PERSONALS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18418, 21 March 1928, Page 8

PERSONALS

MINISTERIAL. The Minister of Public Works (the PI on K. S. Williams) has left for the north, and will be absent from Wellington for some time. The Plon John Barr, M.L.C., was an arrival by this morning’s ferry steamer from the north. Dr Russell and Messrs Acton-Adams and H. Moss arrived from the north to-day. After some discussion on research affairs in committee, it was decided by the Board of Governors of Lincoln College, which met yesterday, to appoint Mr John Studholme convener of the Educational Research Committee. Mr A. W. Beaven, president of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association, left for Wellington last night to attend there a meeting of the executive of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation to be held to-day. Mr R. E. Fisher, stationmaster at Papanui, has been notified of his transfer to Amberley, and he leaves for Amberley or Thursday week. At yesterday’s meeting of the Farm Committee of Lincoln College, prior to the meeting of the Board of Governors, the lion D. Buddo, M.P., was elected chairman of the committee. A resolution of sympathy -with the relatives of the late PI on Mark Cohen, M.L.C., was passed at last night's meeting of the School Committees’ Association. Tt is expected that Mr G. P. Newtown. Assistant Under-Secretary of Internal Affairs, will succeed Mr Hislop as Under-Secretary when the latter retires, states the “ Star's ” Wellington correspondent. Mr P. B. B. Nicholls, who has been appointed by the Colonial Office as liaison officer attached to the Prime Minister's Department, will arrive from England by the Maunganui next week.

Mr G. S. Lynds, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the New Zealand Railways, who has been appointed chairman of the General Officers’ Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Railways, left for Melbourne yesterday to attend it. The death has occurred at Matamata of Mr Crosdell Brindle, a veteran of the Maori wars, at the age of eighty-one years. Mr Brindle, who had been farming at Matamata for twenty-six years, joined the transport service of the 3rd Waikato Regiment at the age of seventeen, and served in Taranaki, Wanganui and the Waikato. He was awarded the Maori War Medal and recently the King’s Empire Veterans’ Medal. Mr B. B. Wilson, who has been acting coach to the North Taranaki Cricket Association, and who leaves for England by the Makura, has been reengaged. Mr Wilson will return to New Zealand at the beginning of next season. Cabled advice has been received that Mr H. V. Anson, late of Wellington, has been elected by the council of the Royal College of Music, London, as an honorary associate (A.R.C.M.). He is now one of the college teachers in composition, harmony, counterpoint, ear training and sight singing, lie was educated at Wanganui Collegiate School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was at one time director of Music at Alleyne’s School, Dulwich, England. Mr Victor Bouncy, the distinguished English obstetrical surgeon, was a guest of honour at the luncheon of the Wellington Rotary Club yesterday. Other medical men present were : —Dr Herbert, Dr Short, Dr Gibbs, Mr Campbell Begg, Dr Elliott and Dr Gordon (Stratford). In welcoming Mr Bonney, Mr D. S. Smith (president) said that the club felt very honoured indeed to have him present, and he understood that the medical men of New Zealand felt greatly indebted to Mr

Bonney for his visit to New Zealand; and in so far as he had helped the Plunket Society, the Rotary Club was also much interested in his work in this country.

Constable William Mahony, fifty-two, died recently at Kihikihi, where he was stationed for the past eleven years. He came from Ireland thirty years ago, joining the police force at Christchurch and serving at.Greymouth, Wellington, Woodville, Hastings and St John’s before his transfer to the King Country. He leaves a widow, two sons and one daughter. Mr C. Roberts, of the head office in Auckland, has been appointed clerk of the Court at Onehunga and Otahuhu. Hitherto the clerical work of both Courts has been done by the sergeant in charge, but, as their duties have increased in both civil and criminal departments, they have been granted relief by this new appointment. Sergeant Parsons, who has just retired, held the position at Otahuhu for three years, and Sergeant J. A. Cruickshank has acted in that capacity for over seven years at Onehunga.