PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The condition of Mr. Henry Weston, \v)io is seriously ili, was st'ill critical last night. Early next year the Chief Justice and Lady Stout will leave on a visit to America and England. The Prime Minister (Mr. W. P. Massey) has advised the Wanganui Agricultural Association that, if possible, he would visit the Show next week.

Mr. E. K. Mulgan, senior inspector of schools for the Auckland district, died yesterday (says a Press telegram from Auckland).

A London cable states that the. Eight Hon. Sir Ronald Crnnford Mnnro-Fcr-guson, G.C.M.0., lias been created a Viscount, in recognition of his services as Governor-General of Australia. Mr. A. V. Winchester, accountant and at various times acting-manager in the Bank of Australasia's Dunedin branch, has been appointed manager of the Whangarei branch of the bank. Sir Ernest Rutherford, while slaying in Copenhagen, lectured before a University audience on "The Coming of Atoms." Last year he succeeded Sir,J. J. Thomson as Professor of Experimental Physics at the famous Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University.

Archdeacon Innes Jones is to exchange parishes with the Rev. F. H. Petrie, vicar of Roseneath. The Archdeacon of Rangitikei has held the, large and important cure of Feildng for no ft less than twenty-seven years, which constitutes a long record of strenuous service in one parish. The exchange will take place at the beginning of next year.

Widely known and respected in this country for what he did to concentrate attention on the urgent necessity of putting its forests' into a permanent state of productivity, the late Sir David Hutchins was even better known in Great Britain and other parts of the Empire as a scientific forester of the highest standing (says the Dominion). ' He was one of four members of his profession in the British Empire on whom the honour of knighthood has been conferred in recognition of their services to forestry. After receiving his professional training in the School of Forests, Nancy, Mr. Hutching, as he then was, entered the Indian Forest Service. \ Ten years later he transferred to South Africa, where he served for twenty-three years, including a period during which he established a Forestry Department in British East Africa, and ultimately became chief Conservator. He was the author of many reports and other publications on forestry, amongst others, a report to the British Government on the forest of Cyprus. It was after he had retired from the active pursuit of his profession that ho visited Australia, in 1014, with a British Association party, and remained to compile a very valuable report upon the forests of the Commonwealth—"Australian Forestry." Subsequently he was prevailed upon by the New Zealand Government to come to this country in order to investigate and report upon its native forests and plantations. It is primarily due to his advice and the light he cast on forestry questions in reports which bear witness to his profound knowledge of his subject and untiring spirit of research that the Dominion is now able to boast a well-organised Forestry Department. Animated at all limes by a remarkable enthusiasm in the pursuits to which his life was devoted, Sir David Hutching at the time of his death was planning a visit to Japan in order to inspect the forests of that country. He had hoped, however, to end his days in New Zealand