PERSONALS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18419, 22 March 1928, Page 8

PERSONALS

Mr W. A. Malone, special representative of First National Pictures, is in Christchurch in connection with .the presentation of “King of Kings.” Messrs A. G. Henderson, J. S. Ross and R. A. Anderson arrived this morning from the north by the ferry steamer. Mr T. A. Sladdin, who since 1926 has been assistant lecturer in the School of Architecture at Auckland University College, has resigned. Dr A. J.. Brass, 1 assistant medical officer at Apia, has been appointed to a position in the Cook Islands. Dr Brass, who returned by the Tofua, will visit his home town, Invercargill. Dr C. H. Ruben, assistant medical officer at Nukualofa, who arrived on the Tofua on Monday, will spend fhree months’ holiday in New Zealand. He will be in Dunedin for the greater part of his leave. Mr V. J. Hawke, of the Health Department, Apia, and Mrs Hawke, returned to New Zealand on the Tofua. They will spend some time in New Zealand, and Mr Hawke will visit his home town, Dunedin. Mr S. Whitehurst, 0.8. E., deputy chief engineer at the Jhansi workshops, Great Indian Peninsula Railway, who arrived last week from Australia, is on a tour of New Zealand before proceeding to South Africa, en route to England. Sir Douglas M’Lean has for some years been patron of the Napier Boxing Association, and at the annual meeting of that body in Napier on Saturday night he was unanimously re-elected for the coming year. Reference was made by Sir George Clifford at last night’s meeting of the New Zealand Sheep Breeders’ Association to the death of Mr Robert Reid, who had been a staunch supporter of the association. The meeting carried a vote of condolence with the relatives by standing in silence. Mr H. Miller, head master of the Masterton West School since its inception in 1920, has been promoted to the head mastership of the Hutt Central School. For five years previous to 1920, Mr Miller was first assistant at the Berhampore School, Wellington. Mr E. B. Parsons was a passenger by the R.M.S. Arawa, which left Wellington for England on Saturday. Recently Mr Parsons retired from the service of the Wellington Gas Company after twenty-nine years. Mr Parsons is bound for his old home in Hayle, Cornwall, where he intends to reside for about a year before returning to Plimmerton.

It is announced that Major-General Sir Brudenell White will assume, as from July 1, the joint office df chair, man of the local board of directors and superintendent for Australia of the New Zeaand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, succeeding, as chairman, Mr J. Newman Barker, who has expressed his desire to relinquish that post, but who will remain upon the board as deputy-chairman (states a Wellington Press Association message). Mr Walter F. Lawry, chief inspector for Australia, after service with the company of fifty-eight years, will retire on June 30. Mr Herbert J. Green will succeed him. Mr Rupert Greene, wool adviser to the company in Australia, will assume additional duties in respect of the wool and mercantile business.

Sir Joseph Ward, M.P., was a passenger by last night’s ferry from the north. Reference is made to the death of Mr G. A. James, one of the members of the Canterbury Rugby Referees’ Association, in the association’s annual report. Mr H. W. Kitchingham has been appointed West Coast representative on the council of the Royal Agricultural Society. In the annual report of the Christchurch Hunt Club sympathetic mention was made of the death of two members. Mr Frank Egan, who was one of the founders of the club, and Mr A. J. Keith, one of its keenest supporters. The death of Mr J. W. Byrch was referred to at the annual meeting of the Corriedale Society last night, and members stood for a brief space in silence out of respect to the former member. Subject to formal confirmation by the controlling authority, Mr E. B. Ellerm, who for some years past has acted as librarian and museum curator at the New Plymouth Carnegie Institute, has been appointed librarian at the Leys Institute, Auckland. Mr T. W. Pilcher, assistant manager of the Atlas Assurance Company, Ltd., Wellington, who has been with the company since it started operations in New Zealand twenty-two and a half years ago, is retiring on superannuation on April 30. Mr Pilcher has had fortyfour years’ experience of insurance. A motion of condolence with the widow and family of the late Mr Robert Reid, of Darfield, was carried at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Sheepbreeders’ Association last night. The president (Sir George Clifford) said that the late Mr Reid had been a member of the council since the foundation of the association, and held the position of vice-chairman of the association from 3919 till the time of his death. He had taken a very keen interest in the work of the association, and was a good friend to breeders. Mr E. R. C. Bowen, an old and highly respected resident of Napier and district, died at Napier on Sunday at the age of eighty-seven years. Mr Bowen arrived in New Zealand sixty-one years ago for the benefit of his health, and joined the Customs Department at Hokitika in 1866. He was stationed in the service of the Department successively at Invercargill, Wellington (1881), and Dunedin, and in 1892 was appointed Collector of Customs at Napier, holding that position until his retirement earh r in 1907. He was a man of high integrity, and was much respected in commercial circles. Mr Bowen, who was a cousin of the late Sir C. C. Bowen, leaves a widow (a daughter of the late Mr William Seed, at one time also Collector of Customs at Napier), and two daughters, Mrs J. A. M’Lean (Porangahau) and Miss Elsie Bowen (Wellington). Ilis only son died as a prisoner of war in Turkey.

The officers and men of the Southern Depot N.Z.M.C- met last night to bid farewell to Major F. J.. Barrie, their former commanding officer, who has been appointed Assistant Director Medical Services in the South Island. Captain W. H. Simpson, in presenting Major Borrie with an enlarged photograph of the unit, expressed the esteem in which Major Borrie was held by both officers and men, and offered him their best wishes for the future. Major Borrie suitably responded.