PERSONAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 1 July 1924, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr J. Kennedy (chairman of the, South Canterbury' Power Board) went to Waimate yesterday. Mr W. F. Jarvie is at present Act- - mg-Chief Postmaster at Timaru during- , ths absence of Mr H. P. Donald. ' r >. Dr. Phillipps, Health Officer, Christchurch, who spent the week-end in .Timaru, returned to Christchurch yester- ' day. . ....... . , Mr F. J. Rolleston, M.P., for , .Ti-; , maru, left. Wellington on Saturday., night, and motored from ChristhurcU to Timaru on Sunday. ; t Mr Stanley Grant, representative for the Pharus, - will arrive in Timaru today, to complete arrangements for the appearance ,of■ the Healer. ' The Labour Party has decided to." offer the Government a pair for Mt T. D. Burnett (Teinuka), during Us ” absence from Parliament through ill-' ness.-

Mr" W. M. Yates, who has been head-master-of the Rangitata school for 15 years, is leaving shortly to take charge , of the. Ladbrooks school, near Christchurch. Prior to going to Rangitata Mr Yates .(who has been teaching-:n South (3ahterbury' 1 Tor 31 years), -was _ master at the Kingsdown school. Outside school work lie was well-known in musical circles, arid acted as choimaster of the Otaio-Bluecliffs parish for some years. An Auckland message reeords the death of Mr Harry Charles tVilUgm Wrigg (N.Z. Cross) at the agei of 82. Deceased served with the colonial forces in the Maori War m the Wai- _■ kato, and East Coast campaign. He was decorated in 1898 with th© New, Zealand Cross for services rendered m 1867, when he voluntarily carried despatches for 90 miles through enemy country. , Mr Wings was Chief; Draughtsman in the Public Works Department from 1868 to 1888. Tlie new Rhodes,.Scholar, Dr. R. S. Aitken, of the University of Otago, arrived in Wellington last night to jom • th- s.s. Pakeha, which sails at day- w break to-day for the Old behalf of the Government, the liime ' Minister sent Dr. Aitken the Mowing message -—“Accept from myself and hearty good wishes on the eve °fyo ur Raving To take up your Rhodes Scholarship I sure y°u )Y 111 worthily uphold the splendidreputaion which our previous scholar have won for New Zealand. Private advice has been receiycdnn New Plymouth of the death at Poland. Oregon, of Mr John Hall, who was for many years honorary consu ai agent for New Zealand m that city. The' 1 late Mr Hall, who was at nue time sub-editor of the “Timaru Heraid,” came to New Zealand from land with his parents in 1801. In brig Mehemet Shah, by which Ui family were travelling, caught hre. ' and the passengers were rescued and conveyed to their destination by tne French barque Marie Virginia. Mt Hall left Timaru for California m 188/, his famiiv folio-wing a feiv years latei. In Portland he directed the construction of several of the city reservoirs,' in 1892 introducing reinforced concrete, then comparatively new', to this typo of work. Mr Hall made several efforts to develop commercial relations between New Zealand and California. Mrs Hall died at Portland some ye*** ago-