PERSONAL

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18936, 5 December 1929, Page 8

PERSONAL

Colonel and Mrs Barclay arrived from the north this morning. Sir Louis Barnett arrived from the north by this morning’s ferry steamer. Dr R. Ritchie, of Dunedin, returned by the Niagara from a trip abroad. Messrs T. H. Duncan and C. M. Turrell arrived from the north this morning.

Captain Bell and Mr Charles Nathan were passengers from the north on this morning’s ferry steamer. Mr F. W. Rowley, formerly secretary of the Labour Department, left by the Tofua on Saturday on a holiday visit to Fiji. Mr F. J. Niall, of the Hotel workers’ Federation, will be leaving Wellington for Christchurch at the beginning of next year to take up the secretaryship of the Christchurch branch of the federation. Mr H. G. Seccombe, 8.A., son of Mr and Mrs E. H. Seccombe, of Kew, Melbourne, has been selected as the Victorian Rhodes scholar for 1930. Mr Seccombe, who is twenty-one years of age, gained his B.A. degree with honours at the Melbourne University last April. His family has numerous relatives and friends in New Zealand. The death has occurred at Hawera of Lieutenant-Colonel T. C. Sutherland, one of the early residents of Manaia. Lieutenant-Colonel Sutherland suffered a short illness, and recently underwent an operation. He was born in Liverpool sixty-seven years ago, and after receiving his education in France came to New Zealand, his father acquiring 900 acres of land at Manaia at one of the first land sales on the Waimate Plains. For many years Mr Sutherland managed the farm for his father, after whom Sutherland Road, Manaia, was named. Mr Sutherland took an active part in the volunteer movement, and worked his way to the rank of captain. On the introduction of the compulsory training system he was appointed an officer in the Queen Alexandra Mounted Rifles, to which he was attached until his retirement about five years ago, after having attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. During the Great War Lieutenant-Colonel Sutherland participated in various staff duties. He !5 av s? awidow and one daughter, Mrs ft,' ' K " v* ac Leod. A son who was on the military staff in India died some years ago.

Mr W. H. Dixon, L.R.A.M., A.R.C.M., has been appointed adjudicator of the musical section, at the Hawera competitions to be held on August next. Captain M. W. Buckley, O.C. Wigram Aerodrome, returned from the West Coast last evening after making a tour for the purpose of inspecting possible landing grounds. Mr R. P. Furness, of the “ Marlborough Express,” arrived in Christchurch yesterday, and goes on to Dunedin to-day to attend the quarterly meeting of the South Island Motor Union. Mr A. Shelton, chief postmaster at New Plymouth, has been appointed to succeed Mr A. Dawson as chief postmaster at Palmerston North. Mr Shelton was formerly superintendent of mails at Wellington. Mr. H. W. Richards, shipping manager in Australia for Dalgety and Co., Ltd., arrived at Auckland by the Niagara on his return from a business trip to Britain and the United States. Mr Richards will spend ten days in New Zealand. The Admiralty has announced that Mr A. W. Johns, C.8.E., Deputy-Direc-tor of Naval Construction, has been appointed Director of Naval Construction in succession to Sir William Berry, K.C.8., who has retired, says an Official Wireless message. Viscount and Viscountess Craigavon, who are at present fishing and sightseeing in the Taupo district, and intend to visit a number of farming districts in Taranaki and elsewhere, are expected to arrive in Wellington about January 31. The Rev G. E. Moreton has resigned his position in connection with social work in the Diocese of Dunedin in order to accept an appointment in the Auckland Diocese as prison chaplain and assistant city missioner on the staff of the Auckland City Mission. Mr Moreton recently returned from a tour abroad with the Boy Scouts who attended the Imperial Jamboree. The Soldiers’ Rehabilitation Commission, consisting of Mr J. S. Barton, S.M., chairman, Sir John Luke and Mr S. J. Harrison, concluded its Christchurch sitting yesterday, and left for the north last night. To-day the Commission will hear evidence in Wellington. Yesterday the members visited Mr W. R. Webb’s flower gardens at Mount Pleasant, and in the afternoon they paid

visits to Bunting and Co.’s factory and Weston Bros.’ factory. Brigadier Sidney A. Church and Mrs Church, of the Salvation Army, formerly of Canada, have arrived in Wellington. Brigadier Church is the new editor of the “ War Cry." For almost the entire period of his twenty-four years’ service as an Army officer, he has been engaged in editorial work. He began his career as a helper in the Fjeld Secretary’s Department at Toronto, but was appointed after a few months to assist the editor at that period. Under successive editors he served in that same department for seventeen years, until his appointment as editor-in-chief of the Canada West publications in 1923. Four years later he returned to Toronto to occupy the position that had been so worthily filled by his predecessors, all of whom, save one, he had served under since 1905. From Toronto the Brigadier was appointed by General E. J. Higgins to the position of editor-in-chief in New Zealand, with headquarters at Wellington.