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Wairarapa Age, 12 July 1921, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mrs Bree, of Otaki, is visiting her daughter, Mrs G. H. Scholefield, in Masterton.

Mr E. F. Hawthorne, chief clerk of the Justice Department, Wellington, has been elected to fill the vacancy on the Public Service Board of Appeal.

The late Mrs Richard Cox was another of Auckland’s old identities. She was a daughter of the late Mr and Mrs John Casey, who kept the first native college at Devonport. Sergeant Sweeney, who has been in charge of the Masterton police for about four months, expects to leave for Wellington on Saturday.

The death is announced of MajorGeneral Sir George A. French, former Commandant of the Forces in Queensland and New South Wales.

The health of Mr J. B. Brickell of Cairterton, is causing his relatives great anxiety. Mr Brickell is suffering from a severe attack of pneumonia.

Messrs W. H. Gray and John Martin have been nominated for the extraordinary vacancy on the Martinborough Town Board. The Earl of Craven, who was sitting on the deck of his yacht Sylvia

while moored at Cowes, fell overboard during the night and was drowned. Mr A. D. Munro of Christchurch, has been appointed senior demonstrator and assistant lecturer iu the chemical laboratory of Victoria College, Wellington.

On the retirement of Mr A. P. Hopkins, works superintendent of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company, to reside in Auckland, the Board of Directors expressed their appreciation of his long service of over 32 years. Mr Harold Carr, for many years Registrar of the Native Land Court at Gisborne, has been promoted to he Acting-Judge. He will act at Rotorua for some months in place of Judge Ayson, who has gone to the Islands.

The Rev. Daniel Duffin has been nominated by the Dunedin Presbytery as moderator for the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Old settlers will regret to hear of the death of Mr Charles Madden, of Eltham, which occurred recently. The late Mr Madden, who was an uncle of Mr R. B. Madden, of West Taratahi, resided in the Wairarapa as a young man, and was highly respected. Mr John Patterson, senr.. of Taumutu, Canterbury, who is dead, was born in County Down, Ireland, 84 years ago, and came to New Zealand in the ship Cardigan Castle, in 1877. He lived at Lakeside for nearly 20 years, and then removed .to Sedgemere. For a number of years he carried the mail from Leeston to Taumutu.

MrT. U. Wells, M.A., head Master of Richmond Road Public School (Auckland), has been selected by the executive of the New Zealand Educational Institute and the Department of Education to represent New Zealand at the Teaehcrs’ Associations to be held in Toronto, in August. Mr Wells will h ave for Vancouver by the Makura or. the 12th. The conference opens on August 10.

Dr. Charles Chilton, the newly appointed rector of Canterbury College, was one of its earliest students, and has, practically, seen the College grow 'from very small beginnings to its present dimensions. He has occupied the chair of Biology for some years. He was born at Leominster, Herefordshire, in 1860, and was educated at Eyreton, Papanui, and West Christchurch schools, Canterbury College, Otago University, and Edinburgh University. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, Heidelberg, Vienna, and London.