PERSONAL ITEMS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXI, Issue 2485, 20 December 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tlio death is announced of Dr Camille Saint-Saens, the famous French musical composer.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

Dr J. A. Thomson and Mr B. C. Aston have been appointed members of the Board of Governors of the New 1 Zealand Institute.

Chief-Detective P. McMahon, formerly stationed at Auckland, has been transferred to Ashburton.

Mr Justice Herdman, accompanied by Mrs Herdman, are on their w r ay to Rotorua and Taupo for the Christmas holidays. Their Excellencies the GovernorGeneral and Viscountess Jellieoe have taken Mr H. Elworthy’s house at Pareora, near Tinraru, for several months, and will spend the Christmas holidays there.

Mr Arthur Ward, manager of the Palmerston North branch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., has been promoted to be manager of the firm’s Hamilton branch.

Messrs C. Muirliead, C. C. Brunskill, A. R. Dunning, P. Muirliead, J. C. Brunskill, and J. R. S. Richardson have been declared elected as trustees of the Whitehall Rabbit Board.

Mr A. Heine, 8.A., of the teachingstair of the Wellington College,- has resigned his position, and retires at an early date on superannuation. He has been teaching at the college since April, 1882, and for the last thirty years has been first assistant.

Mr Ernest Coates, son of Mr I. Coates, of Hamilton, whose death occurred recently, was engaged in surveying in British North Borneo, for the British Government, and met his death through fever contracted in the course of his work.

The deaths are recorded of Mr Thos. GV Field, a well-known grain-merchant of Christchurch; Mr Alexander Scott, a Dunedin warehouseman, aged 55, under an anaesthetic; and Miss Elizabeth Collins of ‘ Morrinsville, aged 27, after a dental anaesthetic.

Professor D. B. Copland, of the University of Tasmania, has arrived in Tima'ru on furlough, having been in a bad state of health during recent months. Professor Copland is recuperating in Now Zealand and expects to resume his duties at the end of February. Some fifty members and friends of the local railway staff assembled at the Oddfellows’ Hall on Saturday evening to'bid farewell to Mr W. J. Cameron, who is about to retire from the Department on superannuation after having completed forty years' service. During •the greater part, of that period Mr Cameron has been employed as a driver —a position he has held with distinction at Kingston, Lumsden, Balelutha, Oamaru, Upper Hutt. Kotorua, Auckland, and latterly at Cambridge. Mr A. Henderson, the stationmaster, during the evening presented the guest of the evening with a handsome travelling rug and a pipe, in addition to a handbag for Mrs Cameron. Appropriate and happy speeches were also made by Messrs Maloney, Eadford, - Skinnei and Clough (Frankton), and Messrs Montgomery, Crawford and Morgan, hearty cheers being given for Mr Cameron before the company dispersed. Enjoyable musical items were contributed by Messrs Barnett (Hamilton), Whelan, Clough and Eadford (Frankton). C. Cameron jr. and W. J. Cameron, .Skivington, A. Hooper, F. Baker and A. Wilkinson.