up farming near Whiterig. This he worked until he retired, and settled in Gore several years ago. He was of a retiring disposition,: and took no. active part in public affairs. The Rev. 6. D. Cox, who passed away at Ashburton after a short illnet , was educated at Spurgeon College, London. He left England _ 43 years ago for Australia, and occupied an important charge at Aberdeen street, Geelong, After three years there he came to New ■ Zealand, where he remained for the rest of his life. He occupied charges at Mount Eden, -Napier, Oamaru, Lincoln, and Riccarton. He retired some years ago, and had been living quietly ever since. The rev. gentleman was SO years of age. At his son’s residence, Rookwood avenue. North Beach, another old colonist passed away on April 30,-in-the person of Mr Michael Cook, ' at. the' age of 94 years.- The deceased .was well known in Christchurch as the senior partner of the glass works which ceased operations exactly 25 years ago on April 30, 1904. Mr Cook was,born at Gateshead-on-Tyne, England, in'lß3s. .He was apprenticed to the glaesmaking trade, working at it both in England and Scotland. He arr rived in Dunedin in 1862, and went to the goldfields at the Dunstan, and other parts of Otago. _ Later he returned to his trade, joining, the firm of Messrs Wilthew, Watts, and Co. in Auckland in 1869. In 1881 he established works on his own account in Auckland, and continued there until he established the works in Manchester street in 1899. He was a member of the Ancient Order of Foresters, and was Canterbury’s senior member. Ho took no prominent part in public affairs. In politics he was a staunch Liberal. His wife • predeceased him nearly 20 years ago. ■ ! He leaves a. family of three sons and two daughters. It is understood (says our special correspondent ■in ' Auckland) that -Canon Percival James, vicar of St. Mary’s ProCathedral, has been offered a similar position at St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral, Wellington. ' This news will be received with no little interest in Auckland ecclesiastical circles, because only last week Canon and Mrs James, who had intended to leave almost immediately on a trip to England, were given a farewell social by the parishioners of the cathedral and presented with a travelling rug and suitcase. In making the presentation, the wardens. Dr Kidder and Mr L. S. Rickerby, paid tributes to the work of Canon and Mrs James, In his reply, Canon James said that his nine years in the parish had been uniformly happy because of the fine -pint he had found at •St.-Mary's, and the harmonious relations that had existed in all departments of the pariah life. Canon James was born in Durham. England, in 1882. and is a son of the Rev. D. W. James, vicar of Bramish, Durham. He was educated at Queen s College, Oxford. In 1907 he was appointed assistant master and chaplain to Durham School. Canon James joined the British Army in 1917, and served as a chanlain in Egypt and Mesopotamia. In 1920 he came to St. Mary’s, and was made a canon the following year. In 1923 he married a daughter of Sir George Fenwick.